Bare by Michael George 1963-;Parsons Tony & Parsons Tony

Author:Michael, George, 1963-;Parsons, Tony & Parsons, Tony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Michael, George, Biography and autobiography, Rock and pop, Rock and pop
Publisher: London : Penguin Books
Published: 1991-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

MAY 1984-MARCH 1985

and, as Warhol said, 'You don't read your Press clippings -you weigh them.' An avalanche of dumb headlines was to follow in the coming years.

*tv pop shows chop George's naughty bits! - Star's New Video Is Too Raunchy', 'baron's swipe at george -Rumours About Tania And This Michael Character Are Rubbish', 'no respect for george - His Songs Are Too Dirty, Says Aretha', 'wham girl's stolen night of love - My Sexy Antics With Andrew', 'sexy wiggle flattens george - Pop Idol Injured'.

After the Hootergate affair had blown over, it soon became less fun to be in the lurid limelight. Girls they had never met turned up on centre spreads revealing drip-by-drip details of 'nights of love' - on one memorable occasion, a cardboard cut-out of Andrew was produced for the photo session as conclusive proof of intimacy. George and Andrew had a price on their heads - or at least on their sexual peccadillos. They began to despise the flashbulb glare and prurient, prying eyes of the media - though, all through the Wham! years, it was Andrew who seemed to bear the brunt of the tabloid shitstorm, as if compensating his partner for the burden of creativity, always acting as the lightning rod for the band's bad publicity. And slowly the popular, public image of Andrew began to change: from Randy Andy, the naughty but nice boy about town (kind of a commoner version of the other so-called Randy Andy, Prince and Playboy) to Randy Andy, the violent slob, the puking pig, George Michael's useless other half - the Vomit Fountain in full effect.

□ Shirlie: I think Andrew got more caught up in the lifestyle than George did. Andrew believed in the Press too much - and then he wanted to rebel against them, to make even more of an idiot of himself. I think in the end he felt it was all true. He started to think he was really like that - oh, I am a drunk. I am wild.

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