To have only realised after THIRTY FIVE years that George Michael wasn't planning on a golden solo?!

[WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles]

Yes, I may as well share this with MN as it cheered DH up so much this morning...

I have only just realised (embarrassingly whilst singing this in earshot of DH ) that in Wake me you before you go go, George Michael wasn't actually singing "I'm not planning on a golden solo" and instead he just didn't want to be going solo

(disclaimer: I was young when this song came out! I assumed a golden solo he meant he didn't want to be in the spotlight - having written that down I realise how fucking stupid it sounds )

Also, he wasn't singing Cherrybug in this song either. Well who knew? (According to DH - everyone)

I'm dying a little inside here.

Don't worry OP, I'm as naive as you are. I thought for years and years that Chain Reaction was about charity work in a war zone...

She wanted to be taken somewhere with no starvation (salvation), then lots of things about explosions, medals, being lost in action, crying and dying. But she kept talking about love to try to stop the fighting.

In fairness, I was probably 11 or 12 when I first heard it, so it's probably just as well I didn't understand it!

I remember thinking what a horrible person Rick Astley must be as I sang along to:

"And then I'm gonna give you up
Then I'm gonna let you down,
Then I'm gonna run around ... etc"

To my eternal shame I was about 30 when I realised

I thought it was a combination of a wank and a golden shower.