When Wham!’s Andrew Ridgeley first heard George Michael give ... Michael was a one-man band, playing a synthesizer, drum machine and sleigh bells in addition to singing all the vocals.

1980s pop duo Wham!; Andrew Ridgeley, right, became ‘the undeserving butt of many jokes for the crime of being less talented than George Michael’ Photo: PA This continued long after the band ...

Smash hit festive song, Last Christmas, was written in “an hour” by the late George Michael, according to the surviving member of Wham!, Andrew Ridgeley ... charts by the Band-Aid single ...

While promoting the documentary, Wham!'s Andrew Ridgeley, who formed the group in ... Last Christmas was famously beaten to number one in 1984 by Band Aid’s charity single Do They Know It ...

In 1984 Wham! were a band riding high. Following the success of their debut album Fantastic in 1983, the band went on to Make It Big with an album of the same name in 1984 and a global tour ...

George Michael, who died in 2016, still sees his estate pull in an incredible sum of money every single week thanks to his music and the success of his Netflix show.

legacy for the fans. “Fame is a bit of a burden, but it’s not the worst hardship in the world and I understand it would be irresponsible not to be the representative for Wham! because I was in the ...

Wham's “Last Christmas” reaches a new peak on several Billboard charts at once, and that success ... [+] pushes it back to its all-time high on the Hot 100. Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael ...

Wham!'s Last Christmas has become the UK's Christmas number one for a second consecutive year. George Michael and Andrew ... Ridgeley said he was "especially pleased" for his late band-mate ...

The estate of the late George Michael - who died in December 2016 - raked in an astonishing £292,424-a-week in the past two years, accounts show ...