“It’s all about Thatcher and Reagan really, but I don’t think I’d express it that much better if I did it today,” Michael said in 2010. “Hand to Mouth” is a song about societal outcasts-like a vigilante gunman and a prostitute who leaves her baby on a stranger’s front steps. Faith isn’t mere pop fluff.Īlthough it was a massive mainstream pop album, Faith tackles some pretty heavy subjects. I know when something resonates, and one of my saving graces is that I can hear something when I stumble upon it.” 8. “A couple of things in my career have been a complete accident, where I stumbled upon the sound. (The snares are replaced by finger snaps on the finished recording.) “It suddenly becomes a gospel record,” Michael said. Michael happened to listen to the track without the snare, and he loved the result. Something similar happened with “Father Figure,” a song that originally featured a proper snare drum throughout. Porter was going to reset the machines, but Michael liked the odd noise, and they wound up using it during the song’s intro. Listen closely at the beginning of “I Want Your Sex,” and you’ll hear what engineer Chris Porter described as a “squelching, pulsing bass sound.” This was created purely by mistake, as something went haywire with the MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) unit and the drum machine began triggering odd sounds in the synthesizers. I wanted to be in that vein but, mostly, I wanted to make music as good as theirs.” 2. “I’d gone from, a couple of years before, being perfectly happy with being on Top of the Pops, to thinking, ‘I can do what Michael Jackson can do.’ I mean, he’d just done Thriller for f**k’s sake! I wouldn’t have the guts now. “I absolutely wanted to be in the same stratosphere as them, definitely,” Michael said in 2010. While writing and recording Faith, Michael began thinking about himself as being in the same league as Michael Jackson and Prince. George Michael had major aspirations for the album. In honor of its 35th anniversary, here are 10 facts about Faith. Faith was a massive hit with both audiences and critics, and it remains one of the decade’s defining albums. Gone was the goofy guy in the short shorts and fingerless yellow gloves seen in the music video for 1984’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.” Here was a stubbly dude in a biker jacket and aviators singing mature songs about sex and love. This exclusive club of musical juggernauts got a new member in October 1987, when George Michael-the British singer, songwriter, and producer who’d made his name as one-half of the oft-dismissed bubblegum duo Wham!-released his blockbuster solo debut, Faith.īlending pop, R&B, funk, ’50s rockabilly, and even jazz, Faith completely changed people’s perceptions of George Michael and his music. With the advent of MTV, visually minded artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince suddenly had the opportunity to rule the culture as no artists had ever done before. The idea of pop stardom fundamentally changed in the 1980s.
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