In 1974, at Bushey Meads School in Hertfordshire, England, a 12-year-old Andrew Ridgeley met Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, ...

HONG KONG — The concert was set to be small but significant: the first by an all-Korean K-pop band in mainland China after an unofficial ban on such shows for almost a decade. That was exciting news ...

Andrew Ridgeley looks back on Wham!’s groundbreaking China tour in new documentary film Wham! 10 Days in China.

Andrew Ridgeley, band manager Simon Napier-Bell, and director Mike Christie break down the challenge of documenting the chaotic concert series.

The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired ...

Wham! was the first Western pop act to perform in communist China in 1985. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Japanese members of some K-pop bands have been absent from recent concerts in China. Experts say that’s linked to tension between Tokyo and Beijing. By John Yoon Reporting from Seoul See more of our ...

China, which has never officially acknowledged the ban, has more confidence in its own entertainment now and is looking to boost consumer spending, experts say. The concert was set to be small but ...