They met over one of their favourite pastimes: a game of Scrabble. Andrew Ridgeley, best…
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Footage of George Michael’s first-ever TV performance with Wham! shows the 19-year-old singer was a natural showman from the very beginning.
Teenage George, who at the time was a part-time DJ by night and a cinema attendant by day, seemed like he’d performing for years as he sang ‘Wham Rap’ and ‘Young Guns’ on TV for the first time.
Joined on stage by bandmate Andrew Ridgeley and singers Dee C. Lee and Shirlie Holliman, George stunned the audience with the accomplished performance that eventually got Wham! spotted by the producers of Top Of The Pops.
George Michael: Freedom Uncut — which the singer was still working on at the time of…
Written by George Michael when the star was just 21 years old, ‘Last Christmas’ is still the world’s favourite Christmas song more than three decades after its release, becoming the first number one in the charts of 2021 after an impressive 9.2 million streams over the past week.
Melanie Panayiotou, the younger sister of pop icon George Michael, died on Christmas Day, exactly three years…
