- Published: 15 September 2020
- ISBN: 9780241385821
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $26.00
Wham! George & Me
Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller
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- Published: 15 September 2020
- ISBN: 9780241385821
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $26.00
This book is all you could want and more!
Magic Book Club
It's 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, with dozens of comically captioned photos of the band during the white espadrille years. 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
The Wham! star charts his treasured friendship with George Michael, from their meeting at school in 1975 to George's untimely death in 2016. The duo left a legacy of pop classics from the exuberant Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go to the evergreen Last Christmas, and Ridgeley's enthusiasm for life in a chart-topping band is as infectious as their music
Daily Mirror
I couldn't put it down. Such a fantastic book
Chris Evans, Virgin Radio
In this moving memoir, which is also a vivid nostalgia trip for anyone who was a teenager in the 70s and 80s, he tells the story of his friendship and musical collaboration with George Michael. Engaging
Sunday Express
A great story
Saturday Live, Radio 4
A lovely book. A love letter to George
Graham Norton, BBC1
Packed full of nostalgia, heart and insight, Wham! George & Me is a lovingly written ode to friendship and a celebration of one of the greatest pop acts of all time. A superb tribute
Classic Pop Magazine
A touching and vivid nostalgia trip - with great photos
Best
Even before the first page of this charming, heartfelt memoir, Ridgeley's eloquent dedication to his "dearest friend" George Michael will have you in tears. This is more than a gleeful shuttlecocks-in-shorts account of young guns having some fun: there's a real poignancy to Ridgeley's description of Wham!'s glory days, the knowledge of what will be lost - a band, a best friend - chilling in the Club Tropicana sunshine.
The Sunday Times
A touching account of male friendship
The Times
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The Herald
A fond look back at the Wham! star's life in the group that helped define Eighties pop
Choice Magazine
Celebrity Memoirs of the Year
Guardian
Will no doubt appeal to the fanbase . . . Humorous and touching
Times Literary Supplement
Joyful nostalgia
Daily Express
A remarkably generous memoir....in more than one sense, the biography of a friend
Spectator
As a hard-nosed ex-detective, it was a source of much hilarity that I am such a Wham! fan but my copy of this is a prized possession
Peter Bleksley
The long-awaited and lovingly told story of Andrew, George and their time together as WHAM! Wham! were the band that never underestimated the power of pop, nor the healing powers it possessed. In 1981, what started out as a boyhood friendship, catapulted two suburban adolescents to worldwide pop domination, becoming icons of their era. While Andrew Ridgeley may have appeared to have stood in George Michael's shadow, he always stood at the heart of the band. Until now, Andrew has kept private the special memories of life as a pop sensation. In this tender retelling of life as one half of the iconic duo, Andrew reveals the truth behind the triumphs, heartbreaks and of course, the fierce friendship with George that endured it all. Learn More: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/wham-george-and-me-9780241385814
From Wham!, George & Me, Andrew Ridgely reveals four lesser-known facts about the 1980s pop sensation.