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Andrew Ridgeley is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as one half of the musical duo Wham!, along with George Michael. Wham! achieved significant success in the 1980s with hit songs like "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Careless Whisper." Ridgeley contributed to the songwriting and performed as a vocalist and guitarist in the band. After Wham!'s disbandment, Ridgeley pursued other interests but remains a respected figure in the history of pop music.

People get very put out when someone is as forceful in their views and in their methods as George is.

I used to love going out to discos. Chatting up th... -Andrew Ridgeley

I used to love going out to discos. Chatting up the girls, getting a dance.

George probably wanted to be rich and famous - most of us do, I think - but I don't think he ever wanted to be a star.

It's an amazing privilege to perform for an audien... -Andrew Ridgeley

It's an amazing privilege to perform for an audience paying to hear the music that you've recorded.

On Christmas Day 2016, the greatest singer songwriter of his generation, an icon of his era, George Michael, was lost. A supernova in the shining stars had been extinguished and it felt like the sky had fallen in.

George is so prolific as a writer.... -Andrew Ridgeley

George is so prolific as a writer.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotiona... -Andrew Ridgeley

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

Give yourself a healthy bit of distance between your fame and reality because they are two different things.

There are people much better placed to make music ... -Andrew Ridgeley

There are people much better placed to make music than me. It's always been a young person's game.

To actually pursue our ambition to its zenith, we should have made another album, because in the States we'd only had one successful album. In a sense, Wham! failed in its ultimate goal, even though it got 75 or 95 percent of the way there.

My material contribution musically was less than George's, and George and I have both always been very open about that.

A terrible additional worry was the emergence of AIDS. I know I wasn't the only friend of George's who worried about him during that uncertain, frightening period.

We were in a little bubble to a degree, but you'd never really know what was going on elsewhere, you'd done a tour in the States and then you wouldn't really know what the reaction was out of the shows because it wasn't immediate on Instagram and Twitter. It wasn't perhaps as broad as it is these days, it was fab though.

I achieved my ambition early in life.... -Andrew Ridgeley

I achieved my ambition early in life.

The success came very quickly and it was a different age so one's awareness, especially in a global sense wasn't quite the same as it was these days because of social media and because of the huge variety of media that people are exposed to.

It's 33 years since we drew Wham! to a close and a lot of people's perspectives have changed and a lot of the rough edges have been knocked off.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain Geor... -Andrew Ridgeley

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

We were both dabbling with music but no, I persuaded George, railroaded him really into forming a band. I think we both had the belief that we would make it. That was the central pillar around everything else.

George's contribution to the great archive of contemporary music rests alongside the immortals. His is a legacy of unquestionable brilliance and one which will continue to shine and resonate for generations to come.

I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record a... -Andrew Ridgeley

I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics.

It started out ordinarily enough: In 1975, we were two boys that happened to share a mutual sense of humor, a love of life-affirming music, the records and artists it gave birth to, and a shared sense that we understood it.

We made a decision very early on that George would be the main songwriter because it was very apparent to all of us that he was better at it.

For a while, I really wasn't fussed about having a public profile. I have come to the realization that I am a lot more comfortable with it than I was.

One of the artists I most admire is David Lee Roth. I think his combination of humor, glamour, sex and energy is one of the best there is. He also writes great songs.

The video for 'Last Christmas' was shot in the early winter of 1984 in the Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee. It was a glorious affair, and the two days we spent shooting it were a riot of laughter and fun, which I think comes across.

I could see no other way of doing something with m... -Andrew Ridgeley

I could see no other way of doing something with my life apart from music.

One has to spend time sort of really going back through one's memories. When you do start doing that then, you do recall more as time goes on.

I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence and electricity that suffused the music we made.

George is very, very single-minded in his approach. And I think a lot of the things that he has said and done have been misconstrued as arrogant rather than the single-mindedness they really are.

The great thing about dancing is it's a way to get... -Andrew Ridgeley

The great thing about dancing is it's a way to get close to a beautiful woman you have never met.

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