Wham!: George Michael & Me

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He lived with Bananarama band member Keren Woodward in Cornwall between 1990 and 2017. Since then he has been seen with influencer Amanda Cronin. The family had gone on: "It seems important that his generosity of spirit and natural empathy have touched you in a way that would have him embarrassed, all your kind words are really good to hear and we know you have always known his true heart. Andrew Ridgeley fondly recalls George Michael as a shy, awkward, frizzy haired lad who shared his love for music, growing up during the heady disco days of the late 70's, writing songs in their living rooms to becoming one of the 80's hottest acts. Indeed, they shared a London council flat to begin with and Sex Pistol Paul Cook produced their first single, Aie A Mwana. However, it wasn’t long before they were on the cover of everything from Smash Hits to The Face and the NME. Wham!'s Andrew Ridgeley and girlfriend Keren Woodward secretly split after 25 years – then reconciled". hellomagazine.com. 26 July 2015 . Retrieved 27 December 2016.

The following year, Ridgeley started to revisit the legacy of Wham! in the public eye – firstly with an uncredited cameo appearance in the film Last Christmas, which of course, heavily featured the band's legendary song. Net celebrity... Keren Woordward". BBC News. 28 September 2009 . Retrieved 23 April 2012. (broken link) Een muziekbiografie verteld door de artiest zelf. Daar zijn er niet veel van. Deze van Andrew Ridgeley ging er in als Wieger Ketellapper in de pauze op de Havo. Would being free to come out have made Michael happier? “I think he feels he would. He could have taken that decision to reveal his sexuality at any point, and he chose not to until it was thrust upon him, I think largely because he felt it was no one’s business but his own. He was intensely private, and I understand that fully, because I felt the same way, perhaps not quite as deeply as he did. He felt it compromised his ability to relax and be comfortable and content in his own life.”I interviewed Andrew's then-partner Keren five years ago when she was rehearsing for a Bananarama reunion tour. She told me: “I’ve lived in Cornwall for over 20 years – I moved to Cornwall to re-balance myself after the madness of the ’80s. I’m pretty much a local now." The one thing they did take seriously was the music. Later, when Michael recorded Careless Whisper for their second album at the Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama, he didn’t like it, and rerecorded it in London. “So we knew what we were doing [in terms of] writing and making records.” a b Gold, Todd (23 September 1985). "Double Wham!my: George Michael & Andrew Ridgeley Are Making It Big". People. As the documentary recalls, Ridgeley and Michael were allowed a level of control over their output that seems staggering now, not least because they were just 19 when their first single, Wham Rap!, came out in 1982, and 23 when the band split.

Melanie had spoken proudly of her famous brother in November, telling The Big Issue about the release of the George-inspired Christmas movie Last Christmas. a b "Wham! reunion rumours quashed by George Michael". ITV News. 20 June 2012 . Retrieved 24 December 2012. Netflix's new documentary goes out of its way to prove that's not the case, although it does concede that George was the driving force behind Wham! in many ways. What the film doesn't explore though is how Ridgeley briefly continued to make new music in the aftermath of Wham!'s demise. Main thing the book showed was they were best friends, his love and respect for George shine through and it was good to see no salaciousness or bitterness throughout the bookReading in a kinda diary form from start to finish it details everything from the moment they met until the moment Andrew spoke at the Brits after George’s death Michael came out to Ridgeley about 15 years before he did so to the rest of the public; as Ridgeley retells it, it happened during the "Club Tropicana" video shoot in beachy Ibiza. He'd consulted with Holliman first on how Ridgeley might react; when she said he'd likely be fine with it ("he's your best friend," she replied) he summoned Ridgeley to his room. Ridgeley portrays his reaction as low-key—"Oh, OK... Well, that's a bit of a surprise!"—but he also notes that while the two were close friends, they didn't talk much about relationships. "When it came to romance," he notes, "neither of us had ever confided in the other." Michael's decision to not come out more publicly was in part a reaction to his wanting to keep his private life private; Ridgeley, meanwhile, became a bit of a gossip-column fixture, and the descriptions of his dealings with the press in the much less invasive British-tabloid era make today's paparazzi chases feel downright horrifying.