Wham! 10 Days in China
Directed by Mike Christie
In 1985, WHAM! made history as the first Western pop act to perform in communist China. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou were a cultural milestone – East meets West, music meets politics. Now, newly restored footage reveals the untold story of the iconic tour that helped launch WHAM! to global superstardom. From TMDB
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Wham! 10 Days in China grossed £239,475 ($323,222) in the United Kingdom and $45,874 in other territories, for a worldwide total of £272,000 ($368,873). On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 17 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.1/10. On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Hilary White of Irish Independent gave the film 4 stars out of 5, wrote "With so much going on, from the madcap incidents aboard the travelling rodeo – everything from “old world” officialdom to self-harm – to the broader contextual themes, Christie does fine work composing it all into…
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60 of 68 · most liked firstI've written a new piece on Wham! 10 Days in China, the documentary (which makes its UK TV premiere next week) about their 1985 visit to the country, and its reconstruction of the political, economic, and cultural imperatives behind the trip, and the tensions underlying it. 🧵 #filmsky #skystorians🗃️
neutral · AI labelView post →Got back from seeing Wham! 10 Days In China A tense trip by two young men bringing pop music to a communist country nervously opening up to the world. Really interesting film Stand outs - George playing football (I feel seen 😂) and being philosophical while getting a massage (oh…was he talking? 🔥)
positive · AI labelView post →"It’s like a crime scene: 40 years ago, Wham! went to China and bagged the evidence, but then no one ever analysed it". Mike Christie talks to SDE about his new film 'Wham! 10 Days in China' and we discuss the failings of previous attempts to tell the full story of this trip > bit.ly/4fubQOG
neutral · AI labelView post →Wham! 10 Days in China (on BBC at the moment) finally made sense of that thing I've often heard that George looked up to Andrew as someone to emulate and... Andrew could play football. It's almost as simple as that. That goes a long way when you're at school, the football lads are kings.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching "WHAM! 10 Days in China" has reminded me what an absolute banger "Everything She Wants" was. Camden Palace, baby 😎
neutral · AI labelView post →#Wham! '10 Days in China - The Live EP' will be released in December. 4 tracks, as performed live in Beijing and Guangzhou in April 1985. Vinyl and CD versions. More > bit.ly/4wHcIpN
neutral · AI labelView post →#Wham! fans will be excited to hear that a new documentary, 'Wham! 10 Days In China', is coming soon. Mike Christie's film pieces together “the untold story” using newly restored footage and interviews. More > bit.ly/3OWlNe7
neutral · AI labelView post →A reminder that Wham! 10 Days in China is on BBC 2 this evening, 9pm UK time: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... And if you want to read something (non-spoilery) about the documentary and the China trip, I wrote a piece about it when it premiered at the cinemas a few weeks back.
neutral · AI labelView post →Kids today won't believe that if you wanted to listen to pop music in the 80s* you had to go to a government owned electronics store and ask the assistant to get out the massive ghetto blaster *in China (from Wham! 10 Days in China)
neutral · AI labelView post →Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social review the doc Wham!: 10 Days in China, screening in theaters TONIGHT before, presumably, coming to physical media and streaming. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow is a BIG day for WHAM! fans (like me!). Their landmark doc #Wham10DaysInChina opens globally, for one day only. It’s pretty great! I got teary seeing George Michael performing at his peak (he never lost “it) and Andrew Ridgeley reminiscing. freshfiction.tv/wham-10-days...
positive · AI labelView post →Wham! 10 Days in China, now on BBC2, is a fascinating documentary. How China has changed in 40 years.
positive · AI labelView post →Wham! 10 Days in China will make its TV debut on BBC 2 at 9pm on Saturday 28 August. As well as reading my piece on the film, you can check out the trailer for it here. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →The documentary WHAM! 10 Days in China is now in select theaters. www.metacritic.com/movie/wham!-... “It’s a strange and riveting moment in pop and political history.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok, so WHAM! 10 Days in China is brilliant.
