As Wham! took to the stage in Beijing on 7 April 1985, they were making history as the first Western pop act to perform in China.

Four decades after he and George Michael became the first western pop act to tour the country, Ridgeley recalls silent gigs, awkward embassy receptions – and the ‘bloody…

Late pop star was so unimpressed with the director’s cut of the band’s historic 1985 tour of China that he refused to let it see the light of day