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00:00:31It was historic. I mean, there are very few things that you can do as a pop band that haven't
00:00:37been done before.
00:00:43It was a great privilege being the first people to play real kind of Western pop music to those people.
00:00:54I wouldn't have missed it for anything. It was just that it was a pretty hard couple of weeks.
00:01:00It was a great privilege being the first people to play real kind of play real kind of play real
00:01:30kind of play real kind of play real kind of play real kind of play.
00:01:43It was a great privilege being the first people to play real kind of play real kind of play real
00:01:50kind of play real kind of play real kind of play real kind of play.
00:01:53This is how.
00:01:54This is how.
00:01:56Alright.
00:01:57This is how.
00:01:58Don't follow me.
00:01:58Not going to veux.
00:02:03Thishões.
00:02:05This
00:02:06The KNIFTH
00:02:09This is waarom.
00:02:12Oh, baby, you can tell me now
00:02:15That it's just so hard to get to know
00:02:18I don't want to be what I don't want to be
00:02:28I don't want, I mean, baby
00:02:33One time I'm just freezing down
00:02:36I don't want to be
00:02:46The purpose of China was strategic
00:02:53We wanted Wham! to be the biggest pop act there was
00:03:00In 1984, we'd had three top ten hits
00:03:03People thought of them as Britain's biggest group
00:03:07They'd had a number one with Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
00:03:11A number two with Last Christmas
00:03:15And then a number one with Everything She Wants
00:03:19They were really ready to break America in a big way
00:03:22That was the next step
00:03:26To break the States was a huge ambition for any UK act
00:03:31And George's ambition overrode everything
00:03:36However, he had suffered with his voice breaking down
00:03:40He had undiagnosed polyps on his vocal cords at that point
00:03:44And so he didn't want to spend months touring small venues
00:03:49We wanted a fast-track Wham! straight to the top
00:03:53Something was going to have to be done
00:03:55We didn't have the answer
00:03:57But Simon did
00:03:59To break America in a big way
00:04:01Maybe we could make you the first Western group ever to play in Communist China
00:04:06This is the Lowu Bridge
00:04:08Spanning the boundary between British Hong Kong and Communist China
00:04:12It's as far as an American reporter can get
00:04:15China, at that time, had been closed for centuries
00:04:19China was a very interesting, unknown place
00:04:22Nobody's gotten in there
00:04:24Nobody went to China
00:04:25Unless you were doing trade or something like that
00:04:28But certainly not a pop band
00:04:30The problem is not merely that we cannot look in
00:04:34But that the Chinese will not or cannot look out
00:04:46It's frustrating being so close
00:04:49And yet so far from one of the biggest stories on Earth
00:04:52Simon proposed going to China
00:04:55Because China loomed large in the American imagination
00:04:59China mania, Ming madness, whatever you want to call it
00:05:01It's sweeping New York and the rest of our country for that matter
00:05:04When I knew if Wham played in China
00:05:05We would get extraordinary coverage around the world
00:05:08And break them in America, big and quickly
00:05:10I was very sceptical
00:05:11It was going to cost a lot of money
00:05:13It could be an enormous waste of time
00:05:15Well I quickly found out that going to China wasn't going to be easy
00:05:18I went 13 times and I think it took 18 months
00:05:22We didn't know what Simon was doing
00:05:25No one knew what Simon was doing
00:05:27Except Simon
00:05:28It was quite a definite deal I was making with the Chinese
00:05:31They could have foreign investment
00:05:32We could get worldwide exposure
00:05:34I don't think I totally believe it would work at that time
00:05:38Yeah, it was very extremely difficult
00:05:42We'd almost forgotten about Simon's proposal
00:05:45Until out of the blue
00:05:47Simon told us that we'd been invited to play two shows
00:05:50One in Beijing and one in Guangzhou
00:05:52I think Simon fell down
00:05:55Seriously, he was so shocked
00:06:03The entire single only purpose of playing China
00:06:07Was to break them in America
00:06:09Wham in China
00:06:13Cynical
00:06:16Untried
00:06:17Untested
00:06:18Risky
00:06:22I didn't really like it
00:06:42Landing in China
00:06:43I felt we were there on false pretences
00:06:48It was a circus
00:06:56Simon had assembled a significant press corps
00:07:01There was only one reason they were there
00:07:03And that was to serve our purpose
00:07:05We had to have global coverage
00:07:08The whole image of Wham
00:07:10Was totally dependent on a good relationship with the press
00:07:12And they were absolutely brilliant at it
00:07:18But they also got extremely aggravated by it
00:07:22In China
00:07:23We were cheap by jowl
00:07:26With our antagonists
00:07:28The UK tabloid press
00:07:30And I'd have rather been without it
00:07:32But it was a bit of a Faustian pact
00:07:35A necessary evil
00:07:45The big topics as a tabloid journalist
00:07:49Would be money, affairs, fights, rouse
00:07:53Pop stars hating each other
00:07:54Anything antagonistic is really good for the tabloids
00:07:57Involving pretty girls as well
00:08:02The press in the 80s was harsh
00:08:04Really harsh
00:08:05And they were always after a bad story
00:08:08And it kind of knocks your confidence
00:08:11It was about creating hysteria
00:08:14It was about creating the story
00:08:16That would get people really interested
00:08:18I don't know what the press do it for
00:08:19I mean I can't imagine the worst job
00:08:21To be honest
00:08:22What happened that Andrew didn't like
00:08:24Of course and no one likes it
00:08:25Is that they can't control the press
00:08:27Fury as a wham star pulls a bloke's bird
00:08:30Yeah I was on the way she had a boyfriend
00:08:32He slept with her
00:08:34Excellent
00:08:35Excellent stuff
00:08:36I mean the guy's 22
00:08:38So what?
