He loved pop so dearly, he turned himself into its embodiment, and an unashamed advocate of its merits. Like a lot of disenchanted preteens, Michael took solace in the escapism of pop music, and he obsessively studied how hit songs were arranged. “I was such an ugly little bastard.” Watch Billboard's George Michael mini-documentary, where Mark Goodman, John Norris and Shannon Adducci reflect on his career through the lens of five key Wham! And solo songs.

“People have no comprehension of what I looked like as a kid,” he said, laughing. But one of the most striking things about him was the discrepancy between the poised, clever sex symbol I was talking to and his accounts of growing up outside London. Michael, at the age of 53 on Christmas Day, had enduring faith in his talent. They think they’ll be able to rise above their problems because they’re famous - which obviously isn’t true.”. I’d had a bad day at school - I’d been picked on - and I remember thinking it would be OK when I was older, because I wasn’t going to be like everybody else. “I remember being on a bus when I was a child, about 8 or 9. “From a really early age, I believed I was going to be a star,” he told me when I interviewed him at length in 1986.

udp://:80/announce.Īfter an 18-month rehab stint, Michael had been looking to release new songs that were 'totally pop' along the lines of his smash 1987 LP.

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