At face value, Wham!’s No. 1 hit “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” is a straightforward love song. You put the boom-boom into my ...

With its Motown swing and addictive sing-along chorus, Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” was indeed one of those songs, even if band members George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley looked ...

“About six months before … I’d actually had something go on that made my attraction to men fairly clear,” the late Michael reveals via rare footage featured in “Wham! The Documentary ...

literally has the tapes – and then they wrote “Wham Rap!” with a dance routine to go with it and nods to “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang. It was 1981, and Andrew and Yog ...

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Wham! was a British pop duo formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. Known for hits like “Last Christmas” and “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” they defined 1980s pop with ...

The Damned bassist Paul Gray—the former pop idol had also decided to go “rawk.” When compared to Wham!’s music, “It is a lot more aggressive, a little more raw, a more primal kind of ...