00:08:39But in a way
00:08:40It's kind of what the papers call a curtain raiser
00:08:43To what was then going to come
00:08:58When we came out of the capital Chinese airport
00:09:01There were these huge black limousines
00:09:04Those are red flag 770s
00:09:08Red flag is the cars that Mao rode in
00:09:12The premiers rode in
00:09:14Presidents of other countries rode in
00:09:16This was a huge honor on the Chinese part
00:09:21A huge gift to them
00:09:32As we drove from the airport
00:09:34Into Beijing
00:09:35Along this highway
00:09:37It looked like the area had been hit by a nuclear bomb
00:09:41You could go along these two track roads basically
00:09:44Swinging around oxen and carts
00:09:48It felt very utilitarian
00:09:51Much as I think we would have expected
00:09:54A communist country to look
00:10:01And then out of nowhere
00:10:02Comes this like glass structure
00:10:05A big glass building
00:10:17Walking into the Great Wall Hotel
00:10:19It could have been any hotel in the west
00:10:22The rooms were like you know Hilton
00:10:25But yet right outside the door
00:10:26There were people on bicycles in blue suits
00:10:30This is the difference between new and old
00:10:32And what's going to go on in China
00:10:37When I came to China in 1985
00:10:41It spoke to something very big in China's history
00:10:44China was opening up to the west
00:10:48So it's this sort of news that
00:10:50It's not going to go on in the same way
00:10:52It's not going to go on in the same way
00:10:55It's not going to go on in the same way
00:11:01People's clothes were starting to change
00:11:03They started to wear less dark colors
00:11:06Mouth suits
00:11:07They started to go to salons
00:11:09To make their hair curly
00:11:21There was a hunger in China
00:11:25For connection with the west
00:11:30William's timing was exquisite
00:11:39The very first day
00:11:41The first thing they had to do
00:11:42Was go to the Great Wall
00:11:48The Great Wall of China
00:11:50Would have been the most important
00:11:52Photo opportunity of the tour
00:11:59I'm less bothered about words
00:12:01I'm more concerned that photographers
00:12:03Are getting what they want
00:12:07If we're going to make the front pages
00:12:09We've got to have good pictures
00:12:18George's relationship with the press
00:12:20Was less antagonistic than mine
00:12:24Whilst I was taking the heat
00:12:26The attention wasn't on him quite so much
00:12:30I'd never seen so much press
00:12:33It was a feeding frenzy
00:12:37The pictures from there were dynamite
00:12:42We could actually see
00:12:44Those two boys morphing into
00:12:46Like these superstars
00:12:48In front of our eyes
00:12:51The photographers got what they wanted
00:12:55And in a way
00:12:56You know, everybody was happy
00:13:04Someone said
00:13:05We should be doing a documentary about this
00:13:08Oh dear
00:13:09A documentary
00:13:18I'm Martin Lewis
00:13:19In 1985
00:13:21I was the chap who instigated
00:13:23And produced the film
00:13:24Of Why I'm in China
00:13:28What sort of producer are you?
00:13:31A very good one
00:13:33From our point of view
00:13:34Why it would have been filmed
00:13:36Would have been to claw back
00:13:38Some of the vast expense that it cost to go there
00:13:40We were not asked to suggest directors
00:13:44There were no directors
00:13:46There was only ever one director considered
00:13:48And that was my suggestion of Lindsay Anderson
00:13:51He'd won the Oscar for a documentary
00:13:53Called Thursday's Children in 1954
00:13:55He'd made groundbreaking feature films
00:13:58This Sporting Life
00:13:59If, Oh Lucky Man
00:14:01He would understand the breadth of this canvas
00:14:06I got a call to ask me if I would go to China
00:14:09To direct a film with Wham
00:14:11I was immediately interested
00:14:13Everybody thought I was completely mad
00:14:15And I said
00:14:16Why?
00:14:17I mean, Wham may not be great
00:14:19But the visit of a western populate to China
00:14:22Must be interesting
00:14:23I wasn't really interested in Wham
00:14:25And so it was only when Lindsay came on board
00:14:27That you went
00:14:28Wow, Lindsay Anderson?
00:14:30What an honor to work with this guy
00:14:31Whilst my knowledge of Lindsay's work
00:14:33Was next to non-existent
00:14:36Someone of his pedigree
00:14:38Just didn't fit
00:14:40George, on the other hand
00:14:41Felt that Lindsay would lend credibility
00:14:43To the documentary
00:14:44I wasn't going to fight that particular battle
00:14:48Well, the hard part was
00:14:50He comes to China
00:14:51He breaks his leg
00:14:52I think he twisted his knee
00:14:54Either at the wall
00:14:55Or just after the wall
00:14:56I don't know what happened on the wall
00:14:59Except that Lindsay hurt himself
00:15:01And then I wound up pushing the director around
00:15:04On his wheelchair all the time
00:15:09They all came back from the Great Wall
00:15:11More grumpy and more bad-temperate
00:15:13Than they set off
00:15:14Only to find that they had a state dinner that night
00:15:18What do Wham say?
00:15:20Honored guests, dignitaries, blah, blah, etc
00:15:23Watcher, geezers at large
00:15:26Just put honor guests
00:15:28It is a great honor
00:15:30It's all that business
00:15:31Yeah, I know, but I mean
00:15:32Why do you have to put on guests?
