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On Christmas Day, 2016,
we heard with shock
and disbelief...
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...that our dear friend,
George Michael,
had passed away.
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Only days before,
he was putting
the finishing touches
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to the film you're about to see.
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This is George's film, Freedom,
and it's his final work.
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♪ Looking for some education
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♪ Make my way into the night
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♪ All that bullshit
Conversation
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♪ Baby, can't you read
The signs
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♪ I won't bore you
With the details, baby
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♪ I don't even wanna waste
Your time
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♪ Let's just say that maybe
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♪ You could help me
Ease my mind
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♪ I ain't Mr. Right
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♪ But if you're looking for
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♪ Fast love
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♪ If that's love
In your eyes
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♪ It's more than enough
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♪ Had some bad love
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♪ So, fast love is all that
I've got
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♪ On my mind
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[POP MUSIC PLAYING]
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♪ I can give you
All the loving
That your heart
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♪ I can give you
All the loving
That your heart
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♪ I can give you
All the loving
That your heart
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♪ Desires
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NARRATOR:
In 1988, George Michael became
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the biggest selling artist
in the world.
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This is the story
of just how fame and tragedy
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intervened to change
his life forever.
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GEORGE MICHAEL:
I was massively unhappy
and lonely.
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I remember standing there
with a tear
in my eye, thinking,
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"I really don't know
if I'll ever do this again."
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And it changed everything
from that day to this.
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I was single,
I hadn't come out.
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If I could have
the self-awareness
and the strength to walk away,
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I could change my life.
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I felt that stepping back
would save me
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from somehow screwing up
my career.
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MICHAEL: Uh...
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Yeah, waiting please.
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MAN: We got them.
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WOMAN 1: I first became aware
of George Michael's music
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when I was hardly like...
I was definitely a little girl.
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WOMAN 2:
I think his music was really...
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It's just there in your psyche.
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I just think it's not even
taken for granted.
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It's just there in the ether.
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♪ There ain't no point
In moving on
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♪ 'Till you've got somewhere
To go
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♪ And the road that I have
Walked upon
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♪ Well, it filled my pockets
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♪ And emptied out my soul
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WOMAN 2:
He's got a voice like an angel.
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There are certain songs
that you could ask George
just to sing,
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and it would make people cry,
just the resonance
of his voice.
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♪ And some of them
Are about you♪
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MAN 1: It comes from someone
who has felt pain,
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and it comes from someone
who has a deep talent.
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♪ Now I know there's no way
I can right those wrongs
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♪ Believe me I would not lie
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MAN 2: George is
in the category
of many of us
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who had been blessed
with the gift of music.
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♪ But you once said
There's a way back
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♪ For every man
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♪ So, here I am
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WOMAN: There's no voice
like his on the radio.
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♪ Oh, don't people change?
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♪ Here I am
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♪ Is it too late
To try again?
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♪ Here I am
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I've genuinely believed that
there's something very odd
about people in my position.
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But the central belief that
my musical journey
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would be of my own making
has been the thing
that's informed
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almost every decision
I've ever made in terms
of my career.
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I have a musical ability
which was...
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powered as a young,
as a teenager, it was powered by
this desperate ambition
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to be famous and to be loved
and respected, whatever.
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And all I wanted at that time
was success.
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♪ I'm sorry
If I smoked your plan♪
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MICHAEL: I had no master plan,
I didn't know if I was gonna be
a singer or anything.
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But, at school, I met Andrew,
and we formed this Ska band
called The Executive,
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and we were terrible basically.
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But Andrew and I had
already developed a knack
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for writing these catchy
little songs,
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and we got together
a couple of tracks.
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One was called
"Careless Whisper"
and one was called "Wham Rap!"
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♪ You got soul on the dole?
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♪ You're gonna have a good time
Down on the line♪
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The '80s was probably one of the
most depressing,
sort of, demoralizing times
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that we've ever had
for young people
in British history,
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because the recession,
because of everything,
because of mass unemployment.
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So, I think music, then,
was probably really,
really important.
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In terrible depression,
you have the people that
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come out and say,
"This is terrible.
This is terrible depression."
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♪ This town
Town
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♪ Is comin' like a ghost town
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And then you have
the escapists...
things that go, "Let's party."
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♪ Young Guns having some fun
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♪ Crazy ladies keep 'em
On the run
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♪ Wise guys realize
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♪ There's danger
In emotional ties
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♪ See me, single and free
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♪ No tears, no fears,
What I want to be
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♪ One, two,
Take a look at you
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♪ Death by matrimony
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The day
after First of the Pops,
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I was just convinced that
everyone would recognize me.
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You know, I was walking
down the street like...
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"Watch TV last night?"
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And I think it took about
three days
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before someone came up
and asked me for my autograph,
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and I was absolutely shattered
that it took that long.
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♪ A married man
You're out of your head
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♪ Sleepless nights
On an H.P. bed
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♪ A daddy by the time
You're 21
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♪ If you're happy with a nappy
Then you're in for fun
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RICKY GERVAIS:
It wasn't all sugary.
He was singing about
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being on the dole
and having kids.
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And, you know,
there was a bit
of social commentary there,
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and he was embracing this
newfangled thing called rap,
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you know, dressed like someone
from West Side Story.
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We should have known then.
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Then, "Club Tropicana"
taught us,
"Don't worry, you can sun tan."
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He predicted global warming
way before its time.
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♪ Club Tropicana
Drinks are free
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I mean, I can't get the little
white shorts out of my head.
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♪ Call me good
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♪ Call me bad
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♪ Call me anything
You want...♪
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I'll be very honest.
I was a Culture Club fan.
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And we used to throw eggs
at the Wham! fans.
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They were massive, weren't they?
George Michael,
and it was like...
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They were just
fucking everywhere,
weren't they?
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♪ Baby, I'm your man
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Anyone of my generation,
you really can't remember
the first time
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you heard about George Michael
if you grew up in the UK
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because he's just
part of the fabric of it.
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So, there is a time of one
which was like a lot of fun.
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I was going to club
like ... etcetera.
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And we'd have a lot of fun
and we loved it.
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It was truly representing
the time, you know?
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♪ Oh yeah
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I'm sure I could,
me older brother...
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I'm sure he had a bit
of a Wham! moment,
you know what I mean?
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♪ Somebody told me
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♪ Boy, everything she wants
Is everything she sees♪
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GERVAIS: And I already felt
I was too old to like them.
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I felt a bit ashamed that
I was liking this teen band,
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but they were great.
They had something else.
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They had a lot more.
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♪ And now you tell me that
You're having my baby
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♪ I'll tell you that I'm happy
If you want me to
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♪ But one step further...
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MICHAEL: Wham! itself
was an absolute joy.
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It was as joyous as it sounded.
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They say youth is wasted
on the young.
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My God,
what a wonderful joyride
for two 18-year-olds.
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♪ Wake me up before you go-go
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MICHAEL: There was a humor
about Wham! that no one ever
gave us credit for.
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We were so taking the piss
out of ourselves half the time.
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How can the country be in love
with these two idiots?
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I knew how to make these
records and how to make them
jump out of the radio.
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And the idea that just
because I was wearing
ridiculous shorts
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and curtain rings in my ears
would actually stop people
from noticing that.
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When I look back,
I still think it's kind
of stunning.
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I mean, everything happened
kind of incrementally for us.
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But there was
never a point where I thought,
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"My God, I'm more famous than
I expected to be,"
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because I was so busy
thinking about trying
to get to the next level.
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But, I always believed,
deep down,
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that once I had my foot
in the door, no one
was gonna get me out.
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♪ Yeah, yeah
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♪ I'm like a maniac
At the end of the day
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♪ I'm like a doggie
Barking at your door...♪
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It's so hard to remember
the day of the final,
because it went so perfectly.
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It was like a dream, really.
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I know that there was this
overwhelming feeling
of pride,
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and also a horrible awareness
that meant
a kind of end for Andrew and I.
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But on that final day,
I remember us
hugging each other
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and knowing that there
was something incredibly sad
going on
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at the same time that
we were celebrating, you know.
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By the end of it,
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I had no doubt that I could
become an international
solo success.
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And as though there's always
been this red line,
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I see it like a red line
which goes through everything.
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Like a staircase
to whatever you're
about to do next.
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And I could feel that
at the final concert.
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I already had one foot
in my solo career.
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Okay.
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CROWD: [CHANTING]
We want more! We want more!
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That's enough of that.
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I'm not ever going to be
a fan of a boy band, right?
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It's not going to happen.
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When he went solo,
the whole thing went up
ten notches.
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♪ Time can never mend
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♪ The careless whispers
Of a good friend♪
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I think he was the first one
that was definitely
an obvious teen band
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to then go on to be
a serious singer, songwriter
and take over the world.
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♪ There's things that you guess
And things that you know♪
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GERVAIS: It's still very rare
for an act like that to go
to America.
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The '80s just spawned
this handful
of massive celebrities
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that were
constantly battling the charts.
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♪ That's all I wanted
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♪ Something special,
Something sacred
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♪ In your eyes
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♪ For just one moment...
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MICHAEL: There was really,
Prince, Madonna, Jackson,
and myself.
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And I just didn't feel
who I was,
was bright enough,
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or kind of vivid enough
to compete, because they
were different people.
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They seemed to be
much more larger than life.
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If I was looking for happiness,
this was the wrong road.
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But I don't think there's
any way I could have
controlled my ego enough
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to have stopped me
exploring the possibility
of being
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the biggest selling artist
in the world.
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So, I went with full gusto
into creating a new character.
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You know, one that I thought
would be
resilient enough
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to stand up there next
to Madonna and Jackson
and Prince.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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George Michael.
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MICHAEL: And I guess I did that
pretty effectively,
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alongside what was
a very, very commercial record.
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♪ Well, I guess
It would be nice
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♪ If I could touch your body
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♪ I know not everybody
Has got a body like you♪
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The attitude, he was creating,
like, a personage
as we call it, you know.
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He was very charismatic.
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Every video
was a very strong impact.
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♪ Oh, but I need some time off
From that...♪
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GAULTIER: He is, like,
coming in jeans, you know,
and like tight and sexy.
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And like a rock image and moving
with the hips like that.
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You know, a little
like Wham! before, you know.
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A little like that,
but more, like, sexy.
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Check this out then,
modern day Elvis.
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♪ Faith, I gotta have...
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I liked the spirit of "Faith",
because you do have to have it.
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I remember his "Baby, ow!"
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♪ Baby
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Yeah, I remember that.
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MICHAEL: I didn't realize
that people would look
at the "Faith" image
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and go, "Fuck, that's cool."
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♪ I'm givin' you the blues
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I was really, really
overwhelmed by the size
of things, I suppose.
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I lived in fucking sunglasses.
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I couldn't make eye contact
with people. It was bizarre.
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♪ And another who tied me
Down to loverboy rules♪
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I still suffered terribly
with insecurity about my looks.
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It goes back
to a family background
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where conceit of any kind
was considered an absolute sin.
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So, no one
was ever praised about
the way they looked.
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♪ Well, I need someone
To hold me
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♪ But I'll wait
For somethin' more
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♪ Yes, I gotta have faith
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"Faith" was number one
in Britain for one week.
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But in America,
number one for 12 weeks.
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And then on top of that,
he had four number one singles,
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a number two single
and a number five single.
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In 1988, he was the biggest
pop star in the world.
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♪ Because I gotta have faith
Faith, faith
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♪ I gotta have faith,
Faith, faith♪
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All I remember is "Faith"
being played 50 times a day
on MTV.
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You had to be in heavy
rotation on whatever
pop station you were on.
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Duran Duran, David Bowie,
Eurythmics was played
on MTV, like, constantly,
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played on all
the video stations.
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You really didn't hear
any of those artists,
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but you heard George Michael,
on some of the urban stations,
right after Luther Vandross.
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His music broke through
to everybody.
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MICHAEL: In America,
radio play for me
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was substantial
on a lot of R&B stations.
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He uniquely achieved recognition
on the R&B soul charts
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that very few white performers
ever got.
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He obviously had studied
American soul music,
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and felt a connection
and a kindred spirit.
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We were introduced
to each other,
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so, we're going back now
to about '86 maybe.
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And it was his thought
that he wanted to
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do a duet
with one of my artists.
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♪ Like a warrior that fights
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♪ And wins the battle
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MICHAEL:
When I was about six or seven,
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I had a wind-up gramophone
that my mum gave me.
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I had two Supreme singles,
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one wasStop! In the Name
of Love and one
wasBaby Love.
