{"id":14597,"date":"2017-10-20T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=14597"},"modified":"2017-10-20T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:12:55","slug":"bid-to-get-george-michael-classic-no-1-a-year-after-he-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/bid-to-get-george-michael-classic-no-1-a-year-after-he-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Bid to get George Michael classic No.1 a year after he died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words: Marija Tomsone | Subbing: Lavinia Petrucci<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wham!\u2019s \u201cLast Christmas\u201d is now the favourite for this year\u2019s festive No.1 with one bookie. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It comes with the campaign to mark exactly a year since George Michael\u2019s death by getting the song to the top of the charts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The odds on George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley\u2019s song being Christmas No.1 has been slashed from 11\/4 to 4\/6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/poppyamadeus\/status\/920791954572611584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dwham%2521%2520last%2520christmas<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is now ahead of The X Factor winner (whoever that will be) in the betting. In the past, there have been several campaigns to stop the talent show winner grabbing the top spot. Despite that, The X Factor winner have topped the chart at Christmas seven times over the past 12 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">George Michael passed away on Christmas Day last year at the age of 53.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other contenders are David Bowie, Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wham! - Last Christmas (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8gmARGvPlI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words: Marija Tomsone | Subbing: Lavinia Petrucci Wham!\u2019s \u201cLast Christmas\u201d is now the favourite for this year\u2019s festive No.1 with one bookie. It comes with the campaign to mark exactly a year since George Michael\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":14635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,52,92],"tags":[1332,2621,6873],"class_list":["post-14597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-music","tag-christmas","tag-george-michael","tag-wham"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}