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.
The Band was a Canadian-American roots rock group formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1968 by Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon Helm. The members of The Band first came together as they joined the rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins's backing group, the Hawks, one by one between 1958 and 1963. In 1964, they separated from Hawkins, after which they toured and released a few singles as Levon and the Hawks and the Canadian Squires. The next year, Bob Dylan hired them for