In the spring of 1984, Neil Tennant – then in his pre–Pet Shop Boys guise as a music journalist – popped down to Miami to see what the boys in Wham! were up to. During breaks from a music video shoot in a sunlight-dappled hotel room (it would turn out to be the clip for the mega-successful "Careless
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