Must Haves. Music Edition. Whan & George Michael.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Michael met Wham!'s different half, Andrew Ridgeley, at college withinside the London suburb of Bushey, and in 1979 they commenced appearing collectively as a part of the ska-primarily based totally band the Executive. When that institution dissolved, they wrote songs, made demos, and rushed right into a recording agreement with the similarly keen unbiased label Innervision, scoring an immediately hit with "Wham Rap!" (they notion that "wham" become the sound they made while Michael and Ridgeley done collectively). In order to transport to a recording agreement with Sony label Epic, Wham! become pressured to stroll farfar from maximum of the royalties from their debut album, Fantastic. None of that mattered while their 1984 single, "Wake Me up Before You Go Go," have become a international hit, followed with the aid of using a video of the pair cavorting of their sportswear. Almost immediately, George Michael commenced contemplating a solo career, and released "Careless Whisper," issued withinside the U.S. as George Michael of Wham! The duo launched into a much-publicized ride to China and loved huge fulfillment in America.

Active1980s

Formed1981 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England

Disbanded1986

Genre

Pop/Rock

Styles

Contemporary Pop/Rock

Adult Contemporary

New Wave

Punk/New Wave

Dance-Pop

Group Members

George Michael

Andrew Ridgeley

HITS

Wake me up before you go go, careless whisper, last christmas, club tropicana, father figure, faith, freedom 90, dont let the sun go down on me

ALBUMS

Fantastic, Make it big, music from the edge of heaven

CULTURAL IMPACT

Wham! sparked some thing of a pop revival withinside the mid-`80s and will arguably be held answerable for sparking off the boy band fashion of the '90s. They have been unashamedly pop, to the factor of padding the the front in their trousers for tv appearances. At the heart, however, become a string of catchy singalong singles written with the aid of using George Michael (born Georgios Kyrriacos Panayiotou in London to a Greek restauranting family).