00:15:34Because they're
00:15:35That makes them sound honored
00:15:36But they're not honored
00:15:36It's a minute
00:15:37Yeah, for us to speak to them
00:15:40My partner, Andrew and I
00:15:41Are only here
00:15:44For the publicity
00:15:47Let's get down to truth here
00:15:49Just pad it out with those words
00:15:52Did the honor to end flattered
00:15:53Or end most flattered
00:15:55It doesn't make sense
00:15:57Look, you stupid sod
00:15:58It's a full stop
00:15:59Sounds crap to me, Andrew
00:16:01Yeah, sure
00:16:05Thank you, man
00:16:06Hongryu, man
00:16:07And friends
00:16:09In
00:16:10In honor of Wham
00:16:12The banquet
00:16:14Hosted by Travel Department
00:16:16Of all China Youth Federation
00:16:17Now begins
00:16:19Wham in China
00:16:21Was more than just the shows
00:16:23A show had to be made
00:16:26Of Wham in China
00:16:28And that meant
00:16:29Official events
00:16:31Interacting with our hosts
00:16:33It was just part and parcel
00:16:35Of being there
00:16:35Mr. Toh Arfu
00:16:37Vice Chairman
00:16:38Of Chinese People's Association
00:16:40For Friendship
00:16:41With Foreign Countries
00:16:45The famous British seeing star
00:16:47George McHale
00:16:52And the famous British singing star
00:16:55Andrew Ridgely
00:17:00Now let's invite
00:17:02George McHale
00:17:04And Andrew Ridgely
00:17:05To deliver a speech
00:17:19Thank you very much
00:17:22I'd like to say
00:17:23To start this speech
00:17:25By saying
00:17:25That my partner Andrew
00:17:27And I
00:17:28Are deeply honored
00:17:29And extremely flattered
00:17:30To be here with you today
00:17:33I was very aware
00:17:35That they were there
00:17:36As cultural ambassadors
00:17:37That was how they were expected
00:17:40By the Chinese
00:17:43We are also
00:17:45To a certain degree
00:17:47Rather surprised
00:17:48That we are here
00:17:51This is huge pressure
00:17:53On two young men
00:17:54In a sort of
00:17:55Geopolitical situation
00:17:57That is completely unique
00:18:00No one's done this before
00:18:02The amount of interest
00:18:03And excitement
00:18:04Shown by world media
00:18:05Has made one thing clear
00:18:07And that is
00:18:08The fact that
00:18:08Our performances here
00:18:09Will represent
00:18:10Not only a musical event
00:18:12But hopefully
00:18:13A cultural introduction
00:18:15Between the young in China
00:18:16And those in the rest of the world
00:18:19Thank you George
00:18:27I think I speak for everyone
00:18:28When I say
00:18:29That although this may be
00:18:31But a small step
00:18:31For the youth of China
00:18:32It is a giant step
00:18:34For the youth of the world
00:18:35In bringing our cultures
00:18:36Closer together
00:18:38Thank you
00:18:40Thank you
00:18:55It's a bath mat
00:19:06George and Andrew
00:19:08Are on tip-top manners
00:19:11However fractious
00:19:14They may have been with the press
00:19:16They know what they've got to do
00:19:20They're on display
00:19:21The first time I saw
00:19:33A national level
00:19:39We're back in the mood
00:19:40We have to go
00:19:42It's time to see
00:19:44If we have to go
00:19:44We're back in the winter
00:19:44We're back in the gym
00:19:45It looks like
00:19:47You can buy it
00:19:47You'll buy it
00:19:48To the Philippines
00:19:49That's it
00:19:58You just sent out
00:20:00And that
00:20:01And that
00:20:02We're from
00:20:02We have to
00:20:04We have to
00:20:04Can you take a look at it?
00:20:07Yes.
00:20:10Yes.
00:20:13Can you take a look at it?
00:20:34Can you take a look at it?
00:20:41Yes.
00:20:42Yes.
00:20:42Can you take a look at it?
00:20:45Yes.
00:20:48When I heard the song, I was not at the stage.
00:20:51It was on the stage of the song.
00:20:53It was on the stage of the song.
00:20:54I didn't hear such a lot.
00:20:57It was very heavy.
00:20:58It was very heavy.
00:21:00It was a groove.
00:21:09It was very impressive.
00:21:13I'm excited to be here.
00:21:15I'm not happy that it was the stage.
00:21:18It was a good song.
00:21:22It was a good song.
00:21:24It was a good song.
00:21:26It was a good song.
00:21:27I was excited to be one of the songs.
00:21:30I was waiting for this song.
00:21:31I was in the song of WAM.
00:21:31This song is really nice.
00:21:32It's a good song.
00:21:32I'm so excited.
00:21:44I have that cassette.
00:21:46We were so poor, we didn't have cassette player.
00:21:49I asked my uncle to learn his cassette player to play that cassette all night long.
00:21:56This is a very special memory for me.
00:22:14This is the ambassador's pad in Strike in Sweden.
00:22:18Our schedule was such that we were being pulled in a variety of different directions.
00:22:24They weren't meant to be preparing for a concert and they were just swamped.
00:22:27They didn't have a minute free.
00:22:29Nice to meet you.
00:22:30Welcome here.
00:22:31It's such a lovely day.
00:22:32We go into the garden and have a drink.
00:22:34An official engagement at the British Embassy had been organised.
00:22:40I think it's very good for your Chinese food, actually.
00:22:43But if you like it, it's very good.
00:22:45The ambassador's residence was a bit of 1930s blighty transported into Peking.
00:23:05They seem to exist in this colonial microcosm.
00:23:10It's really quite strange.
00:23:13Have you enjoyed a while?
00:23:14I'll be around that.
00:23:16I'll introduce him to you, obviously, first of all.
00:23:18OK.
00:23:19As long as he's staying that way.
00:23:20Fine.
00:23:21OK.
00:23:22Right.
00:23:23Fine.
00:23:24Yes, certainly.
00:23:25Fine.
00:23:26Right.
00:23:26It was imposing.
00:23:27It was non-stop.
00:23:29And there were lots of things to do and you've got to be polite with everybody.
00:23:31OK.
00:23:32Right.
00:23:32First of all, I'll just take you around.
00:23:33If you could go over here.
00:23:35I think the guys found it quite hard work, I think, because they had to sort of press the
00:23:39flesh to so many people.
00:23:41They'd probably answer the same questions over and over again.
00:23:44There was nowhere to hide in there.
00:23:47Andrew.
00:23:48How long since you've stayed for you?
00:23:49The last time I had bowled two out in my first over, so...
00:23:53But that was...
00:23:54That was nice, isn't it?
00:23:55I thought I'd be polite and play the game.
00:23:58Jog didn't feel the same way at all.
00:24:00He thought that was an utter charade.
00:24:09What's the reaction you're expecting from the Chinese?
00:24:11Um, we've been told that they're fairly reserved in their reactions.
00:24:15So, even if they'd walked out halfway to the Chinese...
00:24:17No, they won't.
00:24:18It would be interesting.
00:24:20And they will even clap at the end now, which they're never used to.
00:24:23They're used to clap?
00:24:24No.
00:24:24It doesn't really matter what sort of reaction we get, because we're not here for their reaction.
00:24:28We're, um...
00:24:29We're here for a wider, important thing, whatever that is.
00:24:35We know exactly why we're here.
00:24:40Of course, the press was ever-present.
00:24:43We were close to them all the time.
00:24:45We didn't want to miss anything.
00:24:47And these are four very rare trees.
00:24:49These are ginkgo trees.
00:24:50Is this the average time to blossom?
00:24:52It is, yes.
00:24:52Yes, it is.
00:24:53George?
00:24:55George?
00:24:57It's always competitive if you're in a group.
00:24:59I mean, everybody's trying to get a scoop.
00:25:04It was pretty pressurising.
00:25:05It's the first time I saw George and Andrew actually snap sometimes with the press.
00:25:10Well, I think they're doing the press.
00:25:12Okay?
00:25:12Yeah, I think they've had enough of this.
00:25:14Okay?
00:25:15Okay?
00:25:15Let's go.
00:25:16Let's go.
