George Michael’s 10 best b-sides, albums tracks and hidden gems

(Images: University of Houston Digital Library/Columbia/Epic) ‘To Be Forgiven’ (album track)

‘To Be Forgiven’ offers some of George Michael’s most reflective and pensive writing. A song about regret and wishing for a simpler life, it showcases the singer’s range, which shines amid a backdrop of acoustic guitar and fascinating vocal arrangements that offer layer after layer of his velvety tones. “Save me”, he pleads, and it is hard not to be drawn into the track and drown in it like a still pool on a summer’s day in the repeated ripples of “I’m going down”.

‘This Is Not Real Love’ feat. Mutya Buena (duet)

Who knew that when the pop king of the 80s duetted with one of the pop princesses of the 00s, they would produce musical magic?

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