Wham! George & Me: Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller - Softcover

Ridgeley, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241385822 ISBN 13: 9780241385821

Publisher: Penguin, 2020

Synopsis

Celebrate 40 years of WHAM! with the Sunday Times bestseller from one half of the world's most famous bands

'I couldn't put it down. Such a fantastic book' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio
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School mates. Band mates. Soul mates . . .

When Andrew Ridgley took George Michael, the new boy at school, under his wing, he discovered a soul mate.

In Wham! George and Me, Andrew tells the story of how they rode a rollercoaster of success around the world while making iconic records and surviving superstardom with their friendship intact. It is a memoir of love, music, the flamboyant 1980s and living in a pop hurricane.

No one else can ever tell their story - because no one else was there . . .

Forty years on from their explosion into pop music, Andrew Ridgeley tells the inside story of Wham!, his life-long friendship with George Michael and the formation of a band that changed music.
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'A joyous celebration of the Wham! years. For anyone who was a teenager in the early 1980s, it will take you on a nostalgia trip. It's an honest but affectionate account of a remarkable duo who remained true to their origins and their friendship throughout it all' Daily Express

'As infectious as their music' Daily Mirror

'A remarkably generous memoir. In more than one sense, the biography of a friend' Spectator

'A great story' Saturday Live, Radio 4

'A lovely book. A love letter to George' Graham Norton, BBC One

'Charming, heartfelt . . . there's a real poignancy to Ridgeley's description of Wham!'s glory days' Sunday Times

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Ridgeley is one of the most recognisable faces of the eighties. He was one half of the phenomenal pop duo, WHAM!, one of the biggest names in the history of pop music. Born in Surrey, England, he grew up in Bushey, Hertfordshire where he met George Michael whilst attending Bushey Meads School; they struck up an easy friendship - both having a common interest in music - before forming WHAM! The band sold multi-platinum albums and singles globally, having number 1 hits all over the world including both the UK and the US.
Andrew now pursues a variety of interests, significant amongst which is fundraising for The Dallaglio RugbyWorks Charity. He splits his time between his homes in Cornwall and London.

From the Back Cover

1974, Watford, and two teenagers, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (George Michael) and Andrew John Ridgeley, meet for the first time. It isn't football or fashion or girls that bring them together (actually, girls: yes). Instead, they soon discover that they are both mad about music. Together they set out to follow an impossible dream, rooted in their shared love of records, the artists that made them and the sheer joy of pop. They didn't know it then but they were taking their first steps towards forming Wham! - soon to become the biggest band in the world. Now, for the very first time, Andrew Ridgeley tells that story.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241385822
• ISBN 13: 9780241385821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400