Jazz Summers obituary

Music manager who turned Wham! into a global phenomenon during the 1980sThe music manager Jazz Summers, who has died aged 71, was best known for developing the pop duo Wham! – George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley – who under his guidance became a worldwide phenomenon in the early 1980s, and the first western group to tour China. Summers moved on from Wham! to work with a long list of successful musicians, including Coldcut, the Orb, the Soup Dragons, Lisa Stansfield, Soul II Soul and,