00:25:17Let's go.
00:25:18and I would like to watch it somehow for five years.
00:25:27But with the future of the country,
00:25:27Red, look, it's the best place to look at in our lives.
00:25:32We are in a great place for the next life.
00:25:33Everyone has a great place for our lives.
00:25:35We are actually interested to see the first place.
00:25:38This is a very good place to look at the picture.
00:25:41So far, coming from a little bit of the museum,
00:25:50I've never spoken English before.
00:25:53Do you like Western music?
00:25:55Yes, very.
00:25:57Have you heard of the Beatles?
00:25:58Yes.
00:25:59The Beatles means Beatles.
00:26:02In the 80s, it wasn't too much of a success,
00:26:06so we heard the music was very good.
00:26:09After the opening and opening the door,
00:26:13we gradually接触 a lot of Western music.
00:26:15I'm a popular music fan,
00:26:18especially American country music.
00:26:21Did you like disco music?
00:26:23Yes.
00:26:25And our classmates often dance.
00:26:27Yeah, it's cool.
00:26:29My teacher loves you.
00:26:31I think a lot of young people will have gone to this concert
00:26:34out of curiosity and excitement.
00:26:37Do you want to watch the Beatles for the Beatles?
00:26:41They have to play for two days.
00:26:46China has not been able to open the opening,
00:26:49so everyone is happy and wants to understand the world.
00:26:56Bye.
00:26:57I wish you luck.
00:27:15No, just having a quick break and then getting up.
00:27:19We had an obligation to the film crew
00:27:23because they needed grist to the mail.
00:27:29Documentaries are pretty loose endeavours.
00:27:31This was clearly dysfunctional.
00:27:33Well, I think it's really good.
00:27:35I think you're talking to the camera.
00:27:36I'm just giving an observation.
00:27:38We know this trip to China is a stunt for a purpose,
00:27:43but that doesn't matter.
00:27:46It's still going to be an astonishing juxtaposition
00:27:49between East and West, Old World and New World.
00:27:53If you make a serious documentary
00:27:56about this clash of cultures,
00:27:58that will be fascinating.
00:28:02Unfortunately, George and Andrew just went,
00:28:05no, that's not our motive for doing this.
00:28:07Our motive for doing this
00:28:08is to become the biggest pop stars in the world.
00:28:11I would say the relationship with Lindsay
00:28:14deteriorated over time.
00:28:17I was no fan of Lindsay Anderson.
00:28:19I didn't like him.
00:28:20He didn't like us.
00:28:22I didn't terribly like them.
00:28:24They were quite uninterested.
00:28:26I thought very foolishly uninterested
00:28:29in the idea of a film being made.
00:28:31I was surprised watching Lindsay.
00:28:33He himself didn't do very much.
00:28:35I mean, I think he just got fed up with the whole thing.
00:28:37Martin, the producer, is on the line to make this film.
00:28:41At all costs, he was going to get people
00:28:43to film things that needed to be filmed.
00:28:46Yes, I was producing and in a way directing
00:28:49because I knew I needed footage.
00:28:51To be dragged around to contrived scenes
00:28:55was not something that either of us
00:28:57were particularly comfortable with.
00:29:01When do you like?
00:29:03Hello.
00:29:04You have fun?
00:29:05Yes, I'm good.
00:29:06Okay, Andrew?
00:29:07We have some friends going to be here.
00:29:11Oh, hello.
00:29:12Nice to meet you.
00:29:13Welcome to visit China.
00:29:14Thank you very much.
00:29:16Hello.
00:29:16I joined Michael.
00:29:18I am.
00:29:18I listen to the cassette tape.
00:29:21Oh, you listen to the cassette?
00:29:22Yeah.
00:29:22So you're coming to the concert tomorrow?
00:29:24I hope you enjoy it.
00:29:25I'm very lucky.
00:29:27I hope you enjoy it.
00:29:28We want everybody to get up and have a quick dance.
00:29:31We didn't know.
00:29:34We have no choice, mate.
00:29:37You're angry, really?
00:29:38Yes.
00:29:39Very glad to meet you.
00:29:41Thank you very much.
00:29:42I could tell that George was starting to get fed up.
00:29:47It was extremely claustrophobic.
00:29:52Where's George?
00:29:53I don't know, we'll get him.
00:29:55Neil, can you get...
00:29:57Er, not bad.
00:30:03Where is he?
00:30:04Do you know Martin?
00:30:09He's gone.
00:30:15Great.
00:30:16I'm not doing these autographs.
00:30:19George is not feeling well.
00:30:23I think I can meet him tomorrow.
00:30:26Yeah.
00:30:26Yeah, do.
00:30:28Come on.
00:30:39What happened to George?
00:30:44George.
00:30:44George got pissed off.
00:30:47Actually, I've just acquired some new friends.
00:30:49They're going to come with me wherever I go.
00:30:52A bunch of guys.
00:30:53There you are.
00:30:56Does George take off like this?
00:30:59Does he leave you in the lurch, so to speak?
00:31:02He's left me in the lurch before, but, you know, once bitten, twice aware, or twice as aware, as Confucius
00:31:11said.
00:31:13How would you describe your partnership?
00:31:17With George?
00:31:18Yeah.
00:31:19Stormy.
00:31:21But mostly on the fair side.
00:31:23He's a nice enough chap.
00:31:24But how...
00:31:24I mean, what do you...
00:31:25What do each of you bring to the partnership?
00:31:29Um...
00:31:32Well, I always bring the tea.
00:31:34He brings the cakes and the sandwiches.
00:31:37Partyship.
00:31:38Partnership.
00:31:38All right.
00:31:54George was essentially a very private person.
00:32:00He constructed George Michael, and George Michael shielded...
00:32:06It yoggled the person to a degree.
00:32:09But it also caused a great deal of trial and tribulation.
00:32:16The challenges that you want to give yourself are automatically going to bring you more of what you don't want.
00:32:22Which is that public fascination, you know?
00:32:27Although there is that half of me that wants it, there's another half of me that's very frightened of it
00:32:31as well.
00:32:34He was really sensitive.
00:32:38There was that side to him that no one really knew.
00:32:42He had the world coming at him.
00:32:46And I was watching the dilemma that he was having.
00:32:52I think what George realised at that moment in Beijing was his entire life was going to be like that
00:32:58all the time.
00:33:00This is my future.
00:33:01Do I want it?
00:33:04As a dichotomy, I think a lot of stars have in common.
