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.
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Earnest, classical in form, nostalgic and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20237/10
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 former is a polite response to the latter, or genuinely what was felt at the time. There are plenty of occasions when you do look at the imagery and wonder just what did Ridgely actually do, but the tone of the film and the demeanour of the two together would suggest that, like in many a successful m
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Cast
- Andrew RidgeleySelf
- George MichaelSelf (archive footage)
- Elton JohnSelf (archive footage)
- David BowieSelf (archive footage)
- Mick JaggerSelf (archive footage)
- StingSelf (archive footage)
- Freddie MercurySelf (archive footage)
- Paul McCartneySelf (archive footage)
- Shirlie KempSelf (archive footage)
- Pepsi DeMacqueSelf (archive footage)
Crew
- Chris SmithDirector
- Tim AtackOriginal Music Composer
- Gregor LyonEditor
- John BattsekProducer
- Simon HalfonProducer
- Chris SmithProducer
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