It's easy to understand why George Michael never came out of the closet during his heyday, which extends to the Faith/Sex solo album and however long his sex symbol status made him a star (I was at the Elton Johnson/Eric Clapton concert when he surprisingly walked out to sing Don't Let The Sun, and boy the women loved him, and these were older women: I've never heard women scream that loud in my life, it was really something else, and at this point, even part of pop music history)...
But going back, in the beginning of his big success with WHAM, he needed to seem like he was a dream boyfriend to all the screaming girls, which were the biggest aspect of their fan-base... Coming out as gay or for that matter, even being engaged to a woman ruins the business plan of being someone any girl fan can possibly acquire...
And it was nobody's business what George's sexuality was during the prime of WHAM or during his initial so success... It was HIS OWN business... Only nowadays does sexuality have to come before talent... It wasn't that way before... But even here he seems to have to apologize for keeping himself a secret (and had he NOT kept his private life secret, god knows the media would have killed him earlier than they ultimately did)...
The sad part of this otherwise pretty good, You Tube style documentary is that poor Andrew Ridgeley, always known as the other guy, was really just that... He seemed to play guitar but most of the guitars on the albums were from session players... and the two girls were really the background singers...
Other than Careless Whisper, Andrew didn't write any of the hit songs like Michael, who was also the producer... It's sad, really, but then again, this documentary does show that it was Andrew who brought George out of his shell... If it weren't for Andrew perhaps there would be no George at all...
Some have been asking for a part 2 about George Michael's huge solo career, which was even bigger than WHAM for a while (before he burned out way too soon), but to me, learning more about Andrew Ridgeley would be far more interesting...
Although, with that, perhaps just watch the Hugh Grant movie Music & Lyrics, which was obviously influenced by that other guy.
But going back, in the beginning of his big success with WHAM, he needed to seem like he was a dream boyfriend to all the screaming girls, which were the biggest aspect of their fan-base... Coming out as gay or for that matter, even being engaged to a woman ruins the business plan of being someone any girl fan can possibly acquire...
And it was nobody's business what George's sexuality was during the prime of WHAM or during his initial so success... It was HIS OWN business... Only nowadays does sexuality have to come before talent... It wasn't that way before... But even here he seems to have to apologize for keeping himself a secret (and had he NOT kept his private life secret, god knows the media would have killed him earlier than they ultimately did)...
The sad part of this otherwise pretty good, You Tube style documentary is that poor Andrew Ridgeley, always known as the other guy, was really just that... He seemed to play guitar but most of the guitars on the albums were from session players... and the two girls were really the background singers...
Other than Careless Whisper, Andrew didn't write any of the hit songs like Michael, who was also the producer... It's sad, really, but then again, this documentary does show that it was Andrew who brought George out of his shell... If it weren't for Andrew perhaps there would be no George at all...
Some have been asking for a part 2 about George Michael's huge solo career, which was even bigger than WHAM for a while (before he burned out way too soon), but to me, learning more about Andrew Ridgeley would be far more interesting...
Although, with that, perhaps just watch the Hugh Grant movie Music & Lyrics, which was obviously influenced by that other guy.