00:33:08An obsession with success and recognition.
00:33:14At the same time, a real need for privacy.
00:33:35If you were there, please.
00:33:40We formed a band to write songs and perform them.
00:33:43That's what you do. That's the essence. Everything else is noise.
00:33:50Whilst the purpose of being in China was strategic, when you get on stage, you do the very best you
00:33:57can.
00:33:58And that's what we always strove to do.
00:34:02It doesn't matter whether it was Beijing or Boston.
00:34:06Wham had to give a good account of itself.
00:34:09If you were there, no.
00:34:15If you were there, no.
00:34:22If you were there, no.
00:34:24How's it going to go?
00:34:26I don't know. That was probably better than the gig.
00:34:28Probably much better than the gig.
00:34:31Do you get nervous at this point?
00:34:34I'm always nervous at this point. No.
00:34:36No, I don't normally, but I am today.
00:34:39I am today.
00:34:41That's it.
00:34:43Now we're on stage at 7.45.
00:34:46Right, we can't be late.
00:34:48OK?
00:34:50Alright, see you all later.
00:35:02I never have this kind of experience to come to the concert.
00:35:07Exciting. Very excited, right?
00:35:10When I listen to it, I just want to dance.
00:35:13I love this.
00:35:14I think there's a lot of people.
00:35:16People are very excited to wait for such a concert.
00:35:22The first thing I can see is really are now.
00:35:25I'm not sure if I'm watching this.
00:35:27The police officer will come out of this door.
00:35:30The police officer will open the gate.
00:35:32The building is open.
00:35:34The police officer will open the gate.
00:35:34The police officer will open the gate.
00:35:36The police officer will open the gate.
00:35:56These are what I use to get me through the average concert. I can't give you the name
00:35:59because I'm not sponsored by them, but just look, oh chewy, juicy jelly.
00:36:29And I wonder where she must stay, my little runaway, run run run run run away, run run run run
00:36:43run away, run run run run run away.
00:36:53They seem to have a lot of pressure. I really don't like that at all.
00:36:59That's why I feel like the people are like this.
00:37:05They say, I don't play anymore.
00:37:22we decided we had to have the cheapest possible support act so we met this guy called trevor
00:37:27who was a great dancer i don't need you so you don't approve of course trevor up and down the
00:37:36aisles
00:37:48i was backstage in the dressing room helping george and andrew come up with some words they
00:37:54wanted to say to the audience when they came out bridging that cultural gap um please everybody
00:38:04clap your hands please join in i ain't never gonna work get down in the dirt i choose to cruise
00:38:12trevor the greek dance have got just a little bit carried away
00:38:21the foreigners there were already dancing
00:38:27some chinese youth got involved
00:38:38the way they dance is not like natural but you just want to move for me that's
00:38:45that's more important they just want shaking their body
00:38:49hot damn everybody let's raise them i promise you a good job no way you also know that trevor's
00:38:55doing great downs and it's just going fantastically yeah the kids are just gaming this every time it
00:39:00gets to an area of the audience right they're just like crowding around they all want to shake this
00:39:05hand yeah well they're still dancing around them and you said they had a chain going like this
00:39:20the chinese authorities hadn't seen enough this before and watching the audience they were worried
00:39:25it was going to result in a riot so when the interval came there was an announcement that everyone had
00:39:35to
00:39:35stay in their seats please be more quiet and respectful stay in your seats
00:39:48when we walked out silence absolute silence in the room we were all like deer in headlights
00:39:56us looking out at them and them looking at us in terms of the value to wham's career it was
00:40:01probably
00:40:02the most important gig they ever played i felt stressed i never feel stressed
00:40:22it was so fast yeah thank you george
00:40:27just turn around so we went faster yeah
00:40:38it set off as a proper gallop really as a consequence of a bit of nervous excitement
00:41:01and i remember looking at george and i could read his face and there was confusion in his eyes because
00:41:13the audience weren't reacting how the boys were used to
00:41:16the audience weren't reacting how the boys were used to所有的东西跟我们以往听到的接触到的都不一样通常我们看演出都是坐着看不知道该怎么去互动
00:41:51的大声音乐
00:41:52at one point george wants everybody to clap
00:41:55and the chinese were like well when do we clap
00:41:59because they're used to classical music where you know exactly who to clap and not to clap
00:42:21These guys were putting out all this energy,
00:42:23and you look out in the crowd, and there was very little reaction.
00:42:27Now, that has got to be the worst thing for a performer,
00:42:29because you don't know how you're doing,
00:42:32and you suppose you're not doing very well.
00:42:34Wake me up, before you go, don't you dare to leave me here,
00:42:39I'll like you, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:42:42When I look back to the audience,
00:42:45I have a lot of people who want to move,
00:42:51but they don't know how to move,
00:42:53or are not sorry, or shy.
00:42:56They don't know how to move, but my heart is very angry.
00:43:13I hope some people are born in a home country.
00:43:17We hope one day it will be another one, here in China, with your help.
00:43:23It's called Freedom!
00:43:25I remember squirming in my seat, thinking,
00:43:28ooh, that's a bit edgy.
00:43:30I'm not sure the Chinese authorities are going to like that word.
00:43:35Do, do, do, do.
00:43:38Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:43:42Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
00:43:47Every day I hear a different story
00:43:49People saying that you're not good for me
00:43:53So you're up with another, and she's making a fool of you
00:44:00The security had been instructed
00:44:03to make sure it doesn't get out of hand.
00:44:06People started moving a little bit
00:44:08and then standing up.
00:44:29I don't want your freedom
00:44:32I don't want to play around
00:44:36I don't want no idea
00:44:39Long time love just brings me down
00:44:42I don't want your freedom
00:44:47Girl, all I want right now is you
00:44:52Whoa, whoa, yeah
00:44:57There was one chap that was standing up
00:44:59and he started enjoying himself
00:45:01and he was totally dancing
00:45:02like total freedom.
00:45:05Music is such a cellular thing
00:45:06and if you've never experienced that
00:45:08some people are going to react
00:45:09where they're just having a moment
00:45:11they can't control it.
00:45:22One man started to get up on his seat
00:45:25and I think he even went a little higher
00:45:28maybe he went on top of his seat
00:45:29and he was dancing.
00:45:31So the police immediately came
00:45:33and took him away.
