Wham!: "We're No Con!"
Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 27 September 1984
But they used to be. Wham! now think that their whole ''Bad Boys" look is "pathetic" and they "can't believe how many people bought that image". So what do they want to be now, wonders Ian Birch?
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