Hi. Amanda has grievances today. Contrary to popular belief, I
do have a life, and
these things are interferring more than they
should:
1. Error messages. The 3 strikes rule remains in effect. 3 error
messages
on the run and your name will be dropped.
2. Replying to All. Don't. It won't go to all anyway. And people
will write to me
and tell me to remind you of the posting procedure.
3. There is a line to post. It's at a week at the moment. But I am
hoping
to start compiling the list by relevance and importance as
of next week. Please don't send hostile mail bitching at me.
4.
Irrelevant posts: What are these? No George content whatsoever.
Wait, correct that. NO TIE TO GEORGE whatsoever. You can post
about
Andrew--I encourage it--and any session musician. Use good
judgement is all I'm saying. Tie it to the world of Yog! I don't care
what
I read, but there is a feeling that we are deviating too much
from George.
5. Innapropriate posts: Yes, I am starting to
reject posts. Why?
Personal attacks. You will be informed if a post has been rejected and
told to forward it to the person in
question directly. I respect your
opinions, but I will not allow you to flog people publicly. People's e
mail addresses are at
the top of their posts.
6. NO! WALTZ AWAY DREAMING IS NOT GOING TO BE
RELEASED IN THE US NOR IS GEORGE ANNOUNCING TOUR
DATES.
Read your mail once in a while and stop asking me
questions I have answered 50 times.
AND AWAY WE GO...
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cummings-at-mailbox.acusd.edu
(Leeanna Cummings) writes:
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Hello
everyone!
I just wanted to let everyone know that the transcript of the CapitalFM
interview from April 27, 1997 is up on a
web site.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/5095/
Click on Newsletter and then click on Bulletin. I think it is
worth
checking out. I found out from the editor it will only be on for 2-3
weeks from now (April 30).
Thanks Amanda for
all you hard work!
Leeanna
cummings-at-acusd.edu
PS - If anyone just wants to chat, email me.
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GRIMMMY-at-aol.com
writes:
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Amanda , who is Andros ?
(George's cousin. The two are very close and
essentially grew up
as brothers, as did their fathers. Andros is now Andreas,
president of Ęgean. But if you believe the
ignorant press, the
two have been living as gay lovers for years... Trust me, they're
just cousins, 2nd or 3rd I think. AG)
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MADRAGIL-at-aol.com
(Tim) writes:
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By the way - have you noticed at the end of the remix (not
sure
which one) for Spinning the Wheel during the instrumental -
"Shuffle to the beat, Gonna take a cut, There's money in
your
feet, gimme what you got" would fit in perfectly...wonder if this
was just an accident? ;-)
Tim
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MBurke-at-esd.ihs.dhhs.gov
(Mark Burke) writes:
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Hi Amanda -
I'd like to be a
member of your George Michael Mailing List.
I've been a fan of George and Wham! for at least 12 years, and
I love to collect
their stuff: records, CD's, photos, 12" singles,
videos, whatever... My favorite GM song is "Freedom", and I
love
the video for "FastLove". I'm also a fan of Bananarama,
Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Morrissey, and Bjork.
Thanks,
Mark
(from Dallas)
(Welcome to a fellow George/Madonna/Nana/PSB fan! Great taste in
music Mark. AG)
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USCAlumna-at-aol.com
writes:
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When is he gonna tour again?
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faith-at-fastlink.com.au
(Devilish) writes:
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id like to announce to other readers,an online
Birthday party i
am arranging for George Michael's birthday on the 25 June.
for details check my homepage at
http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/Towers/1774
or
by email
Devilish Angel
faith-at-fastlink.com.au
Hope to see everyone there,by the way im sending aegean an
invite :)
Who know's maybe GM will show under another name,
regardless it should be fun.
Luv Devilish Angel
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partha-at-wipsys.soft.net
(M C Parthasarathy) writes:
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HI everybody,
Does
anyone know good sites for downloading George
Michael videos?
