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Wham! were an English pop duo formed in Bushey in 1981 consisting of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] They were one of the most successful pop acts during the 1980s, selling more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. [ 5 ]
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter and record producer.Regarded as a pop culture icon, [2] he is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time [3] and was named one of the greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone. [4]
Ridgeley was born in Windlesham, Surrey, [1] to Jennifer Jill (née Dunlop) (1943–2009) and Alberto Mario Zacharia (1933–2015), who later changed his surname to Ridgeley; his mother was of English and Scottish descent and his father was Jewish of Italian, Yemeni and Egyptian descent; his father's family were expelled from Egypt as a result of the Suez Crisis.
One of the best-selling artists of all time, Michael, who rose to fame in the 1980s as part of duo Wham!, died at his home on Christmas Day 2016, aged 53. Late pop idol George Michael returns with ...
‘At that point in time, I really wanted to come out,’ late singer says in Netflix special
Manager Simon Napier-Bell wined and dined more than 140 government officials and campaigned against rivals Queen to make global pop history, even if George Michael later said Wham!'s Beijing ...
Jeffery Deon Estus [1] (July 4, 1956 – October 11, 2021) was an American musician and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as the bassist on George Michael's first two solo projects. Estus' single " Heaven Help Me ", with additional vocals by Michael, reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1989.
The Wham! movie actually makes a strong case that Ridgeley was a key contributor to the group, not the coattails-riding sidekick he was sometimes cruelly made out to be in the press. (“Almost ...