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8th December 2024

Warning: clicking on the video link will play "Last Christmas" by Wham! Do not do so if you want to avoid losing Whamageddon and being sent to Whamhalla. It's an unbelievable 40 years since Wham! released their Christmas Number 1, and the snowy mountain village where it was filmed is cashing in. Saas-Fee in the Valais in Switzerland is keen to get tourists along and this article in the Financial Times tells all. "Visitors who come to schuss down its 150km of pistes will also discover guided Wham! walks, Wham! cocktails, Wham! parties and, in the town’s museum, alongside 19th-century weaving looms, beds, dresses and ice axes, a new exhibition on the pop group’s stay in the Swiss Alps four decades ago." The video was shot in late November for a December release, even though the song was recorded in August. The ride in the cable car, only lasted for 50 metres, before they came down again. But normally it goes up to the start of the world’s highest funicular rail...