In subsequent years, the song reached the middle echelons of the UK Singles Chart on a regular basis (excluding 1985, 1986, 2016, 2017, 2018, 20 when the song reached the upper echelons of the chart) Also shows number of weeks spent in the UK Singles Chart top 100. Wham! donated all "Last Christmas/Everything She Wants" royalties to the Ethiopian famine. 1 single " Do They Know It's Christmas?", while Wham!'s offering peaked at No. However, the Band Aid single written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, produced the No. 1 in early December with " The Power of Love". 1 spot in the UK seemed set to be between Wham! and the year's other big act, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who had achieved a third No. Wham! already had two Number One songs in the 1984 UK Singles Chart and news that they were planning a Christmas single meant that a battle for the coveted Christmas No. According to Porter, lyrically "you've got the happiness of the rhythm track, but against that you've got the sadness of the unrequited love". The only people in the studio were engineer Chris Porter and two assistants. With a Linn 9000 drum machine, a Roland Juno-60 synth and sleigh bells, they began recording the song in the summer. George Michael wrote, performed, produced and played every single instrument on the track. The song was recorded in August 1984, at Advision Studios, London, England. Michael played Ridgeley the introduction and chorus melody to "Last Christmas", which Ridgeley later called "a moment of wonder". It was written by Michael in his childhood bedroom. I limit the dates to month and year because of apparent discrepancies and confusions that sometimes arise from attempting to be more precise than that."Last Christmas" had its beginnings in 1984, while George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were visiting Michael's parents. (I do allow two exceptions to this rule, however, for a pair of songs that I regard as exceptional cases: " Hallo Spaceboy" and " I'm Love with a German Film Star.") Songs in which only one of the Boys was involved are also excluded. But songs neither written nor performed by PSB are not included, even if the recordings under consideration were produced or remixed by them. (For the purposes of this chronology, I'm treating " All or Nothing" and " Diddly Squat" as two different songs, despite their having essentially the same music, by virtue of their differing titles, lyrics, and songwriting credits.) Songs that they didn't write or co-write but did record, indicated with the symbol § following the title, are included only as of when their own version was released, even if they had previously produced some other artist's version of it. Songs first released by other artists but written (or co-written) by the Boys are included as well as songs that they recorded and released under their own name but didn't write. Only distinct songs count, not different versions of songs (such as remixes). The following table lists, in chronological order, the very first official ("authorized") appearance of every Pet Shop Boys song (unofficial "bootleg" releases don't count) in audio (non-video) format, whether as a single, single b-side, or album cut.
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