You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. Comedy is a bit of a dream job really.

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

But you know, I also know that comedy is really

subjective and everyone has different tastes. So we've got a huge range of comedy on offer from

satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about.

So if you fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Vicky Farncombe. I'm taking you back nearly 40 years to when the British band WAM became the first Western

pop act to perform in China.

It's April 1985 and WAM are on stage at the People's Gymnasium in Beijing in China.

Lead singer George Michael is centre stage in a black suit with a

royal blue Cumberband. Behind him is Andrew Ridgeley swinging his guitar

and wearing a red tartan suit.

But something's not right.

George, who was never nervous, ever, ever, and he went on stage and he got stage right.

The band played the introne, he opened his mouth to sing the first line and nothing came out.

Simon Napier Bell, Wams manager, is watching nervously from the VIP box.

And so he danced all on the stage again, clapping and tried again.

It still didn't come out.

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