Mercer's Location. 50 miles north of Bismarck, North Dakota on Hwy 41. 10 miles east of Turtle Lake, North Dakota on Hwy 200. 13 miles west of McClusky, North Dakota on Hwy 200. Mercer Centennial.
Michael formed the duo Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. The band's first album Fantastic reached No. 1 in the UK in 1983 and produced a series of top 10 singles including Young Guns, Wham Rap! and Club Tropicana. Their second album, Make It Big, reached No. 1 on the charts in the US.
He is best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is also known as a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys (under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury), and his early band Mudcrutch.