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Additional information about this Wham vinyl art.
Wham – The Artist/s
Wham were an English musical duo formed by school friends George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. After three successful albums Wham became one of the most successful pop acts of the 1980s. They made a highly publicised 10-day visit to China, the first by a Western pop group and sold more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. George Michael was keen to create music targeted at a more sophisticated adult market rather than the duo’s primarily teenage audience, and therefore split to continue working as a solo artist.
Freedom – The Song
Freedom is a 1984 song by English pop duo Wham! from their album Make It Big, released on 1 October 1984. It became the group’s second number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and reached number three in America. It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. The melody of the song’s chorus was used by Michael as an introduction to his song, “Faith”, played on a church organ. The music video, coinciding with the 1985 US release, features the band touring around Beijing, China. Their visit to the nation was significant because they were the first Western pop band to play China.
George Micheal – The Shape
This record has been modelled into the side profile of George Michael wearing his distinctive crucifix earring that he wore at the time. A crucifix (from the Latin cruci fixus meaning ‘(one) fixed to a cross’) is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus (Latin for ‘body’).
The crucifix is a principal symbol for many groups of Christians, and one of the most common forms of the Crucifixion in the arts.
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