Canton concert
Anderson’s Musicality in the Suppressed Film: If You Were There… John Izod, Emeritus Professor of Screen Analysis, University of Stirling The Canton Concert is the climax of the film featuring the pop group Wham (George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley) in China. Anderson assembled it in rough cut as If You Were There…. and it has […]
If you were there…
Sarah Bromage, Head of University Collections, University of Stirling Wham!’s music was the soundtrack of my childhood, and I was aware, possibly through avid reading of Smash Hits magazine, that Wham! were the first western band to tour China after the Cultural Revolution. Discovering that Lindsay Anderson had filmed a now banned documentary about this […]