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And I hadDelilah by Tom Jones,
which is funny,
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because I kind of ended up
somewhere between
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the Supremes and Tom Jones
when you think about it.
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♪ I know you did
Kept my faith
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♪ When the river was deep
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♪ I didn't falter
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♪ When the mountain was high
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♪ I still believed
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♪ When the valley was low
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♪ It didn't stop me
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♪ It didn't stop me
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♪ No
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♪ I knew you were waiting
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♪ Some place♪ Somewhere
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♪ Somehow♪ For me♪
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MICHAEL:
It was great that I had my
own voice
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and I had worked
with Aretha Franklin,
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and everything
had gone so well.
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From an artistic point of view,
it just got better and better.
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George Michael's voice, to me,
was always very soulful,
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and it was very warm,
and sultry and urgent.
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He has soul. Period.
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Soul is an expression
of the soul, of the heart.
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MICHAEL:
It was good to be number one
in the black charts.
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It was an amazing
thing to see, obviously.
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England has a great love
affair with
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American black music and R&B
and a great tradition of
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our own interpretation
of soul music and that thing,
but he's...
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He's kind of up there,
at the pinnacle of it.
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♪ But remember this
Every other kiss
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♪ That you ever give
Long as we both live
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♪ When you need the hand
Of another man
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♪ One you really can
Surrender with
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♪ I will wait for you
Like I always do
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♪ There's something there
That can't compare
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♪ With any other
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MICHAEL: Making that album,
I'm sure I was incredibly
proud of it,
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but I don't think I ever
imagined it would be
bigger than Wham!.
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RODGERS:
I imagine that the pressure
on someone like George
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must have been insane,
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because he was doing stuff
that was just
so phenomenal.
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After you have
that kind of success,
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like, what do you
go home at night and go,
"Now, what do I do?"
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MICHAEL:
I do remember it being
shocking to me
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that I could become more
successful than I had
been with Wham!
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I suppose the whole
exercise was an effort to
raise my profile
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to kind of define what
my solo image
was going to be.
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But I really had no idea
how effective
it was going to be,
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especially in America.
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And I had no idea what
it was like to be that big
in America.
334
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WOMAN: George is really,
really private
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and I think, when he was young,
with all that fame,
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I just think it came too fast,
and it wasn't actually
what he was expecting.
337
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I was probably
most out of control,
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in any kind of sense of that,
during the whole "Faith" thing.
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Being caught in the eye
of this storm
is catastrophic.
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It's just 24/7 full time
in your face.
341
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I mean, the wind burn
is terrible.
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MICHAEL: I can't really explain
how overwhelming
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that kind of hysteria can be
if there's only one person
to absorb it.
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When I was with Andrew,
it was so easy to keep
one foot in my old life,
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the life that I had known
with him before
we'd been famous.
346
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It was so easy
to keep each other grounded,
347
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to take the piss out
of each other,
348
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and be able to look
at each other
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and talk about the madness
that was going on around us.
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But when you can't do that,
suddenly, it is scary.
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I don't know many 24-year-olds
who would not have,
at least subconsciously,
352
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,080
found that frightening enough
to self-destruct.
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PAUL RUSSELL:
Now the problem is,
the record came out
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everywhere in the world,
pretty much at the same time.
355
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,880
So, everybody wanted
a piece of George
to help promote the album.
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Enormous pressure.
357
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Huge, huge pressure.
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MICHAEL:
Ten months of that was enough
to really push me to the edge.
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00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,200
And I was terribly lonely,
you know?
360
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,080
Me and my red line
were very lonely.
361
00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:44,080
And the only good part
of my day was playing live.
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00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,720
When I sang
"Careless Whisper"...
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I can't remember which
was the last gig
on the American tour,
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which would have been
the end of the whole tour.
365
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,760
I think it was Pensacola.
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00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,440
But when I sang
"Careless Whisper" that night,
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I remember standing there,
with a tear
in my eye, thinking,
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00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,640
"I really don't know
if I'll ever do this again."
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♪ Time can never mend
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♪ The careless whispers
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♪ Of a good friend
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♪ To the heart and mind
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♪ Ignorance is kind
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♪ There's no comfort
In the truth
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♪ Pain is all
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I was intelligent enough
to know I should not be trying
to catch up with
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Michael Jackson or Madonna
or whatever,
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00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:28,200
which was absolutely what
I was intent on doing.
379
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:35,240
I felt that tired and exhausted
at being the center
of that much attention.
380
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,720
I suppose the way my lack
of mental balance showed itself
381
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was that I actually
really began
to hide away when I got home.
382
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,640
And I did almost nothing
for a year,
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00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:51,120
but try and reestablish
some idea of the real life.
384
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,320
Music was
my very controlling lover.
385
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,880
I had millions of lovers
that I never saw
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00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,400
other than
in the sense of live work.
387
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,800
But I still deserved one.
388
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,320
Just one of them for me.
389
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,440
And I knew that
the only way I was gonna find
that one person,
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00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,200
that lover,
was to jump off
of the merry-go-round
391
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,600
just for long enough
to catch my breath,
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00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:28,520
and letting my heart rule
my head, rather than,
you know, the red line.
393
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,920
The red line that goes
up, up, up, up, up, up.
394
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,080
Sometimes you feel like he's...
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He's got, like, a layer or two
of skin missing.
396
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:47,080
Like he just,
like he bruises easier,
397
00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,920
and because of that,
he can write
these amazing songs.
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00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,400
I never wanted
to be someone else.
399
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:57,080
I wanted to be a star,
and I wanted people to love me
and recognize me in the street.
400
00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:58,400
As a child,
that's what I wanted,
401
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,960
but I never really wanted
to be someone else.
402
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,120
I believe I am a writer
much more than I am
anything else.
403
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,200
And I want to leave songs.
404
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,720
I believe I can leave songs
that will be, will mean
something to other generations.
405
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,960
This award is for
favorite soul and R&B album.
406
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:23,320
And the winner is,
George Michael.
407
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,040
George Michael.
408
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,160
I've been a lover of soul music
since I was a kid.
409
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,240
And I'd just like to thank
everybody who has helped me
this year.
410
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,040
I'd like to thank Black Radio,
I'd like to thank everyone
at CBS Records,
411
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,200
in the R&B department.
412
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,680
And I'd like to thank everyone
who voted for me.
413
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,240
I can't believe it.
Thank you very much.
414
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,600
I won these two awards
that were traditionally
received by black artists.
415
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,040
And I think there
was a perception
that it had gone too far.
416
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,320
The black male artist
works very hard to get his due,
417
00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:14,400
and Bobby Brown
had across the board play.
418
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,160
And he could compete
in the same category
as George Michael competes in.
419
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,840
That would be
a whole another thing.
420
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,840
I didn't ask to be given
those awards,
421
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,200
I'm not going to pretend
I wasn't happy to get them.
422
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,760
But I do understand
what the argument that says,
423
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,440
"This guy is just
an acceptable version
of black music
424
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,960
for White America."
425
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000
Suddenly, crossover
was not hip.
426
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,360
And I see that point.
I totally saw the point
at the time.
427
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,040
I just felt it was sad,
you know,
428
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,600
that white and black people
recording together,
429
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,080
suddenly was, kind of,
dancing with the enemy.
430
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:51,840
You mean George is white?
431
00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:54,360
Are you serious?
432
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:55,840
Oh, my God!
433
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,160
And he is blind, right?
434
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,160
I think it had
a huge effect on George,
435
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,440
because he'd won
in this category,
436
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,160
he'd achieved something
that was beyond
his wildest dreams,
437
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,920
only to have the carpet pulled
from under his feet.
438
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:17,360
I don't think there's
any attempt to, kind of,
steal black heritage
439
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:18,800
in what I'm doing.
440
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,520
All I think that's happening is
I'm trying to make good music.
441
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,200
Music is not based on
the color of one's skin,
442
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,680
or, you know, this is soul music
or this is pop.
443
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,880
To me, those things are like,
it's kind of old.
444
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:31,960
You know what I mean?
445
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,440
MICHAEL: I suddenly couldn't
get anywhere near radio,
Black Radio.
446
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:45,960
And that
was the reason, really,
447
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,800
Listen Without Prejudice
was called
Listen Without Prejudice.
448
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,320
It was me saying,
"Here's an album that has bits
of gospel, you know,
449
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,160
bits of R&B,
some very white stuff,"
450
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,480
and it was just trying to say,
"Let me be
both of these things
451
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,040
"without having to be
one or the other."
452
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,040
LIAM GALLAGHER:
I don't know if I
bought it, stole it,
453
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,160
or it just, sort of like,
just got delivered.
454
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,000
You know, I mean, sometimes you
get albums like that, don't you?
455
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,480
You know what I mean?
They're that great,
they just end up in your house.
456
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:16,960
ELTON JOHN:
What can I say about
the sound of it?
457
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,440
It's very ethereal.
458
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,920
It has a mystery about it.
459
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:25,120
George, on this album,
got everything that he had
inside his gut,
460
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,240
onto vinyl or CD or cassette.
461
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,480
And thank God he did.
462
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,520
Well, let's have
a party pop song.
463
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,240
[MUSIC PLAYS ON RECORD PLAYER]
464
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,800
It fucking won.
465
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:49,040
This song, now, it's just got
such a big opening,
a message, actually, I think.
466
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,160
JOHN: That opening,
it reminds me of John Lennon.
467
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,600
Sliced out
of one of John's solo albums.
468
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,640
♪ These are the days
Of the open hand
469
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,480
♪ They will not be the last
470
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,440
♪ Look around now
471
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:09,160
♪ These are the days
Of the beggars
And the choosers♪
472
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,680
When I listen
to George Michael's songs,
473
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,080
I think, not only he's tapped
into his dark side
474
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,040
of whatever's going on
in his life,
475
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:22,760
but he's tapped into the truth
about who he is and what he is,
and what life is.
476
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,200
And he wasn't afraid to share
that with us.
477
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,880
♪ The rich declare
Themselves poor
478
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,320
♪ And most of us
Are not sure
479
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,360
♪ If we have too much
But we'll take our chances
480
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,080
♪ 'Cause God's stopped
Keeping score♪
481
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,040
When I hear that,
it is right up there,
you know what I mean?
482
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,160
And then you get
into the lyrics.
483
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,640
The ones from the side
is "The rich declare
themselves poor."
484
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,640
I like it, 'cause it's
got a bit of a dig.
You know what I mean?
485
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,000
I mean, that's the way
I take it anyway.
486
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,960
It's like, "You bunch
of fucking cunts," you know,
487
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,440
"always fucking playing
the poverty card."
488
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,720
I like that, 'cause it's got
a bit of Lennon vibe.
489
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,000
He likes to dig people out.
490
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,120
There's no one before
The Beatles that has done
this kind of song.
491
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,640
♪ When there is no hope
To speak of
492
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,840
♪ And the wounded
Skies above♪
493
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,680
Not only, really,
it's just his writing,
494
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,480
but it's
the vocal performance,
you know?
495
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,120
And it's always just like...
496
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,120
It just always feels so honest.
497
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,160
You just believe, kind of,
every word that he sings
and even ad-libs.
498
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,800
Even him throwing out a line
is better
than most people's verses.
499
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,920
There comes a point where
you have to write something
500
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,920
which you
haven't written before,
501
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:42,000
and which your interest
in any particular topic
or subject will inspire you,
502
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,160
and that's why, I suppose,
eventually, most lyricists,
503
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,680
still approach wider topics
than sex and love, you know?
504
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,600
♪ These are the days
Of the empty hand
505
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,440
♪ Oh, you hold on
To what you can
506
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:08,320
♪ And charity is a coat
You wear twice a year♪
507
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,400
"Charity's a coat you wear
twice a year."
508
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,520
Like, just like...
There's things that
509
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,720
stick out to you
when you're listening to,
kind of,
510
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,520
pop music and whatever else
at that age.
511
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:24,080
♪ So, maybe we should all be
Praying for time
512
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,360
♪ To-do-do
513
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,120
But even if I'm making whatever,
you know, I mean,
514
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,640
I'd work on his case, you know,
but I am gonna assist you
515
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,160
'cause it's a classic.
It's up there.
516
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,000
I'd say it could have been cut
from the same cloth as Imagine.
517
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,080
It's got, you know,
it's heartfelt,
518
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,360
and the words are amazing
and the tune's great.
519
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,320
That was a bit much, isn't it?
520
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,320
I didn't expect to be
as moved as I am.
521
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,040
♪ Let me tell you a secret
522
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,120
♪ Put it in your heart
And keep it
523
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,160
♪ Something that I want to...
524
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,640
MICHAEL:
It was my time to discover
The Beatles.
