WHAM! (2023)
Director: Chris Smith
Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham! career, from 70s best buds to 80s pop icons.
Where to watch
Netflix
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Director
Chris Smith
Cast
Andrew Ridgeley
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George Michael
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Elton John
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David Bowie
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Mick Jagger
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Sting
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Freddie Mercury
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Paul McCartney
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Shirlie Kemp
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Pepsi DeMacque
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Jerry Wexler
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Aretha Franklin
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Using actuality from their relatively short career, this is quite an interesting documentary that illustrates the rise and fall of this duo of childhood friends that started off in a small bedroom in North London and ended up punching well beyond it's weight in the UK, USA and in China too. It uses running narratives from George Michael (aka "Yog") and Andrew Ridgeley and takes us on a colourful chronology of their rise to fame and has accessed a strong selection of archive to support that. It's not one of those films that's constantly interrupted by chats from opinionated music journalists, indeed even the likes of Elton John quote only briefly, and always within the contemporaneous context of the timeline. The two men deliver a commentary that is complimentary and generous to the other - I'd like to know when AR laid his track down, George having dies in 2016, just to see whether the f…
