Faith

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I have the cassette (that's music recorded on a tape, for the youngsters) somewhere and have not heard the full album for probably about 15-20 years. A remastered edition of Faith was released on 31 January 2011 in the UK and on 1 February 2011 in the US. The first solo album from George Michael with some iconic tracks [Father Figure} which are, to my mind timeless. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. After the success of Make It Big, Michael had grown weary of continuing the group, and expressed to Ridgeley the desire that they should split up.

Transalation: The Faith album ended up selling more than 25 million copies, in Brazil alone more than 280 thousand people bought it.

Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. Coleman also claimed that Faith is "a concept album of sorts" incorporating "disco groove [varying] from urban thump to slow tropical heat wave", praising it for being "grounded in a passion and personal commitment".

During 1987 and 1988, Faith produced a string of hit singles for Michael, including six top-five Billboard Hot 100 hits, four of which (" Faith", " Father Figure", " One More Try", and " Monkey") reached number one, making him the only British male solo artist to have four number one hits from one album on the Billboard Hot 100. I’d gone from, a couple of years before, being perfectly happy with being on Top of the Pops, to thinking, 'I can do what Michael Jackson can do. In a Billboard review, Faith was considered to have "cemented [Michael] as an MTV icon and a global superstar" and shaping the sound of "late-'80s pop as much as any LP of its time. Mark Coleman of Rolling Stone praised Michael for emerging as "one of pop music’s leading artisans, a painstaking craftsman who combines a graceful knack for vocal hooks with an uncanny ability to ransack the past for musical ideas and still sound fresh" and dubbed Michael the " Elton John of the 1980s".Michael embarked on a world tour to promote the album in February 1988, opening at Tokyo's Budokan arena, before going on to dates in Australia, Europe and North America. A video compilation of the same name was released by CMV Enterprises on August 9, 1988, to promote the album.

However, it wasn't until February 1987—after six months of little activity—that recording had properly started, [10] this time at the PUK Studios facility, located near Aarhus, Denmark. The recording sessions at PUK, however, ended in late May shortly after the recording of the title track, " Faith", owing to Michael beginning to suffer from a bout of cabin fever, according to engineer Chris Porter. Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description).Michael won numerous music awards, including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three American Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, and four MTV Video Music Awards.