525
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,600
And at the time, I was big
into Abbey Road and Revolver,
526
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,160
and you know...
And it's the people that
you're trying to emulate,
527
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,680
sometimes, that can
bring you up.
528
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,200
I made one record to show
how much I loved Lennon,
529
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,200
I made another record
to show how much
I love McCartney.
530
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,320
I didn't even dream
that McCartney would
ever sing it.
531
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,280
And actually, when he sings it,
it sounds like
a Paul McCartney record.
532
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,240
Next week, we're gonna do
some vocals, yeah?
533
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,720
'Cause you're ready for that.Thanks.
534
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,840
♪ Please let me try to
535
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,040
♪ I can heal the pain
536
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:46,840
♪ That you're feeling inside
537
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:52,200
It's most surreal moment
of my career, I think,
to have Paul McCartney singing
538
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,960
something that I wrote
as a tribute
to Paul McCartney.
539
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,120
I don't think I would have
had the nerve to ask him
when I wrote it.
540
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,080
Sounds so fucking cool.
541
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,200
It's cool.
542
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,040
♪ Won't you show me
Your heart now?
543
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,800
♪ I'll be good to you
544
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,640
♪ I can make this thing true
545
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,000
♪ And get
To your heart somehow
546
00:34:17,720 --> 00:34:19,480
Yeah. Go on, love.
547
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:20,520
♪ Yeah...
548
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,200
Okay.
549
00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:25,080
MICHAEL: You know,
the man forgot to introduce me.
550
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,320
I heard the beginning of
"Baby, You Can Drive
My Car" start.
551
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:32,800
There's this bit of film of
me going...
552
00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:40,520
So, that's what I did.
I just ran on
553
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,040
just before I was supposed
to sing the chorus.
554
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,920
♪ But you can do something
In between
555
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,080
♪ Baby, you can drive my car
556
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,120
I haven't done this
in a long time.
557
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,840
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RECORD PLAYER]
558
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,720
See how piano-based
the album is?
559
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,200
♪ No more lying friends
560
00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,120
♪ Wanting tragic ends
561
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,080
♪ Though they do pretend
562
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,280
♪ They won't go when I go
563
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:26,720
I mean, he sounds like Stevie.
564
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:33,560
Love this song.
565
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,720
♪ All those bleeding hearts
566
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,080
I hear so much,
567
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,720
like, exhaustion.
568
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,200
Not exhaustion in him
as an artist,
569
00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:57,920
but exhaustion in him, you know,
as a human in this world
we live in.
570
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,680
I hear a fight.[CHUCKLES]
571
00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:07,080
Sometimes, you know,
like, you'd definitely
hit a pure talent.
572
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:08,840
Pure talent.
573
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:11,680
You hear hope.
574
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:16,960
Brilliant.
575
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,680
"They Won't Go When I Go",
for sure, like, that was...
576
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:27,840
That was probably
my introduction even
to Stevie Wonder.
577
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,120
The version
"They Won't Go When I Go",
578
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,640
it brings back a lot
of the memories
because it's the thought
579
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:41,200
that at the end of the day,
we come alone in this world,
580
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:44,120
and we will,
and we will die alone.
581
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,320
And it's what we do in between
that's going to determine
582
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:52,560
how and what we'll be remembered
as and what we can think
about in spirit.
583
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,560
So, it was great to hear him
sing the song.
584
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,040
♪ Unclean minds
Mislead the pure
585
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,880
♪ The innocent
Will leave for sure
586
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:17,600
♪ For them
There is a resting place
587
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:23,680
♪ People sinning just for fun
They will never see the sun
588
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:28,640
♪ For they can never show
Their faces
589
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:33,040
♪ There ain't no room
For the hopeless sinner
590
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:40,400
♪ Who will take more than he
Will give
591
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:46,520
♪ He will give
He will give
592
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,320
♪ He ain't hardly gonna give
593
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,480
I'm actually crying.
594
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,080
So, you know,
595
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,160
it takes a massive amount
of bravery
596
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,240
for George to do a song
like that.
597
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:09,920
When you go into an area,
598
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,400
that, you know is sort of,
like, sacred ground,
599
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,520
you're going to a place
600
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,720
because your heart tells you
to go there.
601
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:27,080
You have a love of something
and you want to live
in that world.
602
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,080
♪ His father works some days
For 14 hours
603
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,640
♪ And you can bet
He barely makes a dollar
604
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:44,120
♪ His mother goes
To scrub the floors for many
605
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,000
♪ And you'd best believe
She hardly gets a penny
606
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,480
♪ Living just enough
607
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:56,600
♪ Just enough for the city
608
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,120
Reason for me doing
so many Stevie Wonder
609
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,360
'cause I've done
in over various sets.
610
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,360
I've done like four or five
Stevie Wonder covers.
611
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,240
And apart from the fact, like,
I consider him to be
an incredible writer.
612
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,480
His voice, the key
613
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,960
that he was writing for
at that time was perfectly
suited to my voice.
614
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:23,120
♪ His patience's long
But soon he won't have any
615
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:27,880
♪ To find a job
Is like a haystack needle
616
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,520
♪ 'Cause where he lives
They don't use colored people
617
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:38,560
♪ Living just enough
Just enough
For the city, yeah
618
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,320
♪ One more time
619
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,880
WONDER: Well, George reminds
me of me as a little kid,
you know?
620
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,040
My passion for music.
621
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,960
He and I doing
the "Living For The City",
622
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,120
I remember that that
was a lot of fun.
623
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,320
♪ Oh, no
624
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,680
Chemistry is something
that you can't fake.
625
00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:16,040
It's about how you relate
to each other
and how it connects.
626
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,680
MICHAEL: I'm aware
of the need for persona,
627
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,960
and my actual persona,
I'm not really prepared
to give.
628
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:43,240
I'm a real homebody.
629
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:47,080
I'd much rather be
taking my dog for a walk.
630
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,000
Or, you know, be with friends.
631
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,720
I feel like I don't belong
out there.
632
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,800
Being this
professional person,
633
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,720
going around
selling his wares.
634
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:08,200
He had a much harder
journey than me in a way,
because if you get
635
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:13,800
fame and accolades and wealth
beyond your wildest dreams
636
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,880
as a teenager,
it usually goes wrong.
637
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:22,360
But he obviously had
a wiser head on his shoulders
than most.
638
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,080
I think
a lot of young musicians now are
639
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,080
kind of, you know,
sort of, manufactured.
640
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,560
And I think, for him,
he didn't ever want
to be like that.
641
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:36,120
And part of his
reactionary way was to
break away from all of that.
642
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,800
MICHAEL: I was still
struggling with the idea of
having that much attention.
643
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,040
And I think, like,
recoiled from that
644
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:47,080
and I felt that stepping back
would save me
645
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,800
from somehow screwing up
my career.
646
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,960
I see, kind of,
hard sell promotion
as prostituting myself.
647
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,960
I can't help it,
even if it's
a complete fallacy.
648
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,040
That's how I see it.
649
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,880
I am of that generation.
650
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:08,280
He felt he needed to withdraw
from the merry-go-round
that is promoting and albums
651
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,680
and explained
in a very articulate way.
652
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:14,160
That he just felt
he had to withdraw from that
653
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:15,320
for the moment,
for his own sanity,
654
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,040
that we would probably get
more albums out of him
655
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,520
if we just allowed him
to back off.
656
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:25,200
That was quite a bomb shell,
I suppose,
for us to have to deal with.
657
00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:27,400
The fact that he didn't do
any promotion of it,
658
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,040
it's begs, you know,
it's quite astonishing.
659
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,280
[MUSIC PLAYING ON RECORD]
660
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,840
JOHN: What's coming up now
is one of the great intros.
661
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,160
[BEAT-BOXING]
662
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,160
And I was,
not me on piano either,
663
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,480
which is...
I always hated him for that.
664
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,080
♪ I won't let you down
665
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,600
♪ I will not give you up
666
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,040
♪ Gotta have some faith
In the sound
667
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,120
♪ It's the one good thing
That I've got
668
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,360
♪ I won't let you down
669
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,120
♪ So, please
Don't give me up
670
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,920
♪ Because I would really,
Really love to stick around
671
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:12,120
♪ Oh, yeah
672
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,120
"Freedom! '90"
is, kind of, like this
673
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,760
funk groove masterpiece
that just comes in a like,
track two.
674
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,520
You're striving
to make something
675
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,160
every time you go
in the studio,
676
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,000
half as good
as a record like that.
677
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,280
It's the Mona Lisa.
678
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,560
♪ Heaven knows
I was just a young boy
679
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,720
♪ Didn't know what
I wanted to be♪
680
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,360
Big change made, he's not there.
681
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:41,240
He doesn't appear.
682
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,040
Beautiful girls are there.
683
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,280
The top, top, top,
top, top model.
684
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,120
♪ And I guess
It was enough...♪
685
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:48,520
MICHAEL: If you're gonna say
to your record company,
686
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,080
"Look, I'm not gonna be
in this video."
687
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,840
I think that's fairly good
consolation prize. Really.
688
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,200
Five absolutely
gorgeous supermodels
689
00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:58,120
that people
still want to look at today.
690
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,040
♪ Rock and roll TV
Rock and roll TV♪
691
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,760
It changed the whole face
of how videos were done.
692
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,160
The video said everything.
693
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,040
It was genius, and it
was a revolutionary thing.
694
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,160
George had raised the bar
to a whole new level.
695
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,240
ALT:
It felt like a big statement.
696
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,600
It was really well done.
697
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,160
It could have been a disaster.
698
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,840
CRAWFORD: It was
a specific group of women
that George wanted,
699
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,560
that had just been
on the cover of BritishVogue
700
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,280
that was shot
by Peter Lindbergh.
701
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,640
It was, like,
"He wants you five.
702
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,160
"And it has to be
all of you five."
703
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,720
♪ Sometimes the clothes
Do not make the man♪
704
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,400
Now in fashion,
there is no supermodels
like this.
705
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:38,560
This is gone.
706
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,560
It was like the magic moment
of modeling.
707
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,680
I suppose
that's the lasting memory
708
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:50,280
of that whole video shoot
was the cost of the girls
709
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,200
and the fees they were charging
on a daily basis.
710
00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:53,440
That was pretty groundbreaking.
711
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,960
George pitched it to me in L.A.
and his exact words were...
712
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,520
"You're the leader of the gang,
and unless you say yes,
the rest of the girls won't."
713
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,360
His people talked to my people.
714
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,120
Yeah, you know
how it went back then.
715
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:08,840
I was like,
"Well, is Christy doing it?"
716
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,080
♪ Freedom
717
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,640
♪ You've got to give
What you take♪
718
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,920
CHRISTY TURLINGTON:
My scene where I'm sort of
crawling on the ground
719
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:18,480
and you just see my eyes.
720
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:22,960
People think I know, that slow,
so, like, sexy and mysterious
721
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,160
is just really,
I didn't know the words.
722
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,280
LINDA EVANGELISTA:
I prepared
in the trailer with George.
723
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:38,000
He showed me how to hit
the notes
and it's hard to lip sync.
724
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,200
CRAWFORD: David Fincher
was directing it.
725
00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:45,120
And even though the shot
ended up looking
like the steamy bath scene,
726
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,560
there was no water in the tub.
727
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:47,880
I was freezing cold.
728
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,440
I was covered in glycerin
to make my skin shiny.
729
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,240
And I, kind of, thought,
"I hope Fincher knows
what he's doing."
730
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,240
TURLINGTON:
I remember David and George
working closely together.
731
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:02,760
He was, you know, right there,
looking through the lens
at time.
732
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,840
Everything suited each girl.
733
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,680
So, I think it was just strong
and we were all so different.
734
00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:11,800
It's such a fun song.
735
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:15,800
When you listen to the words
and kind of a statement,
it has much more meaning,
736
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,040
and I feel, like,
that whole time
737
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,200
George Michael
was about him saying,
738
00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:23,960
"Enough, like, you guys
tried to prepackage me
and sell me
739
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000
"in a way
that wasn't authentic."
740
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,920
♪ ...true somehow
741
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:31,040
♪ All we have to see
742
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,080
♪ Is that I don't belong
To you
743
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,720
♪And you don't belong
To me, yeah, yeah
744
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,160
♪ Freedom
I won't let you down
745
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,440
♪ Freedom
I will not give you up♪
746
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:49,720
You can see the biker jacket,
which is burning like the fire,
so, it's like symbolic.
747
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,240
RONSON: I got the impression
he's saying, like,
that chapter's closed
748
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:54,920
and I'm done being
public figure pop star.