positive · AI labelView post →Trailers: One Night Only, WHAM!: 10 Days in China, Practical Magic 2, Little Fockers Epilepsy alert: strobe lighting when the kids party in their cabin, also seen during the credits. Post-credit scenes: Footage plays under the length of the end credits, and a small extra scene afterward.
neutral · AI labelView post →'Wham! 10 Days in China' just aired on the #BBC was fascinating & moving. Always loved Wham! & George Michael's music of exuberance, celebration & freedom. So poignant seeing a young George & Andrew knowing that George would only live to a mere 53.
positive · AI labelView post →Wham! 10 Days in China BBC 2 So many threads to unpick. George was an incredibly beautiful & talented man, & Wham! produced some bangers. But the remarkable part of this documentary is the collision of cultures, & a reminder that music can universally unite. Music is the real religion. #wham #bbc2
positive · AI labelView post →“In just over twelve months, they’d had two number one singles and a million-selling number two single (‘Last Christmas’) which was held off the coveted Christmas top spot by another million-seller (Band Aid) that George Michael was on anyway.” Wham! 10 Days In China:
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched at the cinema (most recent first): Sunny Dancer, The End of Oak Street, Spider-man: Brand New Day, and WHAM! 10 Days in China.
neutral · AI labelView post →Re-upping this for the Friday crowd: My piece on Wham! 10 Days in China, the Cold War politics and commercial ambitions that drove the 1985 trip it chronicles, the tensions in 1980s Britain the film also captures, and its mediation of the past. All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x
neutral · AI labelView post →Writing a piece about Wham! 10 Days in China, and this suddenly comes on shuffle. Serendipity…
neutral · AI labelView post →"WHAM! 10 Days In China" will be released in cinemas on July 28. I think I see Jaime FlorCruz in the trailer? www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7oA...
neutral · AI labelView post →Felt like this showed quite a different side of Wham to what was seen in the Netflix film from a few years ago. Wham! 10 Days in China (2026) recorded from BBC2.
positive · AI labelView post →WHAM! 10 Days in China was excellent.
positive · AI labelView post →My review of Wham! 10 Days In China (dir. Mike Christie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
neutral · AI labelView post →Right. Wham! 10 Days In China. I'm a fan it's no secret. That said I cannot recommend this documentary highly enough. It's got everything. Please don't dismiss it if you're not a fan. Then read Sathnam Sanhgeras's book.
positive · AI labelView post →Wham: 10 Days in China On BBC iPlayer. Absolutely brilliant. Watch. End.
positive · AI labelView post →You may recall I noted “Wham! 10 Days in China” when it got a cinema release recently. Now it’s on BBC iPlayer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t recommend #Wham 10 Days in China enough. Such a fascinating insight - both into this milestone moment in music history, and into life in China at that time. Been looking forward to this film for a while and it really didn’t disappoint. Superb, and surprisingly moving at times.
positive · AI labelView post →Wham! 10 Days in China is more evidence, if it were needed, of just how reprehensible the British tabloid press have always been. Even now, with hindsight, they can't see anything wrong with writing about a suicidal trumpeter as a "mental case". Utter scum.
negative · AI labelView post →Watching WHAM! 10 Days in China on BBC2 right now and you should be too. Mike Christie nailed this one! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
positive · AI labelView post →Wham! 10 Days in China is on BBC2 tonight at 9pm
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I was the youngest person in the cinema for 'Wham! 10 Days in China', but I had a good time.
positive · AI labelView post →Hey WHAM! fans - tickets for ‘WHAM! 10 Days In China’ have now gone on sale!
