Ex-Wham Manager Simon Napier-Bell Joins Bigsound 2023 Lineup

Simon Napier-Bell, the celebrated author, filmmaker and artist manager, who guided the careers of Rock Hall inductee George Michael and Wham and introduced the duo to Chinese audiences for a historic 10-day visit in the mid-'80s, becoming the first Western pop act to do so, joins the lineup of speakers for Bigsound 2023. The British allrounder's addition to the daytime Bigsound program is a timely one, coming fresh off the release of the popular Netflix documentary Wham, in which he appears. It was Napier-Bell who masterminded Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's trip to China in 1985, a trailblazing moment that was…