749
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,600
MICHAEL:
The burning of the jacket,
the exploding guitar,
750
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,040
the exploding jukebox
was me just saying
I'm sick of this.
751
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:02,160
I really can't cope with it.
752
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,560
♪ Freedom
753
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,080
♪ You got to give
What you take
754
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,840
Not only were we not going
to get him appearing
in promotional videos,
755
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,840
but we weren't going to get
his image on the album sleeve.
756
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,160
We won't get to get his name
on the album sleeve.
757
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,960
Would I have chosen
the album sleeve that
wasn't the beach shot
758
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,880
taken from 1940 or whenever
it was? Yeah.
759
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,160
Would I have liked his name
on that?
760
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:24,400
Yeah, of course I would.
761
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,040
A lot of people are just pimping
themselves out 24/7.
762
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:28,240
You know what I mean?
763
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,960
There's a mystique
about George Michael.
764
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,320
♪ But today the way
I play the game
765
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,480
♪ Has got to change,
Oh, yeah
766
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,600
♪ Now I'm gonna get
Myself happy♪
767
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,200
JOHN: Making records, it's fun.
768
00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:44,960
And then you have to talk
about it,
which is not fun.
769
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,680
Yeah, I thought it was bonkers.
770
00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:49,120
But then it all makes sense,
doesn't it?
771
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,080
MICHAEL: When I spoke
to theLos Angeles Times
772
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,200
about stepping back
from promotion,
773
00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:55,600
Frank Sinatra wrote me
an open letter
774
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,360
that just said, you know,
"Get over it.
775
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,760
"Be glad that God gave you
a gift and get out there
and use it."
776
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,120
I don't think he wrote
the letter.
777
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,880
I actually believed
that was the work
of a publicist,
778
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,040
not the work of a genius.
779
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:10,920
What a wonderful letter.
780
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:16,680
Here, probably,
the greatest male singer
of all time is saying,
781
00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:21,320
"Embrace your talent,
enjoy the success.
782
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,000
Don't be threatened by it."
783
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:25,880
MICHAEL: Now, even though
he's the greatest singer
784
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,080
that ever walked the planet,
as far as I'm concerned,
785
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,800
I wasn't taking any advice
from Frank Sinatra.
786
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:35,120
You can't put a gun to any
creative person's head and say,
787
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,320
"Create, write, promote,
market, whatever."
788
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,200
You just have to go with it.
789
00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:40,280
That's what we had to do.
790
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,800
I had spent
six or seven years of my life,
791
00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:01,080
working, working, working,
writing, music, music, music.
792
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,880
And then I had this desire
to escape.
793
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:17,200
The basis for me
going to do the shows in Rio
was I wanted to see Brazil.
794
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:22,160
And I think I made it
conditional that 30
of my friends
795
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:23,560
would be flown out to Brazil.
796
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:26,480
We had our own private island.
797
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:28,760
Absolutely beautiful.
798
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,080
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
799
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,200
I'm actually wearing today...
800
00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:38,720
Some sweat pants. They're very
tight at the bottoms.
801
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,920
This is because I don't want
to drop raw sewage over the city
of Rio.
802
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:49,600
♪ So, you want to be free
803
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:57,480
♪ To live your life
The way you wanna be
804
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:05,320
♪ Will you give if we cry?
805
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:14,360
♪ Will we live
Or will we die?
806
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:21,120
♪ Tainted hearts
Heal with time
807
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:29,200
♪ Shoot bad love so we can
808
00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:32,240
MICHAEL: In the front
of this 160,000 people,
809
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:36,040
there was this guy over
on the right hand side
of the stage
810
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:41,040
that has fixed me
with this look
and he was so cute.
811
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,000
I was so distracted by him.
812
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,400
But I stayed away from that
end of the stage for a while.
813
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,160
Because otherwise, I
thought I was gonna get
really distracted
814
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,920
and forget the words
or something. You know?
815
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:56,000
♪ Is there still a part of you
That wants to live?
816
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,080
♪ Solitary sister
817
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:04,600
♪ Is there still a part of you
That wants to give?
818
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,400
The moment I looked at him,
I got the feeling
819
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,040
that told me I was going
to know him very well
820
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,840
and that he was going to be
a part of my life.
821
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:20,400
♪ Is there still a part of you
That wants to give?♪
822
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:30,240
Anselmo was the first time
I think I really loved
someone selflessly.
823
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:32,520
It was, kind of, immediate.
824
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:35,000
Everybody, with the exception
of my family,
825
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,720
was introduced to him
very, very quickly
826
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,560
because I felt immediately
that everything had changed.
827
00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:46,040
DAVID AUSTIN:
All our friends knew,
of course.
828
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,200
I remember seeing him
and just thinking
829
00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:52,120
how I just was feeling
so happy for him.
830
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,600
The two of them met
and changed George's life.
831
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,640
It's very hard to be proud
of your own sexuality
832
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,040
when it hasn't brought you
any joy.
833
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:53,920
Once it is associated
with joy and love,
834
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:55,640
it's easy to be proud
of who you are.
835
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,120
The first time you
actually believe somebody
loves you,
836
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:05,840
that's a wonderful moment
in your life,
837
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,160
and it was a wonderful
six months.
838
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,080
What a poser.
839
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,680
He was just
very full of energy,
very loving.
840
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,680
I was happier
than I'd ever been
in my entire life.
841
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,480
AUSTIN:
He didn't care who saw him
with Anselmo.
842
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:24,960
He'd found something.
843
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:26,720
He'd found what he was looking
for, you know?
844
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,040
MICHAEL:
By the time I met Anselmo,
845
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,600
I had made the decision
to jump
off the merry-go-round,
846
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:39,120
and I was already
in the early stages of my
confrontation with Sony.
847
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:45,120
Recording an album,
and then saying,
848
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:49,120
"I'm not going to promote it
or I'm not going to market it.
849
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,120
I'm not going to participate,"
850
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,040
that's a serious detriment
to an album.
851
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,160
I think we had
some personality issues
852
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:04,080
between people in the UK and
people in the American company.
853
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,080
Why wasn't this
"Faith Part Two"?
854
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,320
We wanted
all those nice pop songs.
855
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:11,160
What do you mean he's not
going to promote?
856
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,120
We're not going to have
his image on it?
857
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,040
It's like saying,
"I'll do a movie but I...
858
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,040
I won't do one premiere.
859
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,400
I won't do any interviews
for the movie."
860
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,160
You know, you say, "Oh, my God."
861
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,360
TRACEY EMIN:
The moment someone says
to a musician or to an artist,
862
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,280
make more of them
or do more of that,
it kills you.
863
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:33,200
And I think probably for someone
like George, especially,
864
00:54:33,240 --> 00:54:36,440
at certain times in his career,
he must've felt quite trapped.
865
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:42,080
In England, they made an effort,
and Listen Without Prejudice
outsold Faith.
866
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:43,840
And lots of places
it outsold Faith,
867
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,960
because I think it
was actually a better album.
868
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,160
But it wasn't about that.
869
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:51,280
It was about the total and utter
lack of respect
870
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,840
that the minute somebody doesn't
see themselves as a commodity,
871
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,240
that they have the audacity
to think,
872
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,400
"My God, I am actually
creating something
873
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,120
and I must keep myself sane
in order to do that."
874
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,200
The minute somebody does that,
they're over.
875
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:10,440
We tried very, very hard
876
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:14,600
to get the American executives
to come over
877
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,720
and listen to why George felt
the way that he did
878
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,480
from George, 'cause there
was no-one better
to put that forward
879
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,000
than George Michael
telling them,
as he had told us.
880
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,840
The reasons how he really
felt deep down.
881
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:32,200
But they wouldn't come.
882
00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:37,160
MICHAEL:
There were executives that came
to London in 1989
883
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,160
and we played them the record.
884
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:44,400
I explained to them that
Faith had taken me
to the edge of madness,
885
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:48,880
that I wanted to be
a long-term player
in this business.
886
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,440
Now, any logical CEO, I think,
would have thought,
887
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,440
"Okay, he's gonna do this.
888
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:58,720
He'll get it out of his system
and he'll get back on board."
889
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:00,880
George is very stubborn.
890
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:04,120
He's incredibly one of the most
stubborn people I've ever met.
891
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,200
But he was right to be stubborn
on this occasion,
892
00:56:06,240 --> 00:56:08,440
and I'm sure the record company
recoiled in horror.
893
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,440
MICHAEL:
It was very much a clash
of cultures, really.
894
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,360
In America,
there was definitely
a door that shut.
895
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,040
♪ But losing everything
896
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:24,080
♪ Is like the sun going down
On me♪
897
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:26,920
Mr. Elton John!
898
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,600
I managed to have a couple
of really big hit records
in the meantime.
899
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,920
There was the track
with Elton,
900
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,480
and, of course,
theRed Hot + Dance album
came out.
901
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,160
♪ Hey, you're just
Too funky for me
902
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,760
♪ I gotta get inside of you
903
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,080
♪ And I'll show you heaven,
If you let me♪
904
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,680
EVANGELISTA:
It was very difficult
to make that video.
905
00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:57,680
It all fell apart,
not for any
of George's reasons.
906
00:56:57,720 --> 00:57:01,800
It just fell apart,
and he saved it.
907
00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:05,400
Linda, bless her heart,
came back again.
908
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:06,880
We got a bit drunk.
909
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,200
I won't say any more
about that.
910
00:57:08,240 --> 00:57:10,560
It's your stupid, stupid song.
911
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,240
This would look great on me.
912
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,240
I think George definitely
should wear this.
913
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,360
♪ If that's all right, yeah
914
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,080
So, I realized at that
point that if a number
one around the world
915
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,800
was not going to reinstate
any kind of
relationship with Sony,
916
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:25,840
then nothing was.
917
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,160
I don't want to pick a fight.
918
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,040
I just wanted to work
with people who wanted
to work with me
919
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:38,800
and who would have
some respect for the fact
that I was growing up.
920
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:42,760
It was deeply,
deeply troubling times,
921
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:47,280
because you could see this,
it's like trying to watch
a train wreck in slow motion.
922
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,200
There is nothing you could
do to stop it.
923
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,960
MICHAEL:
Anselmo and I were in LA when
924
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,160
he was advised
to go for his test.
925
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,080
He hadn't been tested
for a while
926
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,320
and he was absolutely
healthy looking,
927
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,960
more than healthy looking,
when I first met him.
928
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,160
Within a month or two
of meeting him,
929
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,720
he had a flu
that he couldn't get rid of,
930
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:25,320
and some red marks
that came up on his chest.
931
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,400
And I remember the kind
of terror of...
932
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,240
me understanding
that this was possibly
933
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,480
the beginning of, you know,
an illness.
934
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,440
I remember him
leaving the house and...
935
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:47,240
To this day, I remember
looking at the sky and saying,
936
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:51,040
"Don't you dare do this to me."
937
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:55,360
I mean, I was 20...
27 going on 28.
938
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,040
But at that point in time,
you think,
939
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,640
like, that's a lifetime
to have waited to be loved.
940
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:04,040
Anselmo had the test
941
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:06,960
in Brazil.
942
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:15,160
I went home
to my family for Christmas
and sat at the Christmas table
943
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:20,520
not knowing whether my partner,
whom the people
944
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,640
sitting around the table
did not know about,
945
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:27,200
not knowing whether
this man I was in love with
was terminally ill.
946
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:31,600
And, therefore, not knowing
whether I potentially
was terminally ill.
947
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,280
That Christmas was probably
the darkest,
948
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:39,600
darkest, most frightening
time in my life.
949
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:47,800
I remember my publicist
calling me to tell me
that Freddie Mercury had died.
950
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,480
And he died of HIV obviously.
951
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:57,800
And I remember I was...
I was crying and
952
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:01,880
I actually just thought...
I mean, bless him,
I was really sad
953
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,520
that Freddie had passed away.
954
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:08,760
But, of course, I was crying
about something else entirely,
955
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:13,720
which was the fact that both
my partner and possibly myself
were HIV.
956
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:21,040
GERVAIS:
It was an incredibly difficult
period for George,
957
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:25,320
because it was something that
he had to hold close
to his chest.
958
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,240
MICHAEL: I was just
absolutely devastated
959
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,080
to find out that he had
a terminal illness.
960
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:34,160
I was just devastated.
961
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,440
Even by the time
Freddie's tribute
had been put together,
962
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:43,720
I was still sworn to secrecy.
963
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,080
I just wanted perfection.
964
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:51,800
Which is what I always wanted.
965
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,880
So, I went for five days
to rehearse.
966
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,480
Everyone else went
for an afternoon.
