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Fans arrested for dancing, a mid-air stabbing and an offer of 6,000 bikes as payment: As a film is released about the first tour of China by a Western pop band, Andrew Ridgeley on why Wham! saw red there
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took to the stage in Beijing on 7 April 1985, they were making history as the first Western pop act to perform in China.
to garner headlines in the States was for them to be the first Western band to breach the Chinese wall.
At the time, 'George was obviously wrestling with lots of different things, not least his future with Andrew,' says Mike.
Most of the audience in Beijing had never heard Western pop music; it was a lot louder than they were used to and involved a lot more movement.
It was a great privilege being the first to play real Western pop music to those people.'