On his early career as the lead in the two-man boy band Wham!, Michael recalls: “We were taking the piss out of ourselves half the time.
Almost invariably, these moments come via Michael’s own words.
Some moments in the new George Michael documentary Freedom: Uncut blur the line between the two, elevating the movie into momentary transcendence. There’s the story a celebrity wants to you hear, and then there’s the truth.
George Michael performs on stage in Australia, March 1988.