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A more complete and fully realised second demo was recorded on 24 March 1982 at Halligan Band Centre, Holloway, London with a backing band and a saxophone riff. This second demo also included the songs "Club Tropicana" and "Wham Rap!".[22] However, on the same day, Michael and Ridgeley were called over by Dean to sign a contract in addition to the record deal, which they did at a nearby greasy spoon caf. Michael recalls of that day:

After the backing track and George's vocal had been recorded, Wexler had booked the top saxophone player from Los Angeles to fly in and do the solo.[25] "He arrived at eleven and should have been gone by twelve", recalled Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell. "Instead, after two hours, he was still there while everyone in the studio shuddered with embarrassment. He just couldn't play the opening riff the way George wanted it, the way it had been on the demo. But that had been made two years earlier by a friend of George's who lived round the corner and played sax for fun in the pub."[25]

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But while we know lots about the people who sing those songs, and a fair amount about the people who write them (assuming they're not one and the same), the crack-shot session musicians whose contributions make everything fly are rarely celebrated, and this, as our first example serves to prove, appears to be especially true if they play the saxophone.

Hit songs have a habit of creating arguments, and Baker Street, one of 1978's biggest songs, is no exception. There's disagreement over whether the immortal fanfare at the start of the song was written by Gerry Rafferty or made up in the studio. There's disagreement over who actually played that saxophone solo, and even some disagreement over whether the melody was inspired by another song entirely.

Early Gerry Rafferty demos do contain that soaring melody played on a guitar, which appears to have been influenced by the opening refrain of a jazz tune called Half a Heart by saxophonist Steve Marcus. Gerry brought in saxophone ace Raphael Ravenscroft to play it, although Raphael would later claim to have made the tune up on the spot. Further muddying the waters, Stuart Maconie would later write a spoof music factoid in the NME claiming that the sax part had been played by Blockbusters host Bob Holness, which was widely repeated as the truth.

The saxophone solo that kicks off George Michael's immaculate first solo single is every bit as iconic as the one in Baker Street. It's an arresting melody, written by George himself, and one that proved so difficult to capture to his satisfaction that he auditioned 10 saxophonists, all of whom struggled to play all the notes with the right amount of fluidity and still breathe. Session ace Steve Gregory was the last to try, and even he struggled to meet George's demands, so engineer Chris Porter slowed the tape down, allowing him a little space to finish the job.

Bud was already a well-established performer by the time he was asked to contribute to the song, having first made a name for himself as a part of a relaxed, melodic West Coast jazz scene. His dalliance with the flute was only temporary, and his principal instrument was the alto sax. Always keen to explore other musical textures, he dabbled in Brazilian-influenced jazz in the early 1950s with Laurindo Almeida and Indian-influenced jazz in the early 1960s with Ravi Shankar. Later still he could be found adding saxophone and flute to Joni Mitchell's The Hissing of Summer Lawns.

Arnaud Delannoy impressively offers 100 ways to hear Wham!'s "Careless Whisper" lick. Starting with the piano, the French musician plays the familiar melody on 99 other instruments, just not the song's original saxophone. ff782bc1db