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But strange it was in April 1985, when the British pop duo Wham!
Hair was bleached and feathered.

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Jackets were pastel colored.
And audiences had never seen nor heard anything like it in their lives.
It was like a one-off cultural brain fart, he says.
performed in China, nothing else happened for another five years.
To make the concert happen, Wham!
Simon, the guy who did the Wham!
thing, was way ahead, light-years ahead, Bull says.
The guys a legend on a whole another level.
Cheng, who recorded Chinese-language covers of Wham!
My heart was jumping out of my chest.
George Michaeldied on Christmas Day.