Ridgeley didn't get his only solo album out until 1990.Netflix's new documentary on Wham! is a gorgeous snapshot of the friendship between George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. There's hundreds of stories about the bond they shared, but here's another nice one we heard.
During Robbie Williams' first coke bloat era (post-Take That; Glastonbury with the Gallaghers) he found himself at Jimmyz nightclub in Monte Carlo where he saw George Michael on the dance floor. Aware that every boy band member who went solo always said something along the lines of "I want to be the next George Michael!" Robbie thought it might be funny to turn that whole trope on its head.
So he went up to George and said: "I wanna be the next Andrew Ridgeley..."
A line which not only failed to raise a smile out of George, but caused George to look Robbie dead in the eye and snap: "DON'T take the piss out of Andrew."
he's come up so often in "where are now?" articles that he's still famous.
in the early 90s he headed off to Cornwall to retire into the surfing life.
Andy's main personal problems since were getting ill from water contaminated by sewage where he and his brother Paul were surfing. Andrew later became a prominent campaigner on the issue.
Also his long realtionship to Keren from Bananarama ended in the late 2010's.
Other than that he's probably had a great time for the last few decades.
edit: fixed mistakes!
Used to love WHAM!
George is standing in front of CRASS logo graffiti at 0:35 in the trailer.
the saddest thing about George was how much he needed validation - on a huge scale.
the doc. he was working on that came out after he died was really sad.
introduced by Kate Moss (detest her) it was all other famous folks talking about George.
No family or friends. Don't think the rest of Wham! (even Andrew) were interviewed for it.
poor guy.