Thu, September 16, 2010
The video shows Wham!, the first Western pop group ever performing in China.
Wham! was a British duo formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.
In April 1985, Wham! took a break from recording to embark on an interminable world tour, including a ground-breaking 10-day visit to China, the first by a Western pop group.
The China excursion was a masterful publicity scheme devised by Simon Napier-Bell (one of their two managers—Jazz Summers being the other).
It culminated in a concert at the Workers' Gymnasium in Beijing in front of 10,000 people. Director Lindsay Anderson documented the tour in his film Foreign Skies.
