![]() ![]() I wonder if men of varying generations will have different reactions to this documentary. I doubt John Lennon or Paul McCartney would recognise anything in this. There is a lack of competitiveness or rancour between Ridgeley and Michael as life takes them in radically different directions - including allowing Michael solo performances as part of the band - that is rare in their field. Brian May leans into Michael at one point and mouths, with a stunned smile, "Beautiful!".īy the time George Michael brings the song to its famous acapella climax, Bowie breaks into a laugh of astonishment: he figures out what Michael is going to do here when it's live, and it's going to be magic. ![]() But now, Bowie was watching this still golden-haired man-child pick up this mighty song - with its gospel stylings and impossibly rapid lyrics - and toss it around like it was a frisbee. ![]() Hair slick, sunglasses fixed, Michael is tearing through one of the toughest songs in a huge musical cannon: the swooping, soaring vocals of Somebody to Love, the anthem that will thrill a concert attended by 72,000 people, and watched live by 1 billion more.Ī few hours earlier Bowie had rehearsed with Annie Lennox the hit song he wrote with Queen, Under Pressure - a weird, tricky song that tested the Eurythmics singer to her limits. * For "Careless Whisper", the Columbia Record label read 'Wham! Featuring George Michael'.Far off in the wings, to the right of stage during the rehearsals for Queen's 1992 Wembley tribute concert to their beloved, lost lead singer Freddie Mercury, David Bowie lifts his chin and coolly regards George Michael. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 11, 1985, a video of Wham!'s "Everything She Wants" was aired on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'.Īt the time the song was at #8 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, two weeks later it would peak at #1. ![]()
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