00:45:35Music is living
00:45:35If you take me to hell and back
00:45:38It's as long as we're together
00:45:41And you do
00:45:44That incident made the concert political
00:45:47but of course these journalists
00:45:49were there to watch just for that.
00:45:51It's as long as we can see
00:45:56But we can see
00:45:56I'm a little bit
00:46:00I saw you
00:46:01And I thought it was a big effect
00:46:02I could do
00:46:03I can't control it
00:46:03I can't control it
00:46:04It's a big effect
00:46:04I can't control it
00:46:04Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa
00:46:07Oh, whoa, whoa
00:46:07De-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-do
00:46:10Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:46:47Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:47:01The first feeling was that of failure.
00:47:08As far as we were concerned, we were not communicating.
00:47:11which was really horrendous to perform to give everything which is what we always tried to do
00:47:25to know palpable effect it was disheartening
00:47:42you're not really going to come in asking about our opinions are you
00:47:47i certainly think george and andrew felt it wasn't a great gig but it really didn't matter
00:47:52because whether the audience reaction was a good reaction or a bad reaction main thing is
00:47:57in america on nbc cbs abc news 24 7 every hour there was one the gig was just the mechanism
00:48:24before that i knew nothing and suddenly there were so many things
00:48:36it's like a window
00:48:40and i from that moment you open the window and then you learned there was a bigger world
00:48:52that make me think i want to do this
00:48:58one day i'm going to do that
00:49:10that day of the music
00:49:11i remember that my brain was playing with the drum of the beat
00:49:15and playing with the drum
00:49:18it was a very important thing
00:49:20It's not a big deal.
00:49:26To see this event, I think it's a deep feeling.
00:49:32I'm very excited.
00:49:52The morning after, we were under an obligation to give a press conference.
00:50:00I knew that the journalists hated the fact that they were being summoned.
00:50:04That's not how they wanted to be treated.
00:50:08And the real story there was the Chinese, not that.
00:50:12Yeah. Smile, you're on camera.
00:50:15Still think that it's over.
00:50:20We weren't going to spend a day speaking to them individually and treating them as our friends and giving them
00:50:26what they wanted.
00:50:27And they loathed that.
00:50:32Press conferences are a way of journalists getting their own back on pop groups or celebrities.
00:50:39And it was, you know what Simon called it from the fucking assholes.
00:50:44It's a chance for a nasty journalist to rile the ban.
00:50:47They're like caged animals in a press conference.
00:50:53Why have we got 18,000 chairs?
00:50:57Now, who's going to ask your best question?
00:51:00George and Andrew, could you give us your reactions to last night's first show in Peking?
00:51:06Just generally successful. How did you feel about it?
00:51:08Just generally successful. People obviously wanted to enjoy what was happening.
00:51:11It became obvious there was no precedence for them to follow.
00:51:14They followed to the extent that they could, you know.
00:51:18Andrew?
00:51:20I feel exactly the way George saw it, the same way.
00:51:23Some Chinese I spoke to, they were a little bit embarrassed about the sexy aspects of the show.
00:51:29Do you think that it was too sexy for what Chinese are used to?
00:51:32I'm sorry for the fact that I toned my act down a hell of a lot last night.
00:51:35As far as I was concerned, I didn't do anything particularly sexy.
00:51:38Which is not my usual, my usual angle.
00:51:42Maybe my hips were moving a little bit too much for them, I don't know.
00:51:46What do you think of the Chinese police wrapping up some Chinese in here to dance?
00:51:51We didn't see anything of it. We only heard reports.
00:51:54Yeah, we heard all the reports, we were too busy.
00:51:56And as per usual, I'm sure the reports were grossly exaggerated.
00:52:02How did they hold that?
00:52:04How do we know what?
00:52:05That they were, the reports were grossly exaggerated.
00:52:08Because they usually are.
00:52:09I don't think they were last night actually.
00:52:11We saw it happen right before our own eyes.
00:52:13Yes, well I heard several different stories about it, so you know.
00:52:15Well, if I told you that such a thing happened, did you give us a reaction?
00:52:17Well, why should I believe you and not someone else?
00:52:19I mean, what do you think of treatment like that, of potential fans?
00:52:24I heard originally the reaction was because they were having a good time dancing.
00:52:27Then I heard later on that they were acting in a particularly drunk manner.
00:52:32But I think there were a lot of people in the audience last night
00:52:35that maybe were a little bit intimidated by the Chinese police.
00:52:37Was there any consultation between you and the sponsoring organisation
00:52:40as to whether or not the Chinese were going to be allowed to dance last night?
00:52:43No, there wasn't.
00:52:44And earlier you said there were people dancing in the back,
00:52:46but in fact, every time a Chinese stood out to dance,
00:52:49he was either asked to sit down or were forced to be taken out by the police.
00:52:53Were you to stand up on stage and urge people to dance and put them in this position?
00:52:58Because many people did want to dance, but being taken away by the police,
00:53:01haven't you given some talk to that beforehand?
00:53:03Well, we really had no idea that there were going to be any restrictions
00:53:05on what people did in the concert, but we certainly were not given any indication
00:53:09that the Chinese would be restricted in what they were doing.
00:53:13Any more questions?
00:53:15George and Andrew, last night your manager, Simon Napier-Bell,
00:53:19told us that he thought that perhaps all of this sudden fame had gone to your heads
00:53:23and you couldn't handle it.
00:53:25What did you think of that?
00:53:28Simon didn't.
00:53:29Well, I think the members of the press who will back me up
00:53:31say that he did say that to us last night.
00:53:33It doesn't actually sound very much like our manager,
00:53:35but anyway, you know, I don't think it's gone to our heads in any way at all.
00:53:39Yeah, I think it's also fairly irrelevant to this conference.
00:53:42OK, last question.
00:53:43How did you end up having a communist, you as a big as your host?
00:53:49Because it's China. It's a communist country.
00:53:54Stupid.
00:54:02Do yourself no favours.
00:54:04I don't want to do myself any favours, George.
00:54:08This is a tough game.
00:54:10And in China, George and Andrew were carrying a lot of cultural and economic importance
00:54:15and having to deal with newspapers that hadn't been particularly kind to them.
00:54:22The pressure in the pressure cooker has just gone up a few notches.
00:54:35After the press conference, the band were leaving to Guangzhou,
00:54:38where the next gig was.
00:54:40But George and Andrew and I were staying behind Beijing.
00:54:43We had a really important interview to do.
00:54:46It was live on the CBS morning news show, which was the big breakfast show.
