![]() ![]() ![]() And this final show at Wembley Arena might be the flashpoint for any such product. From the beginning, when a lucky scheduling conflict got them a spot on Top of the Pops in 1982, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were two of the flashiest stars on the pop scene.Īs an unironic fan of WHAM!'s effortless bubblegum pop, it would give this writer great pleasure to see some sort of catalogue activity occur for the boys. ![]() Top 10 (six of which were chart-toppers) and would sell about 20 million albums worldwide when all was said and done. Of course, that was par for the course for WHAM!, who had entered 11 of their 12 singles into the U.K. What other group bids their fan base (80,000 attendees worth) farewell with a handful of guest megastars and a lengthy, sugar-sweet set list? It wasn't your typical pop meltdown, however it was a breakup for the ages. On June 28, 1986, twenty-five years ago today, WHAM! became a past-tense pop act. Twenty-five years after one of pop's guiltiest pleasures said goodbye to a packed live audience, we wonder what a release of that show would look like. Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we take a look back at notable albums and the reissues they could someday see. ![]()
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