British director Lindsay Anderson was engaged to accompany Wham! to China and make a documentary film about the visit. Anderson called his one-hour and 18 minute film If You Were There.

Pennanen, Timo (2021). "Wham!". Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p.280 . Retrieved 9 June 2022. The feeling that whatever else might have been going on in his life, he could be relied upon to create interesting music never faded: this month there was news that he was planning to make an album with Beyoncé producer Naughty Boy. The song didn't make Billboard's Top 100 chart, but on November 29th, 1982 it peaked at #3* {for 1 week} on the United Kingdom's Singles chart.. Initially the pair wrote songs such as " Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)" and " Club Tropicana" together, but part way through the recording of their debut album Fantastic, the pair agreed that Michael was the stronger songwriter, and would take creative control. [14] Still teenagers, they promoted themselves as hedonistic youngsters, proud to live a carefree life without work or commitment. This was reflected in their earliest singles which, part-parody, part-social comment, briefly earned Wham! a reputation as a dance protest group. Wham! followed up "Young Guns (Go for It)" with a reissue of "Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)", " Bad Boys" and " Club Tropicana". By the end of 1983, Wham! were competing against pop rivals Culture Club and Duran Duran as one of Britain's biggest pop acts. Their debut album Fantastic spent two weeks at No. 1 in the UK album charts in 1983, but the album achieved only modest success in the US. [19] Legal disputes with Innervision [ edit ]Within a year, the two teenagers from Bushey, Hertfordshire were competing with Duran Duran and Culture Club to be the biggest pop band in the UK and in 1983 Wham!'s debut album Fantastic shot to number one in the charts. Wham! (briefly known in the US as Wham! UK) were an English pop duo formed in Bushey in 1981. [3] [4] The duo consisted of singers George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They were one of the most successful pop acts during the 1980s, selling more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. [5]

Harris, John (19 September 2008). "Sentenced to a lifetime of stress". theguardian.com . Retrieved 11 January 2017. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 5, 1983, Wham! performed "Young Guns (Go For It!)" on the ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'... And from the 'For What It's Worth' department; their "Club Fantastic Megamix" was their only non-Top 10 record of their eleven charted records, it peaked at #15... Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 5th 1983, Wham! performed "Young Guns (Go for It!)" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'... In case anyone had missed the point, his debut solo album, Faith, opened with the sound of Wham!’s Freedom played on a church organ, as if at a funeral. It went on to sell 25m copies – as many records as his former band had sold over their entire career. You could see why. Faith had it all.It did not make Billboard's Hot Top 100* chart, but on March 22nd, 1983 it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} on the Swedish 'Topplistan' Top Singles chart... Ridgeley explained that the name originated from a need for "something that captured the essence of what set us apart—our energy and our friendship—and then it came to us: Wham! Wham! was snappy, immediate, fun and boisterous too." [10] British graphic design studio Stylorouge was credited with adding the exclamation mark to the name of the band. [11] After the boys stomp around in a state of delirium, they step into a Rolls Royce, getting changed into their pop star outfits before attending a photoshoot.