00:54:51It was very important. That was why they were in China.
00:54:58It was a big deal, an interview on American Primetime.
00:55:02It was a big deal, an interview on American Primetime.
00:55:16It was a big deal with us.
00:55:18It was a big deal.
00:55:18As George said, we're not here to have a good time, so...
00:55:22When Andrew and George were doing a satellite interview,
00:55:26we would have then been going to the airport.
00:55:29It was a big sense of relief to get on the plane to go to the next town.
00:55:34But the sense of relief did not last a long time.
00:55:39We'd just taken off. Everybody was in a great mood.
00:55:42But Raul, my fellow trumpet player...
00:55:45Yeah, he was my buddy as well.
00:55:46...had been having a tough time for a couple of days in China.
00:55:49And I could see that he was struggling.
00:55:52It was 20 minutes into takeoff.
00:55:54And then suddenly, I think Shirley or Pepsi, one of them, screamed.
00:55:58We were half an hour out of Beijing,
00:56:00and there was a commotion at the front of the plane.
00:56:02I jumped up and looked over to see blood on Shirley's coat
00:56:08and blood around Raul.
00:56:10It was one of the most scary experiences of my life.
00:56:13But what I could see, he'd stabbed himself in his stomach.
00:56:17We am in China.
00:56:21In Peking last night, it was a two-man cultural revolution.
00:56:25Good morning, George. Good morning, Andrew.
00:56:28Good morning. Good evening, Phyllis.
00:56:29George is the blonde, and Andrew is the brunette.
00:56:34And I say this because this is a first for you all.
00:56:36Everybody is so excited to have you all on our television here.
00:56:41Andrew is just reeling over being called a brunette here.
00:56:44That's very flattering, Phyllis.
00:56:47Well, I'm a semi-brunette, so that's how I relate to it.
00:56:51I have a few highlights, though, to make mine look a little lighter.
00:56:54Tell me, are you both happy with the way the concert went
00:56:56and the way you've been treated in China?
00:56:59So it took a little while for the airline to conceive of what was going on,
00:57:04but when they got it, the plane then turned around to return to the airport.
00:57:09We went down like that, straight down.
00:57:12We went plowing down through the clouds.
00:57:15He always thought we were going to die.
00:57:18The Chinese medical team wheeled him off the plane on a gurney.
00:57:21And as he was going past me, he said,
00:57:24Phyllis, get my trumpet, get my trumpet.
00:57:26And I know, as a trumpet player, it doesn't matter what's happened to you.
00:57:31You can't lose your trumpet.
00:57:33Thank you both for allowing us to talk with you all after your big concert.
00:57:38And congratulations on all the success that you both had.
00:57:42Thank you, George. Andrew, you're terrific.
00:57:44Thanks for being with us.
00:57:45Thank you very much. Goodbye.
00:57:45Bye-bye from Peking, China.
00:57:49He had a breakdown, basically.
00:57:52We all had our own personal traumas that sprung out of what was happening to Raoul,
00:57:56but ours were all minor in comparison to what he had to deal with.
00:58:01We were completely unaware of the incident that had taken place
00:58:04until we came off air and Simon relayed the news.
00:58:07The plane went back to him. Back to him.
00:58:09You mean the plane had to turn back?
00:58:10Yes. Oh, no, it's awful.
00:58:14Some plane has just come down.
00:58:17It was a very unfortunate situation, but for the press,
00:58:22it was exactly what they'd been waiting for.
00:58:26Attention, Jonathan Morris, care of China Hotel, urgent.
00:58:30That's not a hostile headline, that's what happened.
00:58:33We have heard news reports of an incident with Wham's trumpet player.
00:58:37We were there to write about it, so we write about what happened.
00:58:42The fact that something in the press hurt somebody else, I mean, so what?
00:58:47Life isn't, you know, it's not a bowl of cherries, is it?
00:58:51They threw him home and he fully recovered.
00:58:56Raoul wasn't seriously injured, but nevertheless, it was pretty shocking.
00:59:17It was an uncomfortable journey from Beijing to Guangzhou.
00:59:21We didn't know how the band felt.
00:59:25We didn't know what impact the event had had on the band,
00:59:31whether they were in the right frame of mind to perform at Guangzhou.
00:59:41Beijing is always a little bit more conservative, it's the capital.
00:59:45By the time we got to Guangzhou, it was quite different because they have the huge influence of Hong Kong.
00:59:52Guangzhou is the very first city to open up.
00:59:56Guangzhou must be the frontier.
01:00:01They were much more open to Western ideas, Western clothes, Western music.
01:00:06There was an aspect of night and day between those two cities.
01:00:12And when you add the fact that we put the incident on the plane behind us,
01:00:15hey, we were all just glad to be there.
01:00:23The next day, we had the football match.
01:00:26Football match? Yeah, interesting.
01:00:29It was a relief when we met our fellow bandmates.
01:00:34We thought it would be nice to arrange a footy match with the Chinese road crew.
01:00:39I was still turned over about the aeroplane,
01:00:42but having a football match to forget about everything else was great.
01:00:46The guy with the white shorts, his name is Andrew.
01:00:49Keep your eye on him, he's a good player.
01:00:51We were cheerleaders.
01:00:55We were cheerleaders. Yeah, that was happy.
01:00:58It brought us all together, didn't it, with George and Andrew?
01:01:01Yeah.
01:01:08It was a blast.
01:01:10Andrew was quite a decent footballer.
01:01:14George, not so adept.
01:01:18He's a very competitive man, don't you know?
01:01:22But Andrew was always a bit more nifty.
01:01:37I am sure we were victorious, definitely victorious.
01:01:40I think we would have had to have been victorious because George was on our side.
01:01:49We were trying to make one score, I think. But they did. They are the winners.
01:02:03The majority of the press had gone back to the UK, and so the constraining influence that we all felt
01:02:11had eased.
01:02:12The real George Michael hairstyle here, you can see. George Michael uses Clairol.
01:02:17Hate that grey, wash it away.
01:02:19I think that was the happiest that everyone was on the trim.
01:02:22Come on, mate.
01:02:24A lot of people actually got a great deal of solace out of that football match.
01:02:29I know I did.
01:02:42It's so awkward.
01:02:42It's so awkward.
01:02:45Get in here.
01:02:45All right.
01:02:45All right.
01:02:47I love a world of them now.
01:02:47George, it's Cat.
01:02:50Can you just tell me that you're a bit like a...
