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	Faith (George Michael album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faith is George Michael's first solo album which was released in 1987.
		The album hit number 1 on the Billboard charts and it was the first album by a white solo artist to hit number 1 on the RandB charts.
		Faith was ranked 79th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faith_(George_Michael_album) (172 words)

	George Michael biography
		Michael began work on his first solo album, but if he was out to cultivate a grown-up image as a songwriter and singer, his first single proved a serious error of judgement: with its facile lyric (and ludicrous 'Huuaargh, sex!' background vocals), "I Want Your Sex" had all the sensuous subtlety of a giggling schoolboy.
		Faith may have attracted precious metal like a magnet, but as a decade of virtually unparalleled success drew to a close, the increasingly private Michael felt dissatisfied with the pressures and trappings of stardom.
		George Michael's conviction in the US for what's known as 'cottaging' in the UK forced him to state publicly that he was gay - an old story that had been circulating in the music industry since his time with Wham (with Boy George's biography Take It Like A Man being particularly scathing).
	www.geocities.com /astiwana/gmbiog.htm (1230 words)

	CNN - Exclusive: George Michael acknowledges homosexuality - April 11, 1998
		Michael, 34, was alone in the restroom of a Beverly Hills park Tuesday evening when an undercover officer saw him allegedly commit the act.
		Michael, whose real name is Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, apologized to his fans for the alleged incident, saying he hoped they would stand by him.
		Michael earned stardom as one-half of the 1980s teeny-bopper duo Wham!, which hit it big with "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Careless Whisper." After the duo broke up, Michael went solo, and saw his 1987 debut album "Faith" sell more than 10 million copies.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9804/11/george.michael (500 words)

	George Michael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou born on June 25 1963 in North London.
		George Michael was the first white male vocalist ever to record with legend Aretha Franklin.
		George was arrested for 'lewd conduct' in a public toilet 1998.
	www.sonymusic.com /artists/GeorgeMichael/bio.html (441 words)

	Encyclopedia: Faith (George Michael album)
		Look up Album in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things.
		George Michael George Michael (born June 25, 1963) is a Greek-British pop singer/songwriter born in East Finchley, London.
		1987 albums I Want Your Sex was a single from both the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop II and George Michaels Faith album, and first charted in July 1987.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Faith-(George-Michael-album) (619 words)

	Wham!
		In 1998, Michael made tabloid headlines when he was arrested for lewd conduct in a men's public restroom at a park near his Beverly Hills home; following the incident, the singer appeared on CNN and publicly revealed his homosexuality.
		Michael was sued for $10 million by the police officer who arrested him.
		Michael pleaded no contest to the 1998 charge, and was ordered to perform 80 hours of community service, undergo counselling and pay a $910 fine.
	www.classicbands.com /wham.html (904 words)

	George Michael MP3 Downloads - George Michael Music Downloads - George Michael Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Almost immediately after he became an international superstar with 1987's Faith, George Michael developed a complex that he was not taken seriously as an artist.
		Michael took six years to deliver Older, a delay that was initially blamed on a vicious battle with his record company, Sony, but its own successor, Patience, didn't appear for another eight years, a time which not only had no spats with the label but also saw him re-signing to Sony.
		That's unfortunate because the core of the album is quite good: it's hard not to admire his studiocraft, there's a starkly confessional streak in his writing that's disarmingly direct, and, as an album, it balances the moody ballads and sleek neo-disco better than Older, feeling much brighter than that claustrophobic affair.
	www.mp3.com /albums/626078/summary.html (720 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Michael, George
		The death spurred Michael to write a coming-out letter to his parents who, according to him, were more concerned that he had just lost his partner than that he had actually finally said what they already knew.
		Michael's popularity seems only to have been enhanced by his "coming out," despite the circumstances that forced him to be more honest than he intended.
		Moreover, in the summer of 2002 Michael found himself at the center of a firestorm prompted by the release in Britain of "Shoot the Dog," a video and song skewering the polices of President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair in the wake of the war on terrorism.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/michael_g.html (1425 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Faith in the good life
		Michael is not the first major artist to release music online but he could set a precedent by releasing all future work to the public for free.
		George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in 1963, the son of a Greek-Cypriot restaurateur.
		Michael's sombre 1996 album Older was dedicated to Anselmo, while the most moving song on Patience is about his mother's brother, a gay man who committed suicide in the Fifties.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1168920,00.html (1553 words)

	Rock On The Net: George Michael
		George Michael was born as Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on June 25, 1963 in England.
		Michael was arrested in Los Angeles for "lewd behavior" when an undercover cop observed him performing a "lewd act" alone in a public restroom.
		Michael found out he was being sued by the Beverly Hills policeman (who arrested him last year for lewd behavior) for $10 million for public insults and accusations.
	www.rockonthenet.com /artists-m/georgemichael_main.htm (1322 words)

