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

Wham! 10 Days In China' is our Global Breakout as footage reveals the George Michael-led pop duo’s trip and its role in their ...

BTS expressed a wish that ‘music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language’.

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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 ...

A new Wham! documentary explains the surprising motivation behind George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's historic 1985 trip to ...

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

You can blame George Michael’s throat polyps. Back in April 1985, some pesky nodules on the Wham! heartthrob’s windpipe were ...

Grammy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. has responded to K-pop supergroup BTS' decision to boycott the 2027 Grammy Awards over its new ...

The new documentary film, "WHAM! 10 Days in China" tells the story of the band’s landmark 1985 visit to China, spotlighting ...

Ridgeley and bandmate George Michael became the first Western pop act to perform in the Communist country ...

Four decades ago, Wham! became the first Western pop act to perform in Communist China. It was a visit that ​shaped the ...