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Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham career, from '70s best buds to '80s pop icons.Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham career, from '70s best buds to '80s pop icons.Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham career, from '70s best buds to '80s pop icons.
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- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 5 nominations total
Bananarama
- Self
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David Bowie
- Self
- (archive footage)
Boy George
- Self
- (archive footage)
Phil Collins
- Self
- (archive footage)
Helen DeMacque
- Self
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Aretha Franklin
- Self
- (archive footage)
Elton John
- Self
- (archive footage)
Shirlie Kemp
- Self
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Paul McCartney
- Self
- (archive footage)
Freddie Mercury
- Self
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George Michael
- Self
- (archive footage)
Simon Napier-Bell
- Self
- (archive footage)
Kyriacos Panayiotou
- Self
- (archive footage)
Andrew Ridgeley
- Self
- (archive footage)
Wham!
- Themselves
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaIn a 2023 interview with Smooth Radio, Chris Smith spoke about the unexpected way archive material was found and how it shaped the film: "The biggest surprise during the process was realizing that Andrew Ridgeley's mother had these scrapbooks. Those ended up, I think there were 50 in total and were this incredible document that sort of charted the rise and the ultimate conclusion of Wham!. To have those as a guide that we were able to come back to time and time and time again as a narrative device was such an incredible break. And then in terms of the actual archive, the process, it wasn't like we collected everything and then we cut the movie. It was ongoing throughout the entire process. And we had heard that there was this fabled footage that existed from the Club Fantastic tour. And I don't think we found that until like a couple of weeks before we finished. It was something that somebody knew someone who knew someone who had a copy of VHS tape on their shelf. It's much more happenstance than I think people would assume. I think that people would assume that this all exists in one centralized location in George Michael's estate. Andrew had a lot of it, but there were a lot of things that were just sort of floating out there that we were fortunately able to find and pull in."
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George Michael: I always get really shy when there's loads and loads of other pop stars about. I just tend to clam up a bit.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards (2024)
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Thank you to the creators of this documentary and Netflix. In a nutshell, it was so well put together, with George and Andrew telling their story in its raw form - no pretence, no fluff, just the facts. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and then laugh again. It made this fifty-five year old woman re-live her youth. I cried at Careless whisper and Last Christmas, I laughed and danced around the lounge room to Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, trying to re-do the moves of a teenager, with creaking knees and hip joints, until it hurt. It was so worth it. I LOVED IT. For those of you who there back in the 80s and fell in love with the boys from Wham as I did, you will not be disappointed.
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- WHAM!:渾然天成
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