IN 1996 , GEORGE MICHAEL BARED HIS SOUL TO US IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. HERE’S A LOOK BACK AT THE LOVE STORY THAT FUELLED THE GENIUS
The year 1996 was a special one for George Michael. He released Older , the LP he always considered his finest work. And he also broke his silence, talking to the press for the first time in six years, by doing an exclusive interview with The Big Issue.
This was a period of great change for the singer. He had experienced such life-changing love and such acute loss before writing Older that he was a new man, a different artist.
That he channelled his feelings into one of the great pop albums of the 1990s, before choosing to speak to a magazine he knew was helping people through their own difficulties, is a measure of the man.
Only after his death aged just 53, five years ago last Christmas, did the full extent of his volunteering, his charitable giving and the