967
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:04,840
I went for five days.
968
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,280
Because it had to be perfect.
969
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:08,320
[SINGING]
970
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:24,400
Because I had to take
all those years
of standing in a bedroom,
971
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:26,200
with I don't think
I had a hairbrush,
972
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:29,080
but I would stand
and sing to the mirror.
973
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:34,280
And that child
was going to take
all that knowledge
974
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:40,000
all that subconscious
easing in
of music from that group
975
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,600
and sing one
of Freddie Mercury's songs
to the world
976
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:47,320
after his passing
in front of my lover.
977
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:58,480
In my subconscious view,
this was, very probably
978
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,520
the most important performance
of my life.
979
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:06,520
♪ Somebody to love
980
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:10,640
♪ He works hard
981
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,280
♪ Everyday♪ Everyday
982
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:15,520
♪ I try and I try and I try
983
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,840
♪ But everybody wants
To put me down
984
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,440
♪ They say I'm goin' crazy
985
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,080
♪ They say I got a lot
Of water in my brain
986
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,120
♪ I got no common sense
987
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:30,160
♪ He's got
Nobody left to believe
988
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:34,600
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
989
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:41,480
I was so overwhelmed
by the sadness of singing
the songs of this man
990
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:46,240
that I absolutely worshipped
as a child,
who had passed away
991
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:52,080
in the same manner
that my first live-in partner
was going to experience.
992
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,040
It was just overwhelming
to me.
993
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:57,200
♪ Ooh, somebody
994
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:03,200
♪ Anybody, find me somebody
To love
995
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:08,920
♪ Can anybody find me
996
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:10,120
♪ Someone to love?
997
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:13,840
♪ I got no feel,
I got no rhythm
998
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,120
♪ I just keep losing
My beat
999
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:17,320
♪ You just keeping losing
The beat
1000
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:19,120
♪ I'm okay, I'm all right
1001
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:20,880
♪ He's all right,
He's all right
1002
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,840
♪ I ain't gonna face
No defeat
1003
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:27,160
♪ I just gotta get out
Of this prison cell
1004
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:34,040
♪ Someday I'm gonna be free,
Lord
1005
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,880
I'm very proud
of that performance,
but Anselmo was in the crowd
1006
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:44,080
and I went out there knowing
I had to honor Freddie Mercury
and I had to pray for Anselmo.
1007
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:45,680
Wanna hear every single person.
1008
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:48,920
See every single hand.
1009
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:52,640
And this
was the loudest prayer
of my life.
1010
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:54,520
♪ Somebody to love
1011
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,080
♪ Somebody to love
1012
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,640
♪ Somebody to love
1013
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:04,600
♪ Somebody to love
1014
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,840
♪ Somebody to love
1015
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:10,720
♪ Somebody to love
1016
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:13,720
♪ Somebody to love
1017
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:17,760
♪ Somebody to love
1018
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,640
I mean, it was the most
incredible crowd
I've ever seen.
1019
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,040
Everybody knew
every single word.
1020
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:26,920
And there's a real, kind of,
spine-tingling moment for me
1021
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,200
where I handed over the mike
to the audience, and they,
1022
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:33,320
not only sang the note,
but they did the kind of
descending scale
1023
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:34,640
that Freddy had done.
1024
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:40,120
♪ Somebody to
1025
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:41,120
Come on!
1026
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:44,160
♪ Love
1027
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:48,320
Yeah!
1028
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:55,560
♪ Find me somebody
To-ooh love
1029
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:57,880
♪ Ooh
1030
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:02,200
♪ Find me somebody
To-ooh love
1031
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:08,280
♪ Somebody, somebody, somebody
To love
1032
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:13,320
♪ Find me, find me
Find me, find me, find me
1033
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:18,760
♪ Ooh, somebody to love
1034
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,640
♪ Find me somebody to love
1035
01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:28,080
♪ Find me somebody to love
1036
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:31,680
♪ Anybody, anywhere, anybody
1037
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,040
♪ Find me somebody to love,
Love
1038
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:42,080
♪ Ooh
1039
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:57,320
It's not an accident
that the performance
1040
01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:03,080
probably most well-known
in my career was sung
1041
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,720
to my lover who was dying,
1042
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:16,800
who was the reason I had
the strength to go
to battle with Sony.
1043
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:25,000
I saw it as,
if I'm going to do
nothing but love this man
1044
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:30,640
and care for this man,
if I could do nothing
beneficial as a musician
1045
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,840
because I cannot even think
of a note,
1046
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:37,760
maybe I have a chance to do
something truly special
1047
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:42,160
and change the standard
record contract forever.
1048
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:48,800
I didn't think that it would end
up in court, at the time
1049
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:52,160
because I really thought
that sanity will prevail.
1050
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:53,240
Well, I was wrong.
1051
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:55,000
It didn't.
1052
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:58,080
Our relationship broke down
because they said,
1053
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:01,200
"No, you are this kind
of artist.
1054
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:04,080
This is the kind of artist
that we sell.
1055
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:06,440
This is the kind of artist
we know how to sell.
1056
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:09,000
And if you don't want to sell
yourself that way,
1057
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:10,680
and you want to go off
on this journey
1058
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:14,560
and find this other audience,
we're not gonna support you."
1059
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:18,120
The relationship
had completely disintegrated.
1060
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,120
George flew out to New York
with his publisher
1061
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:23,440
and basically,
it was at that meeting
1062
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:25,960
that George told
the head people at Sony
1063
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:29,480
that he'd wanted out
of the deal,
wanted a divorce.
1064
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:34,280
What he was basically saying is,
"How can I stay
with a company...
1065
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:40,360
who won't support me in any
way when I feel so strongly?"
1066
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:46,640
We issued a writ
three days later.
1067
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:56,680
MICHAEL: I will never know
if Sony and I
would have ended up in court
1068
01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:59,480
had Anselmo not become ill.
1069
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:05,040
I was absolutely terrified
of losing him
1070
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:08,080
and the prospect of watching
him die of AIDS.
1071
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,040
I was in LA
and the phone rang,
1072
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:20,040
and I was told that Anselmo's
best friend in Brazil
was on the phone.
1073
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:21,880
And...
1074
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:25,880
...then it all goes blurry
for a long time.
1075
01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:58,600
He still, 23 years later,
brings a tear to my eye.
1076
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,120
He was... He was my savior.
1077
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:07,120
It's still very hard
for me to explain how
finding a companion
1078
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:11,480
at that stage in my life
changed me.
1079
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:16,840
And such
a beautiful companion,
such an amazing person.
1080
01:09:18,480 --> 01:09:21,760
I think, to some degree,
the Sony court case
1081
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:24,120
was a perfectly good place
to put my anger.
1082
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:28,240
I used to go and run
on the treadmill everyday
and play squash
1083
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:31,120
and do everything I could
to get rid of all of this
anger and fear.
1084
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,560
But the best place for it
was court number one, really.
1085
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:37,640
PRESSPERSON:
George, come on, George.
1086
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:43,080
MICHAEL: There was the part
of my personality
that could say,
1087
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:44,680
"Okay, fuck this!
1088
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:47,040
This can't all be bad.
1089
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:50,440
I've got to do something good
with this time in my life
1090
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:56,160
and change the path
of artists' lives."
1091
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:59,480
One of Britain's most successful
pop singers, George Michael,
1092
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:01,680
is today asking a High Court
judge to declare
1093
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:04,320
his recording contract null
and void.
1094
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:07,400
He says the contract
with Sony Music
is too restrictive
1095
01:10:07,440 --> 01:10:09,920
and that the company takes
too much of the profits.
1096
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,800
MICHAEL: The deal that I
was working from
1097
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:14,760
was based
upon the original deal
1098
01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:18,000
which I had signed
with Andrew,
under duress.
1099
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:24,280
And it recorded a demo
of "Careless Whisper",
"Club Tropicana", "Wham Rap".
1100
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,280
The head of the record company
of Innervison
1101
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:31,920
turns up with these contracts
and we went to this
greasy spoon cafe.
1102
01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:35,040
And he said "Look,
if you don't sign this now,
the deal is going away.
1103
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,760
"You won't have finished demos
to take away,
you won't own them."
1104
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:43,560
And we were on our own,
we had nobody with us,
and we signed them.
1105
01:10:45,480 --> 01:10:48,160
When you start a career
with a ridiculous contract
1106
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:52,240
where someone is paying you
nothing on 12" records,
1107
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,080
one and a half per cent
on the records
that you do sell,
1108
01:10:56,240 --> 01:10:57,400
when you start
from that point,
1109
01:10:57,440 --> 01:11:02,560
you know from that day on
not to trust the industry.
1110
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:08,520
This was a worldwide,
major artist saying
to a record company
1111
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:13,640
that the basic contract
which record companies used
was invalid.
1112
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:16,880
RUSSELL:
If you really fall out
with the people
1113
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,760
who control
your professional life,
1114
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:23,480
you have a right to walk away.
1115
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:26,040
I think that is the right
of every individual.
1116
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:32,080
And the music industry
takes away that right
from every artist it signs.
1117
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:33,560
George is very, very brave.
1118
01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:35,200
He's not afraid of anybody.
1119
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:37,280
And he thought
he was being wronged
1120
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:38,960
and he went out
and fought his own corner.
1121
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:44,440
What we couldn't do was stand up
and say, "Yeah, you're right.
1122
01:11:44,480 --> 01:11:49,760
"These contracts are slavery
and they shouldn't be allowed,
Your Honor."
1123
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:51,200
We weren't going to do that!
1124
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:54,920
You would have artist
after artist queuing up
1125
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:56,440
to take their record company
into court.
1126
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:01,800
MICHAEL:
I can't think of one artist
that supported me.
1127
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:04,200
Not one.
1128
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:09,080
I know of a lot of artists
who sat back
and waited for the result.
1129
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:11,960
But that's a different thing.
1130
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:18,280
ANDY STEPHENS:
Artists like George Michael
come along, if you're lucky,
1131
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:20,000
once-in-a-lifetime.
1132
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:24,760
My feelings as the court case
went on were
that we'd lost him.
1133
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,160
How could you ever patch
that up?
1134
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:31,160
I'd never let on to George
of the problems
1135
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,160
until after
he'd been in the witness box.
1136
01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:35,600
And I said,
"It's not going well."
1137
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:40,040
And, you know, you shouldn't
raise your hopes at this stage.
1138
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:56,200
The pop star George Michael
loses his High Court battle
1139
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:58,720
to break away from
his record company, Sony.
1140
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:01,720
In dismissing the claim,
the judge, Mr. Justice Parker,
1141
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:05,320
ruled that the contract
was both reasonable and fair.
1142
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:07,880
The 30-year-old singer
had argued
that the agreement
1143
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,040
was stifling
his artistic development
1144
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:13,640
and he threatened never
to record for Sony again
if he lost.
1145
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:16,480
George Michael says
he'll appeal
against the judgment,
1146
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,560
which he said condemned him
to "professional slavery."
1147
01:13:26,480 --> 01:13:31,040
Having received this judgment,
I would like to reiterate
the reasons why
1148
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:32,960
I embarked
upon these proceedings.
1149
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,240
I have no right to resign.
1150
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:42,480
In fact, there is no such thing
as resignation for an artist
in the music industry.
1151
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:47,080
Effectively, you sign a piece
of paper
at the beginning of your career
1152
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:49,920
and you are expected
to live with that decision,
1153
01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:54,400
good or bad, for the rest
of your professional life.
1154
01:13:54,440 --> 01:13:57,400
I shall obviously take full
advice from my lawyers.
1155
01:13:57,440 --> 01:14:01,000
But the initial view is that
we have very strong grounds
for appeal
1156
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:04,640
and we hope to have the appeal
heard as quickly as possible.
1157
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:07,040
Thank you very much for your
time and for all the support
1158
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,800
that I've received since this
action began. Thank you.
1159
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:14,040
JOURNALIST: George,
will you sing for Sony again?
1160
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:26,280
After the court case
was finished and I'd lost
1161
01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:29,120
and not just lost,
I lost completely.
1162
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:30,840
I mean, I lost on everything.
1163
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:32,640
Every count.
1164
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:35,320
They then called up and,
you know, kind of said,
"Well, isn't...
1165
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:36,880
Can't we patch things up?"
kind of thing.
1166
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:39,080
But I knew in reality
that was like a formality.
1167
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:40,160
They had to do that.
1168
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:45,200
But ultimately, the whole thing
was a complete waste of time.
1169
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:48,080
And I regret it to this day.
1170
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:54,440
Looking back 25 years on,
my first thought is that
I just think it's sad.
