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Faith (George Michael song)
"Faith" is a song by English singer and songwriter George Michael. Written and produced by Michael, it was released via Columbia Records as the second single from his 1987 debut solo album of the same name. It held the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for four weeks and, according to Billboard magazine, was the number-one single of the year in the United States in 1988. The song also reached number one in Australia and Canada and number two on the UK Singles Chart. In 2001, it placed at number 322 on the Songs of the Century list.
As with the rest of the album, the track was written, arranged, and produced by Michael. It is claimed that the idea came from publisher Dick Leahy's suggestion that Michael write a rock and roll pastiche. The song began in May 1987 at Puk Studios in Gjerlev, Denmark, with Michael doing a two-bar LinnDrum loop and Hugh Burns playing the Bo Diddley-style rhythm guitar part on a metal-bodied acoustic guitar. Deon Estus recorded the bass, while the cathedral organ part was recorded with a Yamaha DX7 (although some sources state it is from a Roland D-50).
As with many of his songs, Michael would usually write lyrics in front of the mic, and build the lead vocal by singing a line, each time he had Chris Porter rewind the tape so he could drop in at certain points to create the right emotional effect. For this song, George wanted the vocals to be "dry and in-your-face", like on Prince's songs at the time, which Porter noted "had a very tight delay on the vocals, making him sound very growly but dry and aggressive". They recreated the effect with an AMS digital delay.
When Michael decided to release "Faith" as a single, it was extended with a guitar solo. He said: "Everyone said it's great, it's great but it's too short, you know. And everyone kept saying that "I love 'Faith', I love 'Faith'". So I thought, well maybe I should put it out as a single when it came to that. I said, I think a two-minute long single is a bit, you know... so I went in and extended it. But it was originally never intended as a single. It was just gonna be a small track on the album, a really short track."
Work on the song resumed on 1 September 1987, when a new bridge and a 1950s-inspired guitar solo by Burns—played on a Giffin custom Stratocaster—were added at Sarm West Studio 2 in London. According to Porter, the solo was constructed bar-by-bar over a period of 4 hours in a similar fashion to recording George's vocals.
The song incorporates the Bo Diddley beat, a classic rock and roll rhythm. It begins with a church organ played by Chris Cameron, referencing Wham!'s song "Freedom", followed by guitar strumming, finger clicking, hand-claps, tambourine and hi-hat.
The official music video for the song was directed by Andy Morahan. It features Michael, with noticeable stubble on his face, wearing a black leather jacket with 'Rockers Revenge' and BSA logo, Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses and a pair of Levi's blue jeans with cowboy boots, playing a guitar near a classic-design Wurlitzer jukebox, and a woman's bare legs. Writers Bob Batchelor and Scott Stoddart say the music video positions him as a "masculine sex object", breaking him up into individual body parts such as "stubbled" [sic] chin and butt.
The music video also features part of another song by Michael. The video starts by playing "I Want Your Sex", and then is interrupted by the jukebox starting into "Faith".
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Faith (George Michael song)
"Faith" is a song by English singer and songwriter George Michael. Written and produced by Michael, it was released via Columbia Records as the second single from his 1987 debut solo album of the same name. It held the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for four weeks and, according to Billboard magazine, was the number-one single of the year in the United States in 1988. The song also reached number one in Australia and Canada and number two on the UK Singles Chart. In 2001, it placed at number 322 on the Songs of the Century list.
As with the rest of the album, the track was written, arranged, and produced by Michael. It is claimed that the idea came from publisher Dick Leahy's suggestion that Michael write a rock and roll pastiche. The song began in May 1987 at Puk Studios in Gjerlev, Denmark, with Michael doing a two-bar LinnDrum loop and Hugh Burns playing the Bo Diddley-style rhythm guitar part on a metal-bodied acoustic guitar. Deon Estus recorded the bass, while the cathedral organ part was recorded with a Yamaha DX7 (although some sources state it is from a Roland D-50).
As with many of his songs, Michael would usually write lyrics in front of the mic, and build the lead vocal by singing a line, each time he had Chris Porter rewind the tape so he could drop in at certain points to create the right emotional effect. For this song, George wanted the vocals to be "dry and in-your-face", like on Prince's songs at the time, which Porter noted "had a very tight delay on the vocals, making him sound very growly but dry and aggressive". They recreated the effect with an AMS digital delay.
When Michael decided to release "Faith" as a single, it was extended with a guitar solo. He said: "Everyone said it's great, it's great but it's too short, you know. And everyone kept saying that "I love 'Faith', I love 'Faith'". So I thought, well maybe I should put it out as a single when it came to that. I said, I think a two-minute long single is a bit, you know... so I went in and extended it. But it was originally never intended as a single. It was just gonna be a small track on the album, a really short track."
Work on the song resumed on 1 September 1987, when a new bridge and a 1950s-inspired guitar solo by Burns—played on a Giffin custom Stratocaster—were added at Sarm West Studio 2 in London. According to Porter, the solo was constructed bar-by-bar over a period of 4 hours in a similar fashion to recording George's vocals.
The song incorporates the Bo Diddley beat, a classic rock and roll rhythm. It begins with a church organ played by Chris Cameron, referencing Wham!'s song "Freedom", followed by guitar strumming, finger clicking, hand-claps, tambourine and hi-hat.
The official music video for the song was directed by Andy Morahan. It features Michael, with noticeable stubble on his face, wearing a black leather jacket with 'Rockers Revenge' and BSA logo, Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses and a pair of Levi's blue jeans with cowboy boots, playing a guitar near a classic-design Wurlitzer jukebox, and a woman's bare legs. Writers Bob Batchelor and Scott Stoddart say the music video positions him as a "masculine sex object", breaking him up into individual body parts such as "stubbled" [sic] chin and butt.
The music video also features part of another song by Michael. The video starts by playing "I Want Your Sex", and then is interrupted by the jukebox starting into "Faith".