[2] As they continued to work on the song an ultimatum to Michael from his father inspired the line "Get yourself a job or get out of this house".

[5] Innervision quickly arranged for a proper demo of the song to be recorded at Halligan Band Centre in Holloway (on 24 March 1982)[6] using session musicians on bass and drums, which was then used by Michael and Ridgeley as a backing track for promotional performances at various nightclubs in preparation for their debut release.

[7] Although rap was still an underground and almost exclusively American phenomenon in the early 1980s, Michael rapped—as the title implies—a number of verses about the joys of living every day to the fullest, reveling in unemployment and celebrating government assistance from the Department of Health and Social Security (the initials "DHSS" are repeatedly chanted during the song).

The explicitly political song flew in the face of the conventional British left-wing who were talking about the 'right to work' at the time.

The video shows Michael and Ridgeley as two unemployed youths who were spending their time teaching one another on how to live their life while roaming about the streets of London.

[8] The two are joined by Shirlie Holliman, Dee C. Lee, and their band in front of a white background with red letters reading 'WHAM!'.

were unknown, failed to make any impact and was later re-issued in January 1983 after the duo had achieved their breakthrough with "Young Guns (Go for It)".

Uncharacteristically for Wham!, the Unsocial mix of the song contains multiple repetitions of the swear words "damn", "bullshit", "shit" and "crap".