But at the time I just wanted to make a clear start. Maybe if I’d felt more secure, I would have felt no need to shake things up. “It’s hard to tell whether or not it would have happened at that time had it not been for that relationship failing. “The actual Wham! split was definitely provoked by my emotional distress around that period,” he mused. While George and Andrew had always been aware of Wham!’s shelf life, George admitted that his troubled personal life marked the beginning of the end for the group. Although songs such as I’m Your Man and The Edge Of Heaven were among the strongest of Wham!’s career, George felt that the direction in which he was heading as a songwriter was increasingly at odds with everything Wham! stood for. In late 1985, having begun laying down tracks for Wham!’s third studio album, he decided to end the group. The failure of his relationship, at the time the most significant of his life, had a profound effect on George, altering his views on everything, particularly his career. “Waking up and just wishing that somehow you could just go back to sleep and the day would disappear and you wouldn’t wake up. “It was the worst feeling in the world,” he told Rolling Stone magazine of his subsequent depression.
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The previous 12 months had been a time of professional highs, with Wham! experiencing a newfound critical appraisal to match their continued commercial success, but this was compounded by the lowest of lows in George’s private life following the break-up of a relationship. On the other, he was experiencing a sense of liberation that he could finally channel his energy and emotions into making the album he truly wanted to make.
On the one hand, he was genuinely moved because “I knew inside that this would be the last time that I would ever perform some of those songs live”. George Michael was experiencing mixed emotions. I t’s 28 June 1986 and 72,000 fans are bidding an emotional farewell to Wham! at The Final concert at Wembley Stadium. Shedding his past, George Michael ditched the fun and sunshine of Wham!, looked inwards for inspiration and bared all in order to create his first true masterpiece… By Mark Lindores
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