George Michael's Life and Times

Michael accused Sony, which had acquired his contract when it bought CBS Records in 1987, of not promoting him properly. In an eventual court case, Michael claimed the conglomerate was treating him like, quote, a piece of software. This will go down as one of the smartest and most far-sighted complaints by an artist in music business history - more than a decade before iTunes and Spotify were invented. On the follow-up, the joyous autobiographical dance track Freedom 90, George did what Elton had just done on the cover of Reg Strikes Back. He said goodbye to the trappings of fame, leaving the music video to a posse of supermodels, and asking director David Finc