01:02:52All right.
01:02:55You might as well record it.
01:02:58All right, I love all of them now.
01:02:59Georgia said the Beijing-Peking show was the hardest show they'd ever done.
01:03:03It was tough.
01:03:07There was a fair bit riding on the show in Guangzhou.
01:03:12It was important for us that it went well.
01:03:15No-one wanted to leave China thinking we could have done better.
01:03:21We needed to come away leaving people thinking that they'd seen,
01:03:26you know, the best pop band in the world.
01:03:31George had a way to turn things around.
01:03:35He had a knack for that.
01:03:50Throughout the entire experience, the film crew, we were kind of like a car bundle.
01:03:54We were a parasitic organization. Nobody really wanted us.
01:03:58I think there was less and less engagement with them as the endeavor unfolded.
01:04:03And by, count on, I think they were just running the cameras.
01:04:10Is you allowed to do that?
01:04:13If you could introduce yourself, tell us what you do.
01:04:17Well, I've been wondering about for the last couple of weeks.
01:04:21But if anybody's got any idea, I'd be happy to know.
01:04:25But it's a growth experience.
01:04:28A growth experience for us all.
01:04:30Is there a theme to this film?
01:04:33A theme to the film?
01:04:35I'm sure there must be one if I can think of one.
01:04:39What's happening here in this scene?
01:04:41Well, we're reversing history in this scene and showing how China has been seduced from the path of progress by
01:04:50people like ourselves.
01:04:52George Magnus would never want that film made. I mean, why would he?
01:04:56Everybody had a separate agenda.
01:04:58Wham had an agenda. Lindsay had an agenda.
01:05:01But there, we lost alignment.
01:05:07At this point, we're just going to grab as much footage of China as we can, and we'll make it
01:05:12work in the edit.
01:05:14However, somehow, I got George to give an interview.
01:05:18Obviously, I was a pioneer in reality TV, because he said, I've got to have a massage.
01:05:22I said, well, I'll film you there.
01:05:24Hope you're not filming my buttocks.
01:05:26Oh, no. Go for the buttocks.
01:05:28Actually, you can go for the buttocks all you like, see if we get it past the sensors.
01:05:30There's nothing objectionable about my buttocks at all.
01:05:34It's very relaxing, though.
01:05:36Even with the film crew here?
01:05:38Even with the film crew. Hi, guys.
01:05:41You'd think when a cameraman shows up, he'd go, you know, fuck off.
01:05:44But no, it's very polite. It's very English.
01:05:49Have you and Andrew changed in a week or two of this trip?
01:05:53I think we probably have a different view of communism than when we first arrived.
01:06:00It seems just that their whole way of life is actually quite oppressive in an unrealistic sort of way.
01:06:07He's thoughtful. But there he is. He's naked with his butt out.
01:06:12It seems like we were invited here as a gesture, but they were trying to ignore the fact that we
01:06:17were actually here.
01:06:19Do you know what I mean?
01:06:21Once we've gone, I think they want to forget about us, which is not the impression we got when we
01:06:26first came here.
01:06:29I mean, I've shot millions of footage and lots of it, but I've never seen anything quite like that.
01:06:34And it was really the first time I got to talk to him in any way.
01:06:38It's such a circus in this rock and roll stuff.
01:06:44He was very young.
01:06:47And I really had a sense that he was actually, as anybody who's young, trying to find himself,
01:06:54which isn't easy under any circumstance.
01:06:58But in the center of sort of the biggest pop, rock and roll event of the year,
01:07:03and in this foreign country, I thought this is hard, what he's doing.
01:07:09What's the show going to be like here?
01:07:11I have no idea.
01:07:31In Guangzhou, we can receive the Hong Kong radio.
01:07:35Young people started to know Western pop.
01:07:45Young people in Guangzhou love this new pop music and rock.
01:07:51How did you first hear about the web?
01:07:54Two years ago.
01:07:55Two years ago.
01:07:56Did you like their songs?
01:07:57Yes.
01:08:06I first hear the song is The Bad Boy.
01:08:10Wake me up before you go go.
01:08:11Ketelowiz by Bango.
01:08:13The
01:08:26They were very excited. They were waiting for a while.
01:08:30They were very excited. They were waiting for a while.
01:08:39I was a college student. I don't have money to buy tickets like that.
01:08:44My uncle, he was in charge of the security of the show.
01:08:50So he gave me one ticket and a cassette tape with the signature of two boys.
01:08:57George Michael entered Italy.
01:09:11The show in Guangzhou, it did feel like it was the end of a long, hard trip.
01:09:19Most people were looking forward to going home.
01:09:28But we wanted to sign off in grand style.
01:09:31We had a point to prove.
01:09:36You've got the idea.
01:09:50The
01:09:56Somebody told me
01:09:58For everything she wants
01:10:01Is everything she sees
01:10:03I guess I must have loved you
01:10:06Because I said you were the perfect girl for me
01:10:10Baby, and now I'm six months older
01:10:14And everything you want, and everything you see
01:10:18Is I was rich, not good enough
01:10:22I don't know what the hell you want from me
01:10:27Everybody's pushing to the stage and dance
01:10:29And they sing together
01:10:32Wow
01:10:33Unbelievable
01:10:37It was the same show, but with a completely different reaction
01:10:43There was no police pulling people out or telling them to not dance
01:10:48So it was a very different feeling
01:10:59Everybody got insane
01:11:04I can feel the freedom
01:11:16I remember it being more lively
01:11:19It felt like we were back onto the wham road again
01:11:27I certainly sensed George enjoying himself more on that stage
01:11:32Somebody tell me
01:11:36Won't you tell me
01:11:38Why I worked so hard for you
01:11:42Oh
01:11:43To give you money
01:11:47Why do I do the things I do
01:11:52I'd tell you if I knew
01:11:56My God
01:11:58I don't even think that I'd love you
01:12:02My eyes were on George Michael
01:12:06He's so different
01:12:08He's so sexy
01:12:11Work
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01:12:16I can see glowing and halo around him
01:12:20I was hypnotized
01:12:27The band was sensational
01:12:31And it was really one of the best gigs they've ever played
01:12:36George and Andrew were the best I'd ever seen
01:12:38I do the things I do
01:12:56Want somebody, want somebody, want somebody
01:12:59Want somebody, tell me why
01:13:10It felt like a party, which is what the Great Wham! Shows did.
01:13:15That was the brilliance of the songs.
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