Oh George
Posted: December 26, 2016 Filed under: LOVE, SONGS, Theme Songs | Tags: 2016 deaths, 2016 sucks, 80s, Careless Whisper, childhood memories, George Michael, George Michael dead at 53, George Michael's hair, love, memories, Music, songs in the key of teenage angst, Wham, Wham Rap, Wham! - Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) Leave a commentIn 1986 I was living in London and I had a flatmate who modelled her hair on George Michael’s fluffy bouffy do. She scored tickets to see Wham at Wembley Stadium that summer. I didn’t speak to her for a while because she went to the gig and I didn’t. It was never about Andrew, it was always about George. I loved George but I was too afraid to admit it. For a while there it wasn’t cool to like George Michael’s music, it wasn’t grungey or dark or rock enough. I’ve never liked cool obscure underground bands that nobody has heard of, with male singers who can’t hold a tune, I’m a huge fan of bright, shiny commercial pop. So George was the shiz.
I love George’s lyrics, I love his melodies and his voice. When I was 14, he wrote songs in the key of teenage angst. George understood me and my worries. Christmas doesn’t begin for me until I hear Last Christmas on the radio.
I can’t believe he’s gone at the age of 53. In the 90s his music kept my heart alive. I hope the dope didn’t kill him.
“Do you enjoy what you do? If not, just stop, don’t stay there and rot.”
Thank you George, I hope you’re blazing a trail with some gorgeous angelic backing vocalists in heaven
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My bloody Valentine
Posted: February 14, 2014 Filed under: LOVE | Tags: 14 February, 80s hairdos, chocolates, chocolates from my imaginary sweethearts, day for the desperate, George Michael, inundated with flowers cards and love letters, Kiss - I was made for loving you, lonely single mothers, looking for love in all the wrong places, love, love lives of the rich and famous, lovelorn, popularity contest, popularity contest I win, sad lonely single mother seeks Mike Brady for blended dysfunctional family, Sexy single mothers, single mother delusions, single mother dreaming, the wisdom and words of George Michael, Valentine's Day, Valentines Day flowers 2 CommentsToday I feel sorry for my postman, he’ll be off on compo for months after breaking his back delivering 1000s of cards, flowers, chocolates, garden gnomes, truffles, pet pigs and poison pen letters to my front door. I’ll give him a big hug and all my love when he gets out of hospital. I’m sure my 157 Facebook boyfriends have sent me their bank account details as well. As I reflect on the sorry state of my love life this Valentine’s Day, AKA VD or Singles Appreciation Day (thank you teenage daughter for that bit of wisdom) I’m thinking of the words of my spiritual guru George Michael,
“It’s so hard to love, there’s so much to hate, when there is no hope to speak of….” I don’t know how George Michael knew about my future love life and unsuccessful internet dating attempts when he wrote that song back in the glory days of the 1980s, but I feel there’s something in those profound words for all of us.