	New George Michael album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But you're gotta have faith in George and Patience will leave the critics and fans in no doubt that he is back - and at his best.
		Other tracks on the album include a tribute to John Lennon and Elvis Presley and a sensational ballad called Through, which finishes off the album perfectly.
		George recorded Patience at London's Air Studios and it goes out under Sony, with whom he famously fought, and lost, a costly legal battle.
	www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/alt.music/messages/80105.html (376 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Michael praised for protest cover
		Michael, who has spoken out against preparations for a possible attack against Iraq, is recording the harrowing song The Grave which will be played by MTV UK and Ireland from Monday.
		Michael has left the hard-hitting lyrics largely unchanged for his version of the song, which he has already performed on Channel 4's V Graham Norton.
		Michael has been criticised in the press after his video for his last single, Shoot the Dog, showed Tony Blair as a poodle on the White House lawn.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/2811395.stm (417 words)

	VH1.com : George Michael : Biography
		As songwriter and lead singer, Michael gradually overshadowed the group, and by the time they split, he was ready for a massively successful solo career.
		That Michael had not achieved a similar critical success was evident from the title of his follow-up album, Listen Without Prejudice, Vol.
		After the failure of Listen Without Prejudice, Michael engaged in a bitter legal battle with his record company, accusing them of not properly promoting the album and asking them to release him from his contract; he stated that he would refuse to release any records if he lost the lawsuit.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/michael_george/bio.jhtml (356 words)

	Amazon.com: Patience: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		George was arrested for lewd conduct in 1998.
		But it was his 1988 smash album Faith, turning out six Number One singles including "Father Figure," "I Want Your Sex," "Kissing A Fool," and the title cut, that won the Album of the Year at the Grammy's and made George Michael a bonafide superstar.
		George Michael proved one cliché to be absolutely true: Patience is most definitely a virtue.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00020SHH6?v=glance (2382 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / He was in, until he was out
		At the sparkling height of his career in 1987, Michael's first solo album, "Faith," went on to sell 10 million copies and spawned a handful of chart-topping hits, including "I Want Your Sex," "Father Figure," and "One More Try." In 1988, "Faith" won the Grammy for album of the year.
		Michael was a teen idol, an image he both reveled in and shunned, but he was also a fine pop craftsman who wrote, composed, and produced "Faith," a musical hallmark for the decade.
		Still, the greatest obstacle to Michael's comeback seems to be his acknowledgment of his homosexuality, after his arrest for lewd behavior in an LA park restroom six years ago this week.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/04/06/he_was_in_until_he_was_out (891 words)

	Faith (George Michael)
		"Faith" was a massive hit when released, hitting #1 on the Hot 100 Album Charts, and gave Michael four #1 hits (the aforementioned songs and the title track), as well as a Grammy for Album of the Year.
		The album shot straight to #1 on the Hot 200, sold over 10 million copies in the US alone, spawned no less than six Top 10 singles on the Hot 100, and even took home the highly-coveted "Album of the Year" Grammy award.
		The album's fifth single, the almost ridiculously catchy "Monkey" (#1 Pop, #6 R&B, #1 Dance), is similar in spirit, and somehow succeeds at the nearly impossible task of incorporating a meaningful analogy (in this case, the pain of being in love with someone who is a drug addict) into a irresistibly silly pop ditty.
	www.productsnapper.com /B0000026CH-faith.html (1463 words)

	George Michael : Faith - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Michael had already proven the soulful power of his pipes by singing a duet with Aretha Franklin on the 1987 smash "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)," but he went even farther when it came to crafting his own material, using sophisticated '70s soul as an indispensable part of his foundation.
		Faith's ingenuity lies in the way it straddles pop, adult contemporary, R&B, and dance music as though there were no distinctions between them.
		All of it adds up to one of the finest pop albums of the '80s, setting a high-water mark that Michael was only able to reach in isolated moments afterward.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,130948,00.html (536 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : George Michael
		It sailed to number one in the UK album charts, but at the time, he could have released a steaming pile of dung as an album, and it would have still sailed to number one in the UK album charts.
		As a follow up to the massive Faith I wasn't sure about this album on first hearing it, it is so far removed from the Faith sound that at first I felt he had tried too hard to be different.
		Older was Michael's best album, though i can see why the guy's an acquired taste: he's a bit too smooth, i suppose, but at his best, he can deliver a very sleek, nice tune.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /gmichael.html (784 words)

