By Ann Powers, Times Staff Writer
"Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" (by Wham!)
Admit it, you love this pina colada-flavored romp. Aretha Franklin did: after she heard it, she asked Michael to write and produce her next record. “I was 20, and way too scared,” Michael recalled. He got up the nerve to duet with the Queen in 1987, on the No. 1 hit, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me).”
