were affected by his music and his life. and let s talk about just who he was. i mean, he was beautiful. he was sexy. he was soulful. in the 90s, he released this risque single i want your sex and at the time people don t realize, perhaps millennials, but that was pretty controversial back then. yeah, it was pretty controversial. and there was a sense, you know, there was some element of exactly how subconsciously controversial it was. it was really that heyday of mtv and you know, putting out a song like that and a video like that, it was bound to, you know, raise eyebrows, as you say. and create a ruckus. but yeah, it was a pretty harmless song for the most part. and he went out of his way to kind of, you know, tamp down some of the more kind of extreme responses to it. he was pretty responsible about that. and he also came out in an interview on cnn, this is back in 1998, and i want to play a quick clip of that and talk about that on the other end.
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