Young Guns (Go for It)

"Young Guns (Go for It)" (mostly written with an exclamation mark as "Young Guns (Go for It!)") was a song by British pop duo Wham! which was released in 1982 on Innervision Records. It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo.

The song was Wham!'s first hit, although it came with some help from the BBC music programme Top of the Pops, which invited Wham! on to the show as a last-minute replacement for another act which had pulled out. It helped that the producer of Top of the Pops had seen them previously on another programme: Saturday Superstore.^[1] Wham! were just outside the Top 40 threshold of the UK Singles Chart at the time, which meant they had not climbed high enough in normal circumstances to get on the show, but they were recruited nonetheless as the highest-placed artists still climbing the charts from outside the 40.

The song entered the chart initially at Number 73, went up to Number 48, then dropped to Number 52 and the week after that, it jumped to Number 42.^[1] Their appearance on Top of the Pops broke the record wide open and on the following Monday the distribution centre received some thirty thousand orders.^[1] This sent the record to Number 24 before eventually peaking at Number 3 in November 1982.

George wrote the song about a teenage lad's worry that his best friend was getting too committed to a girl when he should have been enjoying his youth and the single life. It featured a middle eight aside in which the girl conversely tried to get her boyfriend to ditch the best friend, prompting a vocal battle, akin to a tug of war, between the girlfriend and the best friend which prompted the "go for it!" aspect of the song, as featured in the title.

On Top of the Pops, George mimed the vocals to his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley, who "acted" the part of the teenage bridegroom-in-waiting. They were flanked by backing singers Dee C. Lee and Shirlie Holliman.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by George Michael.

7": Innervision / IVL A2766 (UK)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Young Guns (Go for It)"	3:40
2.	"Going for It"	3:40

12": Innervision / IVL A13 2766 (UK)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Young Guns (Go for It)" (12" Version)	5:10
2.	"Going for It"	3:40

12": Columbia/Innervision 44-03501 (US)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Young Guns (Go for It)"	6:53
2.	"Going for It!"	4:49

"Going for It" is an instrumental version of "Young Guns (Go for It)"

Chart performance

Chart (1982/3)	Peak position
Sweden	1
Norway	10
Australia	4
UK^[2]	3

References

1 2 3 Bare by George Michael and Tony Parsons, Penguin Books, 1991. Page 83 ISBN 0-14-013235-X
↑ - The Official Charts (Wham!) Retrieved January 8, 2016

Wham!

George Michael Andrew Ridgeley

Studio albums	Fantastic Make It Big Music from the Edge of Heaven

Compilations	The Final If You Were There (The Best of Wham)

Singles	"Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" "Young Guns (Go for It!)" "Bad Boys" "Club Tropicana" "Club Fantastic Megamix" "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" "Careless Whisper" "Freedom" "Everything She Wants" "Last Christmas" "I'm Your Man" "The Edge of Heaven" "Where Did Your Heart Go?"

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Alcazar

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Studio albums	Casino Alcazarized Disco Defenders

Other albums	Dancefloor Deluxe A Tribute to ABBA Disco Defenders: Greatest Hits

Singles	"Shine On" "Ritmo Del Amor" "Crying at the Discoteque" "Sexual Guarantee" "Don't You Want Me" "Not a Sinner nor a Saint" "Ménage à Trois" "Someday" "Love Life" "This Is the World We Live In" "Physical" "Here I Am" "Alcastar" "Start the Fire" "We Keep on Rockin'" "Inhibitions" "Stay the Night" "Burning" "From Brazil with Love" "Last Christmas" "Headlines" "Blame It on the Disco" "Good Lovin" "Young Guns (Go for It)"

Featured singles	"Feel 4 U"

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