Wham!’s Andrew Ridgeley talks Christmas carolling with George Michael

Andrew Ridgeley has recounted going Christmas carolling with the late George Michael of their Wham! days to shock unsuspecting households.

The subject got here up when Ridgeley was interviewed on Magic Radio Breakfast to speak in regards to the 40 anniversary of Wham! and a few of his favorite issues about Christmas because the station launched Magic 100% Christmas, through which they are going to be enjoying festive hits continuous till midnight on Boxing Day.

“One of the vital spectacular issues I ever did round Christmas was play Wembley on Christmas Eve,” Ridgeley mentioned. “George and I as Wham had a tour in 1984, we performed 5 - 6 nights proper by means of Christmas. It was most likely one of many few years that we didn’t exit Christmas carolling, a lot I think about to the consternation of some households who couldn’t fairly imagine that they had WHAM! plus entourage singing Christmas carols there in entrance of them.”

Christmas has understandably grow to be a extra bittersweet event for Ridgeley as Christmas Day now marks the anniversary of Michael’s dying. The singer died in 2016 from heart and liver failure at the age of 53. “Clearly it will likely be an anniversary Christmas day and that lends a unhappiness to Christmas,” Ridgeley mentioned. “We try to look on the positives and what was life affirming about George, and his work and his songs and we now have nice recollections. His associates of Christmas, larking about and Christmas events they had been all the time excellent.”

He spent many Christmases with Michael, having first met him at a younger age. “We had been schoolboy greatest associates, and that relationship had a bond that was sturdy proper by means of our lives, so we meant rather a lot to one another, and we did spend lots of time collectively by means of our skilled profession after which at social instances like Christmas so a lot of good instances there.”

Ridgeley is at present working with Netflix to develop a documentary about Wham!, which is ready to offer a behind-the-scenes have a look at the duo’s ups and downs through the peak of their fame.