Īndrew Ridgeley came up with the chord sequence on his Fender Telecaster he had received for his 18th birthday. "Careless Whisper" was us dancing, because we danced a lot, and the idea was – we are dancing. I did feel guilty about the first girl – and I have seen her since – and the idea of the song was about her. The whole time I thought I was being cool, being this two-timer, but there really wasn't that much emotion involved. Jane found out about her and got rid of me. But I started another relationship with a girl called Alexis without finishing the one with Jane. The whole idea of "Careless Whisper" was the first girl finding out about the second – which she never did. And I remember my sisters used to give me a hard time because they found out and they really liked the first girl. I thought I was being smart – I had gone from being a total loser to being a two-timer. So I went out with her for a couple of months but I didn't stop seeing Helen. "And the girl who didn't even see me when I was twelve invited me in", he noted. Michael observed that after he stopped wearing glasses, he began getting invited to parties. She invited me in one day when I was waiting for my lift and I was. By this time she was that much older and a big buxom thing – and eventually I started seeing her. Then we played a school disco with The Executive and she saw me singing and decided she fancied me. It was a few years later and I looked a lot different. And one day I saw her walk down the path next to me and I thought – now where did SHE come from? She didn't know it was me. She had moved in right next to where I used to stand and wait for my next-door neighbour, who used to give me a lift home from school. It had just started to cool off a bit when I discovered that the blonde girl from Queensway had moved in just around the corner from my school. "A few years later, when I was sixteen, I had my first relationship with a girl called Helen", Michael continued. My sister used to go and do what she wanted when we got to the skating rink and I would spend the afternoon swooning over this girl Jane." I was a fat boy in glasses and I had a big crush on her - though I didn't stand a chance. "There was a girl there with long blond hair whose name was Jane. "When I was twelve, thirteen, I used to have to chaperone my sister, who was two years older, to an ice rink at Queensway in London," he explained. I worked on it for about three months in my head." I remember I was handing the money over to the guy on the bus and I got this line, the sax line. It always happens on journeys.With "Careless Whisper" I remember exactly where it first came to me, where I came up with the sax line. I have always written on buses, trains and in cars. Michael wrote, "I was on my way to DJ at the Bel Air when I wrote "Careless Whisper". Michael explained in his autobiography, Bare, that he conceptualized "Careless Whisper" based on events from his childhood. In 1981, Michael was working as a DJ in the Bel Air restaurant near Bushey, Hertfordshire. Problems playing this file? See media help. The composition features a distinctive tenor sax solo performed by Steve Gregory.