Ep. - 715 - WHAM! ON NETFLIX PRODUCER SIMON HALFON
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Simon Halfon, producer of Wham! on Netflix. In 1982, the best of friends and still teenagers - George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley as WHAM! set out to conquer the world. By June of 1986 they played their very last gig at Wembley Stadium having done exactly that. Now for the very first time, told in their own words, the amazing story of how in four years they dominated the charts around the world with timeless and classic pop songs.
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| 0:24.6 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life at Key Casey. I hope that you've had a great week. |
| 0:30.0 | I have to say, to know me is to know that I love 80s music. My older sister listened to 80s music |
| 0:35.8 | all the time and I just became obsessed. I've often thought if I had to live in another era, |
| 0:41.1 | I probably should have lived in England in the 1980s because I just love all of that music. |
| 0:47.2 | Imagine how excited I was when Netflix announced they had a documentary about the band WAM. |
| 0:53.6 | WAM was an English pop duo formed in England in 1981. The duo consisted of George Michael |
| 0:59.9 | and Andrew Ridgley. They became one of the most commercially successful pop acts of the 1980s, |
| 1:05.8 | selling more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. So in four years, |
| 1:13.0 | they sold 30 million albums. They were influenced by funk and soul music and presented themselves |
| 1:18.6 | as disaffected youth. Their 1983 debut album Fantastic addressed the UK's unemployment problem |
| 1:25.7 | and teen angst over adulthood. Their second studio album Make It Big in 1984 was a worldwide |
| 1:32.1 | pop smash hit, charting at number one in both the UK and the US. They were associated with the MTV |
| 1:37.7 | driven, second British invasion of the US. The singles from the album included Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. |
| 1:45.0 | Everything She Wants and Careless Whisper, they all topped the US Billboard Hot 100. |
| 1:51.1 | In 1985, WAM made a highly publicized 10-day visit to China. It was the first by a Western pop group |
| 1:58.4 | and the event was seen as a major watershed moment in increasing friendly bilateral relations |
| 2:04.0 | between China and the West. So selling more than 30 million albums and having this incredible |
| 2:10.0 | moment in history and all done in four years. Eventually George Michael was keen to start his own |
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