his legacy? oh, gosh. i mean, number one, a laundry list but we re just talking about the music. i mean, we will be left with some of the most heart wrenching, beautiful playing his music there from wham which started and introduced us all to george michael. but then his solo career was really where we started to see where the man was shaped. it was interesting, we talk often about blue eyed soul in the music industry. well, there s something about these british-born fellows that have this soul that is just embedded in them and, for me and for a lot of, number one, the african-american community and the people who just love soul music, elton john and george michael were one and two. our soul brother from another mother and that is so true. you talked about his album
real shock to you. yeah, we were first introduced of course to george michael when he was in the group wham! which he created with andrew ridgeley and that kind of woke us all up. i remember having the wham! teeshirt that was hanging off my shoulder, you know, and that was as a child, so yes, we all have grown up with george michael and we love that music but it really wasn t until he went solo that i think we began to see his heart as a man, as a musician and really see the thoughtfulness that he carried with him day after day. he made songs like father figure and one more try that really spoke to the soul but you were playing i want your sex and at the time when that song came out it was almost taboo. there were radio stations that didn t want to touch it. they thought it was too much. but it was a song that was not made to promote sexual