WHAM! GEORGE ME : THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – ANDREW RIDGELEY

Celebrate 40 years of WHAM! with the Sunday Times bestseller from one half of the world s most famous bands I couldn t put it down. Such a fantastic book Chris Evans, Virgin Radio ________ School mates. Band mates. Soul mates . . . When Andrew Ridgley took George Michael, the new boy at school, under his wing, he discovered a soul mate. In Wham! George and Me, Andrew tells the story of how they rode a rollercoaster of success around the world while making iconic records and surviving superstardom with their friendship intact. It is a memoir of love, music, the flamboyant 1980s and living in a pop hurricane. No one else can ever tell their story – because no one else was there . . . Forty years on from their explosion into pop music, Andrew Ridgeley tells the inside story of Wham!, his life-long friendship with George Michael and the formation of a band that changed music. ________ A joyous celebration of the Wham! years. For anyone who was a teenager in the early 1980s, it will take you on a nostalgia trip. It s an honest but affectionate account of a remarkable duo who remained true to their origins and their friendship throughout it all Daily Express As infectious as their music Daily Mirror A remarkably generous memoir. In more than one sense, the biography of a friend Spectator A great story Saturday Live, Radio 4 A lovely book. A love letter to George Graham Norton, BBC One Charming, heartfelt . . . there s a real poignancy to Ridgeley s description of Wham! s glory days Sunday Times