Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham!

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 14

Form: Intro → Verse → Bridge → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Bridge → Chorus → Interlude → Solo → Bridge → Instrumental → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• G7 – C7
  V7 – I7

Verse 1

• C – Dm (×2)
  I – ii
• C
  I

Bridge 1

• Dm7 – Em7 – F – Em7 – Dm7 – Em7 – F – G
  ii7 – iii7 – IV – iii7 – ii7 – iii7 – IV – V

Chorus 1

• C – Dm (×3)
  I – ii
• C – Em – Dm – C
  I – iii – ii – I

Interlude 1

• C7 – F/C (×2)
  I7 – IV⁶₄
• C7
  I7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Chorus 2

• C – Dm (×3)
  I – ii
• C – Em – Dm
  I – iii – ii

Interlude 2

Same chords as Interlude 1.

Solo

• C – Dm (×2)
  I – ii
• C
  I

Bridge 3

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Instrumental

• C – Dm (×2)
  I – ii
• C
  I

Chorus 3

• C – Dm (×4)
  I – ii
• C
  I

Outro

• C – Dm (×7)
  I – ii
• C
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to F/C.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0542, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.