1171
01:14:54,480 --> 01:14:57,960
When you win a court case,
you're normally out there
high-fiving
1172
01:14:58,000 --> 01:14:59,800
and putting the drinks in.
1173
01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:03,800
But I don't think anyone felt,
not on my team anyway,
a sense of euphoria.
1174
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:05,880
Certainly, there
were no winners.
1175
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,920
I mean, we won the court case,
but we didn't win anything.
1176
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:13,360
You've actually lost
because you've lost the support
of that artist.
1177
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:18,400
TONY: George said in passing,
"David Frost wants to do
an interview with me."
1178
01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:20,160
And I said,
"You've got to do it.
1179
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,680
They know you're a man
of principle.
1180
01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:26,720
Now, you've got to be a man
of principle
who's totally obsessed."
1181
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:30,040
Well...
1182
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:33,600
What happens now
is that we go to appeal.
1183
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:36,040
I can't see
any other way around it.
1184
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:37,880
I mean, of course,
there is the ultimate option
1185
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:42,040
that an appeal at the House
of Lords,
which would take forever.
1186
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:43,600
It was all bluff.
1187
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:48,520
I mean, they intended to take it
to the Court of Appeal
in the UK.
1188
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:52,360
Never to the House of Lords,
never to the European Court
of Justice.
1189
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:55,840
They can only lose
by going to appeal.
1190
01:15:55,880 --> 01:15:57,440
Everybody was watching,
1191
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:01,000
including David Geffen.
1192
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,320
No-one was going to let a talent
like that flounder out there
for very long.
1193
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:10,000
So, David Geffen
contacts Sony
and said to them,
1194
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:11,720
"Listen, guys,
1195
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:17,600
he's never, ever going to make
another piece of music
for you ever."
1196
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:19,080
"You might as well let him go."
1197
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:25,880
I flew to New York,
had a very quick
meeting there,
1198
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:29,320
where basically, you know,
we agreed that the contract
would be sold.
1199
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:31,960
I was like in seventh heaven.
1200
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:35,240
TONY: Sony said,
"We want
this transfer fee" and
1201
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:37,760
it would've bought you
a top class footballer.
1202
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:40,280
In fact, it most probably
even bought you Lionel Messi
in those days.
1203
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:44,920
RUSSELL: In the end, he did
whatever he did
with David Geffen and Virgin
1204
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:48,400
and basically
he bought himself
out of the contract.
1205
01:16:48,440 --> 01:16:51,280
Was it a good decision
in hindsight of history?
1206
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:52,600
I'm not sure.
1207
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:58,000
George unquestionably
lost the battle but won the war.
1208
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,040
Because he got the freedom
that he craved for.
1209
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:01,600
'Cause he felt he had
to get away.
1210
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:07,800
Peace to George Michael.
1211
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:11,760
Peace.
1212
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:22,040
MICHAEL:
I think the whole experience
of losing Anselmo,
1213
01:17:22,080 --> 01:17:24,960
the period of grief,
roughly two years,
1214
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:26,720
that I didn't write a note
of music...
1215
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:30,280
And then,
the absolute knowledge
1216
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:32,800
that the next album
I was going to write
1217
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:35,560
would be about grief
and recovery.
1218
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:41,360
Older is my greatest moment.
1219
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:44,800
♪ Kindness
1220
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:50,080
♪ In your eyes I guess
1221
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:52,680
♪ You heard me cry
1222
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:55,440
♪ You smiled at me
1223
01:17:55,480 --> 01:17:59,960
♪ Like Jesus to a child
1224
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:04,600
I sat at a keyboard,
1225
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:11,320
played a very simple
string part,
1226
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:18,160
added a very,
very gentle guitar part.
1227
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:21,360
And my way of making music
is very strange.
1228
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:23,240
It's very strange.
1229
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:27,000
Generally, I put
my backing tracks together
very simply on keyboards.
1230
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:33,480
In this case, I think,
I've added a little guitar.
1231
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:39,000
But the moment I think
there is something coming,
1232
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:41,280
there is something
important coming,
1233
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:46,360
I shove everybody
out of the room, I go in.
1234
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:53,120
And then I just sing
on repeat, repeat,
repeat, repeat.
1235
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:58,000
I sing, and I sing,
and I sing.
1236
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:02,120
This whole total stream
of consciousness rubbish
1237
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:07,200
that people would laugh
their heads off if they heard
what I was singing.
1238
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:14,240
And then, I sang
"Like Jesus to a Child".
1239
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:18,240
Simple as that.
1240
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:25,000
And I thought, "Oh, my God.
1241
01:19:25,480 --> 01:19:26,520
That's him.
1242
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:28,520
That's him and me.
1243
01:19:29,560 --> 01:19:31,320
Like Jesus to a child."
1244
01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:39,960
Then I was so excited
that I'd finally
been able to put my feelings
1245
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:41,920
about Anselmo into words.
1246
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,360
And within a week
of writing it,
1247
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:48,880
I was singing it in front
of the Brandenburg Gate,
1248
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:51,720
playing my first kind
of public tribute
to him there.
1249
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:56,440
♪ Well, I've been loved
1250
01:19:56,480 --> 01:20:02,000
♪ So, I know just
What love is
1251
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:07,160
♪ And the lover
That I kissed
1252
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:13,080
♪ Was always by my side...
1253
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:19,160
I guess, "Jesus to a Child"
is just the story of me being
rescued from myself
1254
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:24,040
by someone
with an incredibly good heart.
1255
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:29,640
♪ Oh the lover I still miss
1256
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:34,120
♪ Was Jesus to a child
1257
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:38,720
I just celebrate people
who are able to use their joys
1258
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:43,480
and their pains
to really help people to heal.
1259
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:50,040
MICHAEL:
I think I wrote the best,
most healing piece of music.
1260
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:52,120
It was all systems go
from that point on.
1261
01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:55,400
♪ In the absence of security
1262
01:20:57,160 --> 01:20:59,920
♪ I made my way
Into the night♪
1263
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:06,560
♪ Stupid Cupid keeps on
Calling me
1264
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:08,920
♪ And I see lovin'
In his eyes
1265
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:11,120
♪ I miss my baby
1266
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:18,280
For anyone who had a clue
about any kind of symbolism,
I was coming out.
1267
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,240
And you know,
"Fast Love" makes me laugh,
1268
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:23,720
because it's all
about cruising
and covering my pain.
1269
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:27,960
Blunting out that pain
with fast love.
1270
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:29,120
Simple as that.
1271
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:33,840
♪ I do believe that we are
Practicing the same religion♪
1272
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:39,000
There's not one track
on that album
that is not about Anselmo,
1273
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:42,280
about the risk of AIDS,
which was
"Spinning The Wheel".
1274
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:45,520
♪ Watch you spinning
1275
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:47,600
♪ That wheel for me
1276
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:49,320
♪ You've got a thing
About danger
1277
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:53,480
♪ Ain't you getting
What you want from me?
1278
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:56,160
♪ You've got a thing
About strangers
1279
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,160
♪ Baby that's what
We used to be
1280
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:00,080
♪ That's what we used to be
1281
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:03,200
♪ You've got a thing
About danger baby
1282
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,960
♪ I guess the hungry
Just can't see
1283
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:10,320
♪ One of these days
1284
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:12,840
♪ You're going
To bring some home to me
1285
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:17,600
I believe I
was destined to feel
that particular pain
1286
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:22,760
so that I could do
the ultimate with my music
in terms of healing.
1287
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:26,000
And the number of people
who come up to me and say,
1288
01:22:26,040 --> 01:22:29,640
"Oh, you don't know how much
you helped me withOlder
1289
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:32,200
when I lost this person
or when I lost that person."
1290
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:34,080
♪ Give me time
1291
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:36,200
♪ And I'll lead you
1292
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:38,200
♪ Back to...
1293
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:44,080
I remember theUnplugged
really, really vividly.
1294
01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:49,320
Apart from the fact
that I felt
something magical happened,
1295
01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:52,000
I knew that everything
that came out of my mouth,
1296
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:53,880
was going to be in tune,
I don't know why.
1297
01:22:57,160 --> 01:23:00,000
I suppose I wasn't used
to playing in small venues
1298
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:02,640
and just the fact that I
could hear everything I
was doing
1299
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:05,040
because there wasn't
a lot of amplification,
1300
01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:08,560
I just lost myself
in singing that night.
1301
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:14,200
♪ She takes the back road
And the lane
1302
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:18,480
♪ Past the school that has
Not changed
1303
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:20,960
♪ In all this time
1304
01:23:24,480 --> 01:23:28,200
♪ She thinks of when the boy
Was young
1305
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:33,120
♪ All the battles
She had won
1306
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:37,160
♪ Just to give him life
1307
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:40,120
♪ That man
1308
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:44,360
♪ She loved that man
1309
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:49,000
♪ For all his life
1310
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:56,920
♪ And now we meet
To take him flowers
1311
01:23:56,960 --> 01:24:01,040
♪ And only God knows why
1312
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:04,680
I came out to my parents
the day after Anselmo died.
1313
01:24:06,200 --> 01:24:08,120
My mother,
bless her, wasn't...
1314
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:09,640
Wasn't...
1315
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:11,800
She wasn't slightly fazed
by the gay thing,
1316
01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:14,560
which she probably
worked out years before.
1317
01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:18,840
She was just devastated
that I had gone through
1318
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:23,200
a year and a half of terror,
you know, without her knowing.
1319
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:25,600
Therefore, she couldn't
help me in any way.
1320
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:29,120
And I think that was really
really painful for her.
1321
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:33,160
The issue of me being gay
was nothing.
1322
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:38,880
I wrote a letter that flowed
almost as though my hand
was moving itself, you know.
1323
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:41,680
This letter telling them
1324
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:47,120
how much I loved him
and how much joy
there was for me
1325
01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:49,480
in my sexuality
and not to worry for me
1326
01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:52,480
and not to feel like
I had suffered anything.
1327
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:56,160
Trying to, really trying to
1328
01:24:56,200 --> 01:25:00,880
save my mum from any pain
that she thought
she could have saved me from.
1329
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:07,000
♪ "Take care, my love,"
He said
1330
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:15,120
♪ You have been loved
1331
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:23,200
And I'm so glad,
I'm so glad my mom was there.
1332
01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:26,240
And I'm so glad, you know,
for the first time ever,
1333
01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:28,320
and definitely the only time
ever on film,
1334
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:30,520
I actually said hello
to my mom in the audience.
1335
01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:34,160
Hello, Mum.
1336
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:38,440
And it was the last time
she ever saw me play.
1337
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:47,120
I had about six month's period
where things were okay,
and I was recording Older.
1338
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:49,800
Then I found out
that my mother had cancer.
1339
01:25:56,680 --> 01:26:02,920
I was so spiritually crushed
after Mum died,
so crushed, and so...
1340
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:06,080
Felt so bloody picked on
by the gods, you know.
1341
01:26:08,920 --> 01:26:11,920
For all of my adult life,
she was phenomenal,
absolutely phenomenal.
1342
01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:14,640
A terrible, horrible loss.
1343
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:21,520
From the day that I found out
about my partner
to the day that I could say,
1344
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:27,160
I actually felt that I was well
on the mend from my mother,
it was just constant fear.
1345
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:32,080
It was either fear of death
or fear of the next bereavement,
you know?
1346
01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:34,720
And I just took it
very, very badly.
1347
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:36,840
Very badly indeed.
1348
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:39,920
I've never felt
that kind of depression.
1349
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,360
I felt it was something
different to grief.
1350
01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:46,040
It was on top of grief
because I was grieving
for my mother still.
1351
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:49,040
But it was something else.
It was...
1352
01:26:49,080 --> 01:26:54,680
I felt like a sportsman
that had had a terrible injury
1353
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:58,080
in the middle
of an incredibly
successful career.
1354
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:02,560
I'm so, so much more aware
1355
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:07,800
of how intrinsic to my entire
being it is, to be able
to create music.
1356
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:10,200
Having lost it for three
or four years of my life,
1357
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:13,600
I really did, I lost the music
at the center of me,
1358
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:15,400
which was like losing God
for me.
1359
01:27:15,440 --> 01:27:18,640
It really was.
It was the darkest,
darkest time.
1360
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:24,800
But even when
I've lost control,
1361
01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:29,120
even when I've really hit
rock bottom,
1362
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:34,000
I believe that the red line
is still there.
1363
01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:40,440
I'd just like to say
very genuinely,
I am really touched by this.
1364
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:46,080
The first half of the '90s
was pretty crap for me,
1365
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:50,680
and 1996 has, kind of,
made it all worthwhile.
