Wham! their tour of China, received its world premiere as part of the festivities. For several years after becoming a solo artist, Michael spoke negatively, in public, about his time with Wham, partly because of the negativity of intense media coverage on Ridgeley. Michael complained of the constant pressure he felt, and he claimed that the duo had been mistreated financially. He also spoke disparagingly about some of the videos and songs from the Wham repertoire, especially the video from "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", and the songs from Fantastic. However, his perspective on the era softened somewhat in the
Locomotion No. 1 Railway Museum, and is part of the National Collection. The original locomotive is too fragile to return to steam, so a working replica was built in 1975, and is resident at Beamish Museum. Locomotion No. 1 Locomotion" No. 1 (originally named Active") was an early steam locomotive built by the pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm, Robert Stephenson and Company. It became the first steam locomotive to haul a passenger carrying train on a public railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR). "Locomotion No. 1" was ordered by the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company in