George Michael has left us, but the British pