GEORGE MICHAEL - Twenty Five Review

While the awards, accolades and warm sense of achievement are all nice, the best thing about having a pop career that's survived a quarter of a century is the endless opportunities to repackage your back catalogue. And so it is that, to celebrate his 25th year as an international icon, George Michael has released yet another greatest hits. Having already collected, and recollected, together the hits of Wham! with "The Final" and "The Best Of", and then his own output with 1998's "Ladies And Gentlemen", it perhaps makes perfect sense to here combine them for the occasion....full text The forty plus tracks chosen to chronicle the quarter-century anniversary of George Michael's explosion onto the music scene includes solo material, duets and Wham! classics tracing a career that may not always have run smoothly but has been remarkably consistent....full text GEORGE Michael celebrates 25 years in the industry with the release of greatest hits compilation Twenty Five, a two or three-CD package that takes in everything from Wham! hits to the Faith era and his most recent material (depending on how long you want to spend with him).

No matter what you might think of him in terms of his media depiction, George Michael remains one of the most successful and prolific artists of our generation, and an iconic music industry figure since the 1980s....full text