(I know MTV and VH1's AOL sections have vids available,
which
I presume would be on the WWW sites as well. AG)
Regards
Partha
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rmr8m-at-virginia.edu
(Rita Reid) writes:
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I recently subscribed to Introspective - a Pet
Shop Boys
discussion list and came across a very interesting post from
a PSB fan...
>Subject: Re: POLL: 5 FAVE
ALBUMS OF LAST YEAR
> >1. Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five
>2. Ben Folds Five Whatever and ever, amen
>3. Gavin
Friday Shag Tobacco
>4. Electronic Raise the Pressure
>5. George Michael Older
> >And... 6. PSB Bilingual (It's
not soooooo fabulous, sadly,
> after all...)
> >Yes, I know, some of the discs aren't 96/97, but they
>
appeared in my hands during this time, so they are brand
> new for me, and they haven't stopped playing in my cd
> since
day one...
It was nice to know that a George Michael cd beat out the Pets
AND it was publicly posted!!!
(I just very
recently got a copy of Bilingual, thanks again Jason,
and while I agree it's great, it's not their best. But I did notice
an
abundance of cross over in terms of production staff. I think
we know know why George sits by the engineering pit when he
see
the PSB, he wants to talk to his buddy Chris Porter, the
infamous Forthrigt. Also, I noticed Katie is still working with
them,
and so is Ruby from the early Wham! days. AG)
Rita
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oliver-at-centralperk.com (Oliver)
writes:
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(A cross post from the Madonna list. AG)
Zheng Wang
wrote:
> 4. George Michael and Madonna: It might be true that they
> used to like each other, but I have an intuitive
feeling that has
> changed. I don't have any evidence, it's just they both have
> changed a lot since 1985...
(Both
George and Madonna have publicly stated they hate it
when friendships are based purely on both being celebs. I
too have heard
the rumour of the night at the T Room, when
George and Madonna are alleged to have spent the night
exchanging dirty looks in
the VIP room, and we all know how
valid a source LA club kids are too don't we? AG)
In 1989, Madonna presented GM with the
MTV Video Vanguard
Award. They said some nice things about each other, although
Madonna did kid around and said that 'she'd
rather be getting
the award than presenting it.' But are we agreed that
Madonna WOULD NOT HAVE presented that award if her
liking
for GM has waned?
(They ended up out a dinner with Warren Beatty that night
also. But to offer some water to the fire,
Madonna caught
a couple dates on the Faith tour, and George was spotted
at Madonna's 1990 Blond Ambition shows at Wembley,
with
Bananarama, because as Keren put it, "He had better
seats." AG)
Well that was 1989. But recently I posted this
too, and it
was a comment made in 1994:
I am surprised that in this discussion nobody has mentioned
that in a magazine
interview in 1994 (I think NME did the
interview, I forget), the interviewer gave Madonna names of
artists and she was asked
to comment on every one of them,
and when GM's name came up, Madonna gave this single
statement: "An incredible
songwriter!"
I will try to ask from the George Michael mailing list for recent
comments GM may have made about
Madonna.
(I have one, and I already passed it on to Jim. AG)
In any case, I should hope that your intuition fails you
this time.
Listening and WANTING to be listened to,
Oliver
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Flannny-at-aol.com writes:
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Well,
this is my first e-mail to Yogmael so I beg all of you, please
be patient with me. I have a question about GM that probably
goes
back five or so years ago. If this has already been
addressed in previous issues of Yogmael, I apologize, but I have
only been
a subscriber since #142. Anyway, my question
concerns a project GM was supposedly working on called
Trojan Souls prior to his
well publicized dispute with Sony. If
memory serves me correctly, this was to be an album of songs
that he wrote and produced
but with guest singers actually doing
all the singing. I seem to remember that both Annie Lennox and
K.D. Lang had already
signed up for it? Does anyone know
anything? Did his dispute with Sony end up killing the project?
Is it possible I just read
some misinformation. I think I read about
it in the free magazine Tower Records gives out with any
purchase. I would love any
information on this just so I could
close the book one way or another in my mind.
