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Amy Winehouse fan George Michael says "We should support her"
In a frank and revealing interview on 大象传媒 Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, George Michael talks of his support for Amy Winehouse.
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Speaking to presenter Kirsty Young, George Michael describes Amy Winehouse as "the best female vocalist I've heard in my entire career" and says "we should support her".
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He also expresses his gratitude to his fans for their support during a "bizarre year" and reveals that he has a propensity for guilt and was a budding entomologist as a young boy.
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And George Michael talks about his theory that a bump on his head when he was eight-years-old might have been responsible for his interest in music.
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On Amy Winehouse: "This is the best female vocalist I've heard in my entire career and one of the best writers, so all I can say is, 'Please, please understand how brilliant you are', and I wish her every success in the future and I know she can get past the media, I don't know if she can get past other things but she's a fantastic talent and we should support her."
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On the past year and his fans: "It's been a very bizarre year because you can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15, that's been the most life-affirming thing I could have done. I'm so glad I did it [went on tour]."
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"It's not the adulation that's been nice, it's the absolute warmth, it's the complete generosity. I genuinely believe the purpose of what I do is a positive one. I really do genuinely believe that most of my songs are life-affirming in some way.
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"And actually people who don't care about your music, thinking lots of things about you that aren't true, it really doesn't matter. And what's wonderful is that a lot of them who think they are true, really don't care, so I'm such a lucky man.
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"It's so annoying people trying to give the impression the world is a totally screwed up place and I really needed those people in front of me night after night to tell me that it wasn't. I really needed it so badly, I'm so grateful to them."
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On insect collecting: "At the age of about eight I had a head injury and I know it sounds bizarre and unlikely, but it was quite a bad bang, and I had it stitched up and stuff, but all my interests changed, everything changed in six months.
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"I had been obsessed with insects and creepy crawlies, I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up and, suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music, it just seemed a very, very strange thing.
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"And I have a theory that maybe it was something to do with this accident, this whole left-brain right-brain thing. Nobody in my family seemed to notice but I became absolutely obsessed with music and everything changed after that."
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Notes to Editors
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Any use of this press release should incorporate a credit for:
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Desert Island Discs, 大象传媒 Radio 4, Sunday 30 September 2007, 11.15am; repeated Friday 5 October, 9.02am
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Presenter - Kirsty Young; Producer - Leanne Buckle.
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