![]() ![]() And, of course, those songs will have done some healing, of himself, of others. But also he also speaks very movingly about losing Anselmo, and how he channelled his grief and anger into his battle with Sony – and into some powerful, moving, beautiful songs, whether it was destiny or not. “I believe I was destined to feel that particular pain so that I could do the ultimate with my music in terms of healing,” George says about Older, which he wrote after the death of his Brazilian boyfriend Anselmo Feleppa. That is those Big Five 90s supermodels rather than African animals … now I’m thinking of a Cape buffalo lip-syncing along: “Free-dom! I won’t let you down.” Yes, I think that would have worked too, and a Cape buffalo probably would have got out of bed for less than Linda Evangelista.Īnyway, at times it’s a little self-indulgent. Maybe too much – falling out with your record company might be frustrating and annoying, but it it isn’t actually slavery, George, is it? The dispute is the reason the Big Five were in that Freedom video and he wasn’t, of course. There are contributions from managers and lawyers and record company executives too, as much of George Michael: Freedom is about his dispute with Sony. Plus Ricky Gervais, Tracey Emin, James Corden … Carpool Karaoke started with George Michael, since when Corden has gone on to break America, becoming the George Michael to Mathew Horne’s Andrew Ridgeley, you could say. As well as the above, Mary J Blige, Nile Rodgers, Mark Ronson, Tony Bennett. This is very much George Michael according to George Michael. He is the narrator, as well as the co-director (along with his close friend and collaborator David Austin). George Michael: Freedom is art-directed and choreographed like a pop video, although this time George does appear – mostly sitting at the window of his Highgate mansion, the tortured writer bashing away with two fingers at an old manual typewriter. The musical contributors have records with their names printed on them, which they play on similar stylish turntables. But the best line of the night award goes to … … Stevie Wonder! For: “You mean George is white, are you serious, oh my God!” Stevie Wonder may be the only person in the world who can still get away with a Stevie-Wonder-is-blind gag. ![]() “They were fucking everywhere,” he says, wisely, of Wham!. That’s Liam Gallagher the comedian, currently one of the funniest on the circuit. Elton, as you’d expect Liam, as you might not. There is starry contribution from the music biz too, of course.
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