(This was indeed the project that was set
to establish George
as the gifted writer/producer he is. I know that Elton, Aretha
and Bryan Ferry have also been said to have
contributed, if
memory serves Bowie's name came up too. Sony didn't
manage to kill it though. When the judgement came down,
the
project was passed to Andros' hands set to be released
on what was then his label Hardback. It's now set for release
from
Aegean. Check the site
details. Last I heard, there was not yet a release date. AG)
Thanks,
Flannny-at-aol.com
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tears-record-at-infonie.fr
(Tears Record) writes:
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Hello to all !
Don't
hesitate to visit the french web site about George Michael:
http://www.infonie.com/public_html/tears-record/george-michael
-->
Multimedia support ('Star People' in real audio is available (5
versions))
--> Updated each week
--> English version
will come soon
--> News, gallery, mutlimedia, discography etc...
--> Beta test will end in May the 1st
Help me if
you want !
See you soon !
Olivier
--
Please don't forget to visit my web sites :
http://tears-record.isabel.com/tears-for-fears
[FRENCH
WEB SITE about TEARS FOR FEARS]
http://www.infonie.com/public_html/tears-record/hartley
[FRENCH WEB SITE about THE
AUSTRALIAN SHOW:
HEARTBREAK HIGH]
My email : tears-record-at-infonie.fr
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splkzoo-at-net-link.net
(Shawn Light) writes:
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I just wanted to say that George's look
on the VH1 Honours fit
in perfectly with the song. Very 70's in my opinion. Especially
the Sunglasses and beard.
Also,
is it just me or have other celebs/artists started popping
up sporting a beard just like George's (Ala JTAC & FastLove
Vids)?
Trent Reznor, Garth Brooks have. Anyone else?
George always seems to be the trendsetter. After all he had
the caesar cut
before it was "in".
Shawn
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cassu-at-inetworld.net (Cass) writes:
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Hi
everyone !
Just thought that ya'll might get a giggle out of this... It's
11:02pm (Pacific time) and I'm JUST NOW cleaning
off my
desk to go home for the evening! I've put in WAY too many
hours today and am existing on high-fructose corn syrup and
stress...Anyway,
here's the amusing part... I was thinking to
myself "Hey, Cass, maybe you ought to pack it in for the
night?" ,
well, the 6 Cd changer is on "random" and track 10
from the FAITH cd came on... HARD DAY ! I'm taking it as a
sign
of some sort and getting the hell out of here... Hope
everyone had a better day than me! As Scarlett O'Hara
would say
"Tomorrow is another day."
Cass :}
P.S. For anyone (other than Amanda, 'cos she's sick of
hearing...)
"Does anyone have an idea as to when "Waltz
Away Dreaming" will be available ?" (my friends keep asking
me
and don't believe that I don't know. Plz e-me w/info...
THANKS!)
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modderdv-at-river.it.gvsu.edu
(David Modderman) writes:
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I would like to
comment on some of the past archives if I may.
George in recent interviews has mentioned that he smokes pot,
and cigarettes.
Now at first this really bothered me, it doesn't
really anymore. George is an individual and his own person, he
makes mistakes
just like everyone else. But we just don't know
enough about George to really love him or hate him as a person.
Yes, I love
his music and think he is the best singer, songwriter,
and performer in the business. I don't think that George is exactly
what
i would like him to be as a person. yet being on the outside
looking in How can I or anyone judge him. Only God is the one
who
can do that. Again we can love him as a singer and performer,
but as a person we reallyjust don't know enough about him
personally
to answer this question. I mean he comes off very nice,
private, and caring person in his interviews. It of course always
brought
now with just the mention of George Michael, is his sexuality.
I will say this just once, that his strictly his business, if he
really
wanted us to know, he would have told us. Someones sexual
preference is such a small part of a persons life. it should
not even
be brought up, I myself am curious, but lets just concentrate on his
music, and not his lifestyle.
Listen Without
Prejudice
Thanks D.M.
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To Wrap it Up:
"Hmmm..."
(Taken from -- Freedom
90's B side -- Fantasy)