Last Christmas (soundtrack)

Last Christmas: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 2019 film Last Christmas directed by Paul Feig. It was released on 8 November 2019 by Legacy Recordings, on the date of the film's release. The album contains songs that are performed by George Michael and with Andrew Ridgeley as Wham!, the album includes 14 existing songs, and a previously unreleased song completed in 2015 called "This Is How (We Want You to Get High)".^[1] The "Last Christmas" Pudding Mix features as a bonus track on the Japanese version. The album charted internationally in 2019 and received positive reviews.^[2]

The movie is based on Michael and Ridgeley's eponymous song released in 1984, and is also inspired from their music.^[3] In an interview with BBC News, the director of the film, Paul Feig, said that before Michael's death in 2016, he was about to compile his new album and Feig discovered an unreleased song "This Is How (We Want You to Get High)" that Michael recorded in 2015, the song was included in the soundtrack, Feig said, "It's a very celebratory song, I would dare say. And we were able to play the entire song, which is almost six minutes long, in the film. Because when you get a song that has never been heard, you don't want to just use, like, 15 seconds of it. The song starts at the end of the film, and then goes into the credits."^[4] David Livingstone, who produced the film, consulted Michael in the past and considered his involvement before his death, referred to the film as "the last sanctioned project he signed off on".^[3][5]