The Singles: Echoes From the Edge of Heaven (CD Singles Box Set)

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Single 2: Young Guns (Go for It!) b/w Going for It (released as Innervision U.K. single IVL A2766, 1982) WHAM! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven will be released as a deluxe 7” box set. The stylish collection includes all the singles, plus additional content. More than 40 years after they took the U.K. - and then the world - by storm, the story of pop duo WHAM! will be told in a multi-format compilation, issued just after a new documentary set for release this summer. Best of all, George and Andrew’s friendship was as strong at the end as it was in the beginning. WHAM! never got old and they never lost their exclamation mark!

Single 1: Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) b/w Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) (Club Mix) (released as Innervision U.K. single IVL A2442, 1982)

While the duo wrote most of the material for Fantastic together, both realized that Michael (just barely 20 when the LP hit stores) was becoming a once-in-a-generation talent as a songwriter and studio craftsman. His musical vision propelled the next album, 1984's aptly-titled Make It Big: from the horn-laden sugar rush of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and the Motown-lite "Freedom" to the brooding "Everything She Wants." (Ironically, the duo wrote one of the album's biggest hits, one that's not included here as it was released in the U.K. as George's debut solo single: the immortal "Careless Whisper.")

The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven is arguably the most comprehensive look at the work of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley as they combined their glossy good looks with an almost unsuspecting penchant for pop brilliance. In just five short years, the pair notched nearly a dozen singles into the U.K. Top 10, helping establish Michael as one of the decade's most gifted artists. The collection will be available July 7 in several different physical formats: Celebrating 40 years of one of the biggest and best-loved pop acts of all time, this is what the fans have been waiting for - Wham! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven. The 10 CD box contains all 11 singles (A and B sides) in replica 7” vinyl sleeves. In 1985, WHAM! became the first western group to perform in China, where two rapturously received concerts broke countless cultural barriers! George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley formed WHAM! in 1981.The lifelong friends who met at secondary school in the small town of Bushey became one of the most globally successful pop acts of the 1980s, selling more than thirty million records worldwide. Several pop generations down the line, this treasure trove of musical gems continues to inspire legions of new fans!Single 5: Club Fantastic Megamix b/w A Ray of Sunshine (Instrumental Mix) (released as Innervision U.K. single A3586, 1983) Celebrating 40 years of one of the biggest and best-loved pop acts of all time, this is what the fans have been waiting for - Wham! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven. Featuring all 11 hit singles on strictly limited blue vinyl in a gatefold sleeve exclusive to HMV & Indies. George and Andrew released eleven singles as WHAM!. Incredibly, five of them (Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Freedom, Last Christmas, I’m Your Man and The Edge Of Heaven) were British Number 1s. Meanwhile, in the United States, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Careless Whisper and Everything She Wants were chart toppers: remarkably, all three were from the same album, Make It Big, which sold six million copies in America alone. Elsewhere, the boys topped the charts in a host of countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Holland, Italy, Ireland, South Africa and Switzerland!

On June 28 1986, WHAM! The Final saw the duo depart in a blaze of glory in front of seventy two thousand people at Wembley Stadium. The concert included performances by their friends Elton John and Simon Le Bon!

Celebrating 40 years of one of the biggest and best-loved pop acts of all time, this is what the fans have been waiting for - Wham! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven. Featuring all 11 hit singles (A and B sides) on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.