George Michael: Portrait of an Artist

00:00:21 I felt the cry in his voice.

00:04:18 I actually thought Andrew was the key figure

00:07:45 I must have been one of the only 12-year-old boys there.

00:11:27 What things make me angry? - Angry.

00:14:54 Patty LaBelle, Little Richard, the Manhattans,

00:20:15 has to have a public image, and it has

00:24:00 - George Michael! - George Michael! - George... Michael!

00:28:04 The music usually came first. Erm,

00:32:11 # Is that I don't belong to you

00:36:22 and of course, in that high expectation and traditional way,

00:41:16 George reacted to Anselmo's death with anger.

00:44:59 to being grossly excessively overpaid.

00:49:07 with that subject matter, at that time,

00:53:17 Well, I suppose that's the whole point, isn't it?

00:56:25 It was mocking his tormentors, it was ridiculing them,

01:00:24 It was a four-year period of just making track after track.

01:03:46 # People, did you see... #

01:07:25 or entertain himself by putting himself into situations where

01:11:14 And he was, you know, saying how people would respond -

01:14:56 # Sense your inspiration... #

01:18:48 But when he did decide to do interviews,

01:23:01 What is so fantastic in your life that you can actually, you know,

01:28:01 you know, became more depressed.

01:31:58 "for me to do, but believe me, he really had to go."