LETTER FROM BRITAIN

With the lazy, spectatorial languors of Wimbledon and cricket at The Oval upon us, the rush to see who would produce the first “post-Election protest” songs was brief. Wham! (Andy Ridgeley and George Michael, the dole-queue-downbeat duo who switched from street threads to leather-queen slicks to become “Bad Boys”) have taken the teenies by storm with this week’s release of their Fantastic LP.