1366
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:51,720
Thank you very much.
1367
01:27:55,960 --> 01:28:00,680
MAN: I think people genuinely
adore George,
not just the music,
1368
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:02,960
but they feel for him
and his struggles.
1369
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:09,080
I hadn't actually planned
on being internationally
humiliated that day.
1370
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:11,120
NEWSREADER:
Popstar George Michael
1371
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:13,440
is arrested in a Los Angeles
public toilet.
1372
01:28:13,480 --> 01:28:16,400
Ladies and gentleman,
welcome, please, George Michael.
1373
01:28:16,440 --> 01:28:18,600
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
1374
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:25,640
MICHAEL:
I have to thank...
this is a great honor for me,
1375
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:27,800
because my mum would
allow me to stay up
1376
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,040
only to watch
theParkinson show.
1377
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:32,160
So, I'm very, very privileged
to be here.
1378
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:36,200
And she probably wouldn't have
been quite as thrilled
1379
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:38,360
that I had to take my willy out
to get on here.
1380
01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:40,520
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
1381
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:43,160
"What were you thinking?
1382
01:28:43,200 --> 01:28:44,240
That's what everyone
wants to know.
1383
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:46,320
What were you thinking?"
1384
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:51,480
I responded to something,
and I responded to, you know,
very handsome American cop.
1385
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:53,640
You know, they don't send
Colombo in there to just...
1386
01:28:55,760 --> 01:29:00,720
Everyone had this go at him
because he didn't come out
when he was 18.
1387
01:29:00,760 --> 01:29:03,000
Loads of people didn't come out
when they were 18.
1388
01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:06,600
Especially when they've got
signed at some fucking giant
record label.
1389
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:09,520
But boy, did he come out later
in a big way.
1390
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:12,680
♪ And yes, I've been bad
1391
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:16,200
♪ Doctor won't you do with me
What you can?
1392
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:18,440
When he came out,
I wanted to go,
"George, you don't need.
1393
01:29:18,480 --> 01:29:19,960
We know!
1394
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:22,440
Don't make a song
and dance about it."
1395
01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:25,280
And he did. He did a song
about it, didn't he?
1396
01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:27,160
Did a whole song and dance
about it.
1397
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:31,720
♪ I never really
Said it before
1398
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,520
There is one recurring theme
to my actions,
1399
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:37,720
as a celebrity
or as a person, as an adult.
1400
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:41,840
And that is if I am
pressured into anything,
I react against it.
1401
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:44,120
My reaction to this
was I'm not gonna be like
1402
01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:46,040
another one of these people
that's peeking out
1403
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:48,560
from behind the net curtains
a month later, you know?
1404
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:50,680
♪ I think I'm done
With the sofa
1405
01:29:52,120 --> 01:29:54,440
♪ I think I'm done
With the hall
1406
01:29:56,240 --> 01:30:00,520
♪ I think I'm done
With the kitchen table, baby
1407
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:04,280
♪ Let's go outside
1408
01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:06,880
One of my closest friend said
that his mother said
1409
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:09,600
"He's not the first,
he won't be the last
1410
01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:12,040
"he's just the biggest."
And I thought I like that.
1411
01:30:15,360 --> 01:30:18,520
GERVAIS: He disarms the press,
'cause they think
they've got him.
1412
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:20,920
They say, "Oh, you did this."
And he goes, "Yep."
1413
01:30:21,280 --> 01:30:22,480
"And?"
1414
01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:26,560
♪ And yes, I've been bad
1415
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:30,080
♪ Doctor, won't you do with me
What you can
1416
01:30:30,120 --> 01:30:32,080
And then when they went,
"Ah, you're gay!"
1417
01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:34,400
He went, "Yeah.
Sorry, I didn't call you."
1418
01:30:34,440 --> 01:30:37,160
You know what I mean?
He didn't call everyone.
1419
01:30:38,880 --> 01:30:40,120
MICHAEL:
I think the truth is,
1420
01:30:40,160 --> 01:30:42,960
I'm just not afraid
of being laughed at.
1421
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:45,920
GERVAIS: InExtras, George
played George Michael
1422
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,160
on Hampstead Heath looking
for fun.
1423
01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:50,120
MICHAEL: Ricky came to me
with it written,
1424
01:30:50,160 --> 01:30:52,680
and I think I
made a few changes.
1425
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:55,200
I only got 20 minutes, actually,
I'm on my lunch break.
1426
01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:56,640
He just nailed it.
1427
01:30:56,680 --> 01:31:02,040
He gave us
that sort of decadent,
almost bored rock star...
1428
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:03,160
Lunch break?
1429
01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:05,120
Yeah, I'm doing
community service.
1430
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:07,080
Are you still doing that?
1431
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:08,600
Not that one.
No, I'm doing another one now.
1432
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:09,920
I'm picking up litter now.
1433
01:31:09,960 --> 01:31:11,040
All right.
1434
01:31:11,080 --> 01:31:12,320
What did you do wrong this time?
1435
01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:13,440
Fly tipping.
1436
01:31:13,480 --> 01:31:14,640
Believe it or not.
1437
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:16,120
All right.
1438
01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:19,120
Yeah, I was helping Annie Lennox
out with an old fridge freezer
1439
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:21,080
and she said,
"Shall I call the council?"
1440
01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:22,360
I said, "No, don't bother
with that.
1441
01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:24,240
"There's a skip
at the end of my street."
1442
01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:29,680
So, 2:30 in the morning,
we're tipping it in there
and fucking police show up.
1443
01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:30,760
How did they get called in?
1444
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:33,200
Well, it
was Stewart Copeland's Skip,
1445
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:37,040
and he called Sting and Sting
called the fucking council
1446
01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:39,320
because he's
a fucking do-gooder.
1447
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:41,240
Now me and Annie
are picking up litter.
1448
01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:43,600
It was great.
It was really, really great.
1449
01:31:43,640 --> 01:31:48,120
I was really, really knocked out
on how good it actually was.
1450
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:50,080
And such a sport.
1451
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:52,640
I think people have
a wrong impression of him
1452
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:54,880
because they only see
what they get in the press
1453
01:31:54,920 --> 01:31:56,720
or in the newspapers
or whatever.
1454
01:31:56,760 --> 01:31:58,720
But he's hilariously funny.
1455
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:01,360
Why can't I come
to Comic Relief?
1456
01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:04,200
Because you're a joke, George.
It's embarrassing.
1457
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:06,440
I can't walk into Comic Relief
with you.
1458
01:32:06,480 --> 01:32:08,960
Comic Relief's about helping
people like you.
1459
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:12,920
And I did laugh
at the headlines.
1460
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:16,240
I did laugh at some
of the things that
were said, you know.
1461
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:20,200
When it came to the car thing,
I did something wrong.
1462
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:24,200
When it came
to the Hampstead Heath thing,
fuck up...
1463
01:32:24,240 --> 01:32:25,440
[MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO]
1464
01:32:25,480 --> 01:32:26,480
Yeah?
1465
01:32:27,480 --> 01:32:29,080
Love this one, don't you?
1466
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:31,040
♪ Call me good
1467
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:33,680
♪ Call me bad
1468
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:36,920
♪ Call me
If you want to, baby
1469
01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:40,200
♪ George and I know
That you say
1470
01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:41,120
Come on.
1471
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:43,160
♪ And I know
I made you happy
1472
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:45,160
♪ With wild day that
You'd ever had
1473
01:32:45,200 --> 01:32:46,600
♪ Baby
1474
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:49,920
♪ I'm your baby
1475
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:51,120
I love it.
1476
01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:54,720
MICHAEL:
James' little excursion
with me in the Volvo
1477
01:32:54,760 --> 01:32:58,800
has turned to something
world conquering, you know.
1478
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:02,920
CORDEN: Without that sketch,
I don't think I'd have
a successful show in America
1479
01:33:02,960 --> 01:33:06,040
because there was something
so joyful about it.
1480
01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:09,440
There was something so brilliant
about being with him
that made us go,
1481
01:33:09,480 --> 01:33:11,800
"I wonder if we could do that
with other artists."
1482
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:16,680
MICHAEL: Again, he came to me
with the basis of it,
and I made a few changes,
1483
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:19,120
and I'm sure they would
have made them funnier,
1484
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:22,720
but they weren't sure
how far I was going to go.
1485
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:26,720
Whereas I was prepared
to go as far as it took.
1486
01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:28,560
Well, I better get going
because, you know,
1487
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:30,040
I'm gonna have to get back
to work soon.
1488
01:33:30,080 --> 01:33:31,920
Come on, then, you.
I'll give you a quickie.
1489
01:33:31,960 --> 01:33:33,960
Boy, I'm not that desperate,
matey.
1490
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:35,240
Cheeky bastard.
1491
01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:38,360
♪ I'll be
Your sexual freak...
1492
01:33:38,400 --> 01:33:43,320
GERVAIS: I think he's
challenged the stereotype
of the gay man as well,
1493
01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:45,680
and what was acceptable.
1494
01:33:45,720 --> 01:33:50,640
Because, you know,
even when people were out in,
like the 60s, the 70s,
1495
01:33:50,680 --> 01:33:55,200
they were a safe, sexless,
gay man.
1496
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:57,800
Whereas George went,
I've got a cock.
1497
01:33:58,960 --> 01:34:02,760
And that frightened
some people.
1498
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:05,000
Yeah, literally, I imagine.
1499
01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:10,240
You know something about George,
he's really sexy.
1500
01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:12,080
You know? Really sexy.
1501
01:34:12,120 --> 01:34:15,680
And living with that,
good-looking,
sexy, talented...
1502
01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:17,520
You know,
it's tough out there.
1503
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:19,600
He's very hairy, isn't he?
1504
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,760
♪ Doing it to me, to me
1505
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:26,400
♪ I know that you're horny
1506
01:34:26,440 --> 01:34:29,680
♪ But there's something about
That Bush ain't right...
1507
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:34,040
♪ Right, right, right...
1508
01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:36,040
JOHN:
There's so many different
facets to George.
1509
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:38,160
And you can see him growing
as an artist
1510
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:41,680
and moving away
from the original stuff
into a more
1511
01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:45,080
beautiful kind of Edith Piaf,
Frank Sinatra territory.
1512
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:46,280
But it's George.
1513
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:53,520
♪ I was the kid
With the drum
1514
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:57,560
♪ Say, don't you remember?
1515
01:34:58,200 --> 01:35:01,440
♪ They called me Al
1516
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:08,800
♪ It was Al all the time
1517
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:12,760
♪ Say, don't you remember?
1518
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:16,600
♪ I'm your pal!
1519
01:35:16,640 --> 01:35:23,480
♪ Brother, can you spare
A dime?
1520
01:35:24,280 --> 01:35:31,080
♪ Buddy, can you spare
1521
01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:42,720
♪ A dime?
1522
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:52,600
AUSTIN: George can sing
with Stevie, Aretha or Elton.
1523
01:35:52,640 --> 01:35:56,600
And, as Tony Bennett said,
"You know,
everyone took two weeks.
1524
01:35:56,640 --> 01:35:58,200
George came in and did it
in a day."
1525
01:35:58,240 --> 01:36:01,480
♪ How do you keep
The music playing?
1526
01:36:01,520 --> 01:36:03,960
♪ When I feel for her
1527
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:05,520
BENNETT: I just loved him.
He was very friendly.
1528
01:36:05,560 --> 01:36:07,080
We got along great.
1529
01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:11,080
He just walked in
very prepared
and he was so spontaneous.
1530
01:36:11,120 --> 01:36:13,160
We did it in one take.
1531
01:36:13,200 --> 01:36:17,640
I couldn't believe
how equipped he was.
1532
01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:19,240
♪ May not see...
1533
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:24,080
And I remember saying,
"Boy, this guy is going to be
around a long time."
1534
01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:27,560
♪ Forever
1535
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:31,160
I really am not
in the business
of selling myself anymore.
1536
01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:34,080
When I do it,
I want to do it properly.
1537
01:36:34,120 --> 01:36:38,880
Mostly I just said I respect
making music,
kind of like, I know, like,
1538
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:40,920
How much are we gonna shout
at the end of the day?
1539
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:43,640
It's the art form
that you love,
that you woke up that morning
1540
01:36:43,680 --> 01:36:45,240
and had to go to the studio
and record it
1541
01:36:45,280 --> 01:36:48,040
because it was like
bursting inside of you.
1542
01:36:48,080 --> 01:36:51,800
♪ It's like a conversation
1543
01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:57,080
♪ Where no-one stops
To breathe
1544
01:36:59,080 --> 01:37:02,480
♪ Is it my imagination?