	George Michael - Faith (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		MICHAEL first served his pop apprenticeship in the million-selling duo WHAM!, the most commercially successful, teen-orientated group of the 80s.
		As a pin-up pop idol, MICHAEL had allowed himself to become a paste-board figure, best remembered for glorifying a hedonistic lifestyle and shoving shuttlecocks down his shorts in concert.
		Michael's re-emergence came in 1988, resplendent in leather and shades and his customary designer stubble.
	kj-forster.de /music/details/4832.html (312 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Michael had already proven the soulful power of his pipes by singing a duet with Aretha Franklin on the 1987 smash "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)," but he went even farther when it came to crafting his own...
		The second half of the album is okay, a bit hit & miss but overall this is a nice effort and has aged nicely considering it came out in the 80s and the kind of tacky production technique they employed back then (check the uneccesary remix track for some awful sounding 80s mess).
		George didn't have to release another album as long as he lived, he did his thing right with this album.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000026CH (995 words)

	Faith The Official Presence Of The Baha'i Faith On The Web. Comprehensive Body Of Authentic Material Pr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		That Faith Hill would increase the pop elements of her music doesn't come as a wait between the release of FAITH and her last album IT MATTERS.
		Faith, George Michael and released his first solo album, "Faith" in January of 1987 You will see why this album is outstanding in every way.
		Martin Luther's Definition of Faith: An excerpt from "An Introduction to St EA 63:124-125] August 1994 Faith is not what some people think it is. Faith, a small cowboy community of 571 people, is located at the crossroads of Highway 212 and 73 in northwestern South Dakota.
	www.99hosted.com /names1669.html (491 words)

	George Michael to put all his faith in the Internet
		Michael, 40, apparently told BBC Radio he was getting out of the music business and would put all his future songs on the internet for free.
		After attacking George Bush, and coming out of the water closet, Michael has gone one-step further in killing off his 80’s and 90’s image in a manner Bill would have approved.
		He has said he would never make another album for sale in record shops, because he did not need the money and wanted to be less famous.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=14643 (319 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Faith - George Michael at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Composing, producing and playing most of the instruments on the album himself, "Faith" very closely recals the most pop-friendly work of someone George most definitely was trying to emulate: Prince.
		George has gone on since to be known as a confessional songwriter, but this was really the first instance where it sounds like he really laid his heart out on a song.
		There was the protracted battle with his record company, there was the whole bathroom incident, there was the Bush-bashing (who knew George could tell the future?), but if you want the perfect pop/soul album, "Faith" is right there-just a few steps away from "Thriller" and "Purple Rain".
	www.epinions.com /content_112813313668 (825 words)

	RockNet Album Review: George Michael's "Older" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Before and after "Move On," yet another languid ballad on George Michael's long-awaited return, there's a smattering of applause, as if the song were being performed in a high-class night club to an audience as interested in its gossip and next drink as in the music.
		"Older" is a disappointment, certainly, for those who were expecting Michael to return with a bang, but it does lay the groundwork for a long career as a polished singer of smooth love songs.
		Still, it's not "Faith," and I may need somebody to wake me up before I go-go whenever "Older" is on the CD player.
	www.rocknet.com /jun96/g_mich.html (227 words)

	Faith by George Michael Songfacts
		This was Michael's first solo album, and second single as a solo artist (after "I Want Your Sex").
		Limp Bizkit covered this on their first album in 1997, and for a while it was their best-known song.
		On their album, the song is track 9.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.lasso?id=2695 (275 words)

	George Michael Puts Faith in Web - Mar 11, 2004 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The reclusive pop star has decided he's done making albums for record labels and instead plans to distribute his tunes via the Internet and donate all of the proceeds to charity.
		The 40-year-old Michael made the announcement in an interview with BBC Radio 1 on Wednesday, a week before Patience, his first collection of new material in eight-plus years, hits record stores in Britain.
		Following his arrest, Michael outed himself; he then pleaded no contest to the lewd conduct charge stemming from the restroom incident and was fined $800 and ordered to do community service.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,13687,00.html (599 words)

	The George Michael Info Page - Latest News
		George Michael's Patience was released on the 15th of March (except North America - released on the 18th of May).
		The album Patience was released in the USA and Canada on the 18th of May. The North American release though does not contain the controversial track Shoot the Dog nor the instrumental Patience Part II.
		George Michael also talked about his appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and about his relationship with Kenny.
	www.gminfopage.com /news (1484 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Patience - George Michael at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		George Michael made his fans wait 8 years for a new album.
		George seems to have removed all the barriers between his personal thoughts and emotions and is letting everything hang out.
		For most of the album, George sings in a very vocally controlled and restrained fashion.
	www.epinions.com /content_156820541060 (500 words)

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		I can really "groove" to this album when I am cruising down the street but I usually use something else to demo my car to friends.
		I feel that George Michael's Faith album is a good album to test the mid-bass of a system since there is a lot of tight drum beats.
		The two earlier albums of Eddie Brickelle and The New Bohemians are exllent to test mid and upper midrange.
	www.ee.pdx.edu /~thunder5/Caraudio/car.demo (289 words)

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