GEORGE Michael would be "beside himself" after Wham!'s Last Christmas Yesterday finally became the Christmas No1 - 39 years after first being denied it.
The song was famously kept off the top spot in 1994 by Band-Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?
But nearly four decades on, the festive favourite hit the top seven years after its writer George's death.
His pal and Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley, 60, said: "Last Christmas has finally ascended to the much cherished and sought-after Official Christmas No1, which was always the main goal.
"George would be beside himself [that] after all of these years, [we've] finally obtained Christmas No1. Yog [George] said that he wrote Last Christmas with the intention of writing a Christmas Nol.
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