1545
01:37:04,480 --> 01:37:09,760
♪ Or did God already leave
The table?
1546
01:37:10,480 --> 01:37:12,640
♪ Such destruction
1547
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:16,280
WONDER:
Music is a funny thing.
1548
01:37:16,320 --> 01:37:20,200
You have to remember
the language
that's forever spoken.
1549
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:27,720
And yet, it is that language
that we all understand.
1550
01:37:31,800 --> 01:37:34,960
♪ And the satellite says
1551
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:39,160
♪ "Take a look
At all we have"
1552
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:44,760
♪ But the old man says
1553
01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:51,760
♪ "You want my family,
For your liberty
1554
01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:57,120
♪ I can't do that"
1555
01:37:57,160 --> 01:38:00,520
BLIGE:
You're writing songs kind
of to set yourself free.
1556
01:38:00,560 --> 01:38:01,760
You're speaking
from your truth.
1557
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:03,560
You're speaking from your life
1558
01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:07,080
and four million, five million,
ten million people are like,
"Me too."
1559
01:38:07,840 --> 01:38:09,360
That's the payoff.
1560
01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:16,120
♪ Whether they be amber,
Green or blue
1561
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:23,480
♪ There's a piece of God
Staring back at you
1562
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:25,920
MICHAEL: Funnily enough,
1563
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:29,200
in the last five,
six years of my life,
1564
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:33,840
I've finally come to terms
with the fact
1565
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:35,600
that I'm not like other
people at all.
1566
01:38:36,800 --> 01:38:38,960
And maybe that is why
I'm a star.
1567
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:42,800
Maybe that is the bit
that I've never actually been
able to accept.
1568
01:38:42,840 --> 01:38:49,280
And since I was outed,
I feel like I've genuinely
learned to respect myself.
1569
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:54,480
I just believed I wasn't
a big enough a character
to support that kind of fame.
1570
01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:59,400
And actually, I understand
that I never
was like other people,
1571
01:38:59,440 --> 01:39:02,160
and I shouldn't have been
disappointed in myself
1572
01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:03,560
for not being
like other people.
1573
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:09,080
♪ Children in his arms
1574
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:15,600
♪ He turns his back
1575
01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:24,440
Okay. It's fine.
1576
01:39:24,480 --> 01:39:28,920
The moment I finished
the track "Patience",
I remember driving home,
1577
01:39:30,840 --> 01:39:32,040
you know,
listening to this album
1578
01:39:32,080 --> 01:39:33,440
that I never thought
would get finished
1579
01:39:33,480 --> 01:39:35,160
or made actually,
at some points,
1580
01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:39,280
and remember thinking
well, that is...
1581
01:39:41,160 --> 01:39:42,080
That's enough.
1582
01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:45,000
I finally thought,
you know what?
1583
01:39:46,200 --> 01:39:47,960
If a bus hit me tomorrow,
1584
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:53,360
I would be happy
with the music I left
in the world.
1585
01:39:55,800 --> 01:40:01,080
♪ Duh-du-du-duh
1586
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:04,040
♪ Duh-du-du-duh
1587
01:40:04,080 --> 01:40:05,760
♪ As around the sun
1588
01:40:05,800 --> 01:40:09,120
♪ The Earth knows
She's revolving
1589
01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:11,360
BLIGE: I absolutely,
definitely know
1590
01:40:11,400 --> 01:40:13,480
that George Michael
fits into the category
1591
01:40:13,520 --> 01:40:15,280
of a great artist,
a great performer.
1592
01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:17,160
♪ Just as hate knows
Love's the cure
1593
01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:19,960
♪ You can rest
Your mind assured
1594
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:21,120
♪ That I'll be loving...
1595
01:40:21,160 --> 01:40:22,840
BLIGE: You could hear pain,
you could hear joy,
1596
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:24,280
I mean,
you can hear everything.
1597
01:40:24,320 --> 01:40:27,320
♪ As now can't reveal
The mystery
1598
01:40:27,360 --> 01:40:29,160
♪ Of tomorrow
1599
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:34,360
WONDER: Mary J Blige
and George Michael
doing "As", it was amazing!
1600
01:40:34,400 --> 01:40:36,240
The marriage
of the two of them
1601
01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:41,080
was just a magical experience
of that song.
1602
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:44,000
And I was in awe
when I heard it.
1603
01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:46,160
♪ Until the rainbow
Burns the stars
1604
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:47,760
♪ Out of the sky
1605
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:53,040
♪ Until the ocean covers
Every mountain high
1606
01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:58,200
♪ Until the dolphins fly
And parrots live at sea
1607
01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:03,000
♪ Until we dream of life
And life becomes a dream
1608
01:41:03,040 --> 01:41:05,200
♪ Now ain't that loving you?
1609
01:41:05,240 --> 01:41:08,640
I know him
as an extremely gifted artist,
1610
01:41:08,680 --> 01:41:12,600
and I embrace the records
that he made
1611
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:17,040
with Aretha and Whitney,
probably my two
greatest vocalists.
1612
01:41:17,080 --> 01:41:21,640
♪ If we take this chance ♪ If we take this chance
1613
01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:25,760
♪ And extend
To each other romance
1614
01:41:26,240 --> 01:41:27,280
♪ And I hope
1615
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:28,800
♪ Baby, I hope
1616
01:41:28,840 --> 01:41:30,760
DAVIS:
You want to watch him,
you're interested in him,
1617
01:41:30,800 --> 01:41:34,720
you want to listen to him,
you want to know
what he's got to say.
1618
01:41:34,760 --> 01:41:39,120
The impact that he's had,
you have to see
when you go to his concerts.
1619
01:41:39,160 --> 01:41:42,360
You have to really see it.
It is phenomenal.
1620
01:41:42,400 --> 01:41:44,400
So, would you like
one more song?
1621
01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:48,360
The word I think I'm hearing
the most is...
1622
01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:50,120
♪ Freedom!
1623
01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:53,000
♪ Freedom!
1624
01:41:54,080 --> 01:41:56,120
♪ Freedom!
1625
01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:58,560
♪ You've gotta give
For what you take
1626
01:41:59,160 --> 01:42:00,880
♪ Freedom
1627
01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:03,880
♪ Freedom
1628
01:42:03,920 --> 01:42:07,040
When you play somebody
a record likeFreedom,
1629
01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:11,520
that music is going to continue
to mean something to people,
1630
01:42:11,560 --> 01:42:13,160
like, as long as it's heard.
1631
01:42:14,120 --> 01:42:16,760
♪ Freedom!
1632
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:18,880
And that's why you get
to have a three-decade career.
1633
01:42:19,680 --> 01:42:24,360
♪ All we have to do now
1634
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:27,120
♪ Is take these lies
1635
01:42:27,160 --> 01:42:30,920
♪ And make them true somehow
1636
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:34,040
♪ All we have to see
1637
01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:37,000
♪ Is that I don't belong
To you
1638
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:39,120
♪ And you don't belong to me
1639
01:42:39,160 --> 01:42:40,040
♪ Yeah! Yeah!
1640
01:42:40,080 --> 01:42:41,440
♪ Freedom
1641
01:42:42,840 --> 01:42:44,360
♪ Freedom
1642
01:42:45,120 --> 01:42:47,480
♪ Freedom
1643
01:42:47,520 --> 01:42:50,480
♪ You've gotta give
For what you take
1644
01:42:50,520 --> 01:42:51,960
♪ Freedom
1645
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:55,280
♪ Hold on to my freedom!
1646
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:57,840
♪ Freedom
1647
01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:00,520
♪ You've gotta give
For what you take
1648
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:03,040
♪ What you take
1649
01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:04,720
♪ Yeah
1650
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:08,120
♪ Yeah!
1651
01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:11,040
♪ You've gotta give
For what you
Give what you
1652
01:43:11,080 --> 01:43:13,840
♪ May not be what
You want from me
1653
01:43:13,880 --> 01:43:16,000
♪ Just the way
It's got to be!♪
1654
01:43:31,240 --> 01:43:34,200
INTERVIEWER:
What would you be hopeful
for as a way to be remembered?
1655
01:43:34,240 --> 01:43:36,640
You mean what would I like
written on my...
1656
01:43:36,680 --> 01:43:37,760
INTERVIEWER:
Well, let's not go that far.
1657
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:39,760
Okay.
1658
01:43:39,800 --> 01:43:41,800
INTERVIEWER: But I mean,
what would you hope the legacy
that's attached to your name is?
1659
01:43:44,720 --> 01:43:46,000
Great songwriter.
1660
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:48,160
You know, and...
1661
01:43:53,960 --> 01:43:56,480
I think two things. One...
1662
01:43:56,520 --> 01:43:59,640
You know,
great singer-songwriter
from a period of time
1663
01:43:59,680 --> 01:44:03,760
which I don't think
will be seen again, you know?
1664
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:07,040
I don't think youth culture
will produce people like
1665
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:09,320
myself and Madonna and Prince.
1666
01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:11,240
I don't think it's going
to do that anymore.
1667
01:44:12,280 --> 01:44:14,200
I think it's too fragmented now.
1668
01:44:14,240 --> 01:44:17,160
So, I'd like to be remembered
as one of those last,
1669
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:22,120
kind of big stars
in the sense that there
was a certain glamour to it.
1670
01:44:23,920 --> 01:44:26,400
But really,
it's just the songs.
1671
01:44:26,440 --> 01:44:28,400
And I hope that people think
of me
1672
01:44:28,440 --> 01:44:31,080
as someone who had
some kind of integrity.
1673
01:44:31,120 --> 01:44:33,640
And I hope I'm remembered
for that in a way.
1674
01:44:33,680 --> 01:44:35,960
Very unlikely. I think it's all
been a waste of time.
1675
01:44:36,680 --> 01:44:38,400
Waste of effort.
1676
01:44:38,440 --> 01:44:43,080
♪ I'd say love
Was a magical thing
1677
01:44:43,120 --> 01:44:47,400
♪ I'd say love would keep us
From pain
1678
01:44:47,440 --> 01:44:49,600
♪ Had I been there
1679
01:44:52,080 --> 01:44:54,560
♪ Had I been there
1680
01:44:57,560 --> 01:45:02,280
♪ I would promise you
All of my life
1681
01:45:02,320 --> 01:45:06,520
♪ But to lose you would cut
Like a knife
1682
01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:08,960
♪ So, I don't dare
1683
01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:15,440
♪ No, I don't dare!
1684
01:45:15,480 --> 01:45:18,440
♪ 'Cause I never came close
1685
01:45:18,480 --> 01:45:20,480
♪ In all of these years
1686
01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:25,640
♪ You are the only one
To stop my tears
1687
01:45:25,680 --> 01:45:29,840
♪ And I'm so scared
1688
01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:32,760
♪ I'm so scared
1689
01:46:13,320 --> 01:46:15,520
♪ Take me back in time
1690
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:18,040
♪ Maybe I can forget
1691
01:46:18,080 --> 01:46:20,240
♪ Turn a different corner
1692
01:46:20,280 --> 01:46:24,640
♪ And we never
Would have met
1693
01:46:27,200 --> 01:46:31,280
♪ Would you care?
1694
01:46:32,560 --> 01:46:37,240
♪ I don't understand it
For you, it's a breeze
1695
01:46:37,280 --> 01:46:39,520
♪ Little by little
1696
01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:46,160
♪ You've brought me
To my knees
1697
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:51,080
♪ Don't you care?
1698
01:46:51,120 --> 01:46:54,160
♪ No, I've never come close
1699
01:46:54,200 --> 01:46:56,040
♪ In all of these years
1700
01:46:56,080 --> 01:47:01,120
♪ You are the only one
To stop my tears
1701
01:47:01,160 --> 01:47:04,720
♪ I'm so scared
1702
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:07,920
♪ Of this love
1703
01:47:10,200 --> 01:47:15,440
♪ And if all that there is
Is this fear of being used
1704
01:47:15,480 --> 01:47:19,080
♪ I should go back
To being lonely
1705
01:47:19,120 --> 01:47:21,960
♪ And confused
1706
01:47:24,480 --> 01:47:29,200
♪ If I could, I would
1707
01:47:29,240 --> 01:47:31,560
♪ I swear
1708
01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:43,360
♪ Oh
1709
01:47:43,400 --> 01:47:46,560
♪ Yes, I swear
1710
01:48:02,360 --> 01:48:04,840
♪ If I could
1711
01:48:05,360 --> 01:48:07,440
♪ I would
1712
01:48:07,480 --> 01:48:10,120
♪ I swear
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