George Michael - 'Careless Whisper'

[Cerro de Casa]

With the angles now. Why did he leave us?

 

[Cerro de Casa]

And yes that performance captures the peak of his beauty to me.

 

[RS]

100/10

 

[.org]

There are not many songs in the history of recorded music that are better than this, so anything less than a 10 would be ridiculous.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

@Ag you have some mansplainin' to do hun.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

@Ag you have some mansplainin' to do hun.

I don't care for it.

 

[Penelope]

Very dull. Nice that he chucked a cowrite credit to Andrew Ridgeley so he NEVER HAD TO WORK AGAIN though

 

[Kratz]

Was there ever a more perfect pop male voice?

 

[octophone]

I'm taking the opportunity to post this:



Given that George had a decent sense of humour, I think he'd have appreciated it.

 

[Joseph]

 

[octophone]

Have we seen the wildly overpriced reissue?

Careless Whisper 40th Anniversary

store.georgemichael.com

 

[Christian]

It should be so naff, but it really works. Imagine being able to write this at 18

George binning the original (and expensive) Jerry Wexler version and going off and doing it himself must have seemed like the height of hubris to the record company. But boy does he turn it from something drab into something really special.

WHAT a guy