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally got time to watch - WHAM! 10 Days In China Thoroughly riveting viewing. I focused more on the young Chinese people, experiencing for the first time, something that we take for granted. In the UK it's on the BBC i-player
positive · AI labelView post →You may have noticed me obsessing over Wham! 10 Days In China and referencing the fabulous Tonight The Music Seems So Loud. @djpunctum.bsky.social did and shared this remarkable review of Make It Big. It made reassess the album and now I love it even more. nobilliards.blogspot.com/2014/06/wham...
neutral · AI labelView post →ICYMI: My piece on Wham! 10 Days in China, the Cold War politics and commercial ambitions that drove the 1985 trip it chronicles, the tensions in 1980s Britain the film also captures, and its mediation of the past. All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Wham! 10 Days in China. God, it is so sad that George isn’t here to contribute
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the Wham! - 10 Days In China thing on BBC. First into China . . . 1985. Someone want say anything to Jean-Michel Jarre (1981)? Maybe clarified saying Wham were the first western POP act Anyway - watching JMJ next
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched ‘WHAM! 10 Days In China’ (2026) which is currently on BBC iPlayer. What an incredible documentary focusing on George and Andrew’s groundbreaking trip to China being the first western group to perform there. A MUST SEE! #Wham #GeorgeMichael #AndrewRidgeley #BBCiPlayer
positive · AI labelView post →There's a sneaky bonus extra #TOTP on BBC Two later (much later!) as part of their Wham! evening. 9pm - Wham! 10 Days in China 10:25 - Wham! At the BBC 11:35 - Top of the Pops: 1985 - Big Hits I'll be tucked up in bed so please be extra snarky on my behalf if you're watching.
neutral · AI labelView post →To ight’s television highlights include Paddington 2 and Wham!: 10 Days in China 🇨🇳 and Wham! at the BBC which no doubt means Wogan. More good stuff but I don’t want to blow your mind.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good read by @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social about the Wham! 10 Days in China documentary.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hubby’s out of town for the week so I ditched the dogs at home tonight and am chillin at the local cinema for the special one-night-only WHAM! 10 DAYS IN CHINA documentary screening. 👋
neutral · AI labelView post →just watched "Wham! 10 Days in China" at the cinema. what a fucking great documentary! 💖💖💖
positive · AI labelView post →The documentary WHAM! 10 DAYS IN CHINA tells the remarkable story of how George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley became the first pop music act ever to play in communist China. It's in theaters tomorrow only! Seek it out! My review: aisleseat.com/wham-10-days... #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 12 Movies of the year so far: Again Again Blades of the Guardians Colony The Furious I Love Boosters The Rivals of Amziah King The Samurai and the Prisoner The Sheep Detectives Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma They Will Kill You Wham! 10 Days in China Umamusume - Beginning of a New Era
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Wham! 10 Days in China afterwards which was tonally different enough not to ruin things.
neutral · AI labelView post →I give 11 out of 10 to the rockumentary WHAM! 10 DAYS IN CHINA 🇨🇳 so check it out! I thought I knew it all but I didn’t know anything.
positive · AI labelView post →‘Wham! 10 Days in China’ might be the best bit of micro history since ‘The Cheese and The Worms’.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching the Wham! 10 Days In China documentary. Lots of focus on the Chinese fans, general public and their reactions to the music. Also expecting to see things I read about at the time but have forgotten since (like Trevor the breakdancer).
neutral · AI labelView post →Wham! 10 Days in China on #BBC2 now
neutral · AI labelView post →This looks like a cracking film: Wham! 10 Days in China. George Michael, fame, footage shot by Lindsay Anderson? https://youtu.be/P7oAaJqqv8w?si=6i-EIJSFrX2Lh1fl
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Wham! 10 Days in China’ Review: Pop Music History With a Secret Goal By Glenn Kenny www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wham! 10 Days in China was on at the cinema this evening, but I missed it. I hope it’s on again 😔
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching 'Wham! 10 Days in China', it is almost physically painful to see how unprepared they were, and how badly they fared, for what was a high-profile cultural relations visit.
negative · AI labelView post →New on Yours Only George! WHAM! 10 Days in China achieved strong box‑office results globally during its July 28 special event screening. www.yogworld.com/blog/2026/09... #WHAM #GeorgeMichael #AndrewRidgeley
neutral · AI labelView post →just got round to watching Wham 10 Days in China. Watching the Chinese reaction to their first introduction to Western music and thinking how lucky we are to have grown up with music. I can't imagine life without music and it's ability to take you to a time or place. #music #wham
positive · AI labelView post →The subtext of Wham! 10 Days in China is that Raul was holding them back
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