Today you’re being treated to a double shot from the beautiful George Michael, who was on last year’s list with Wham! serving a song I can’t believe I’d forgotten on the first list of top 50. You can say so much about George Michael and you can try and pigeon hole him into some kind of category, but I always knew this was an artist, a brilliant soul inside a beautiful face with a sexy voice. A rare, ballsy talent washed in ambiguous sexuality. The first song today is Freedom ’90, made popular by the super-models in the video, but with the slight gay undertones that I had been looking for all along. It’s his coming of age song, the start of his open closet door. I can go on for days about this song. It is perfection; the fugue of his smoky voice over itself throughout the verse and chorus. The video features the most beautiful women in the world lip synching his words with the complete absence of the singer himself. Brilliant. And then there’s the out-and-proud George, amid the turmoil of American tabloid nonsense, looking more mature but still as sexy as eve as he brings us FastLove, one of the sexist songs ever by anyone. This was a blaster; it was on one of our Structure tapes and I would rewind it and blast it during those moments when I was the only one in the store. I can still close my eyes and be taken elsewhere. It calls to mind my consistent crushes on all the hot young sales reps I’d hire based partially on their looks
From the historical writing archive. Original date: November 2, 2017. Recovered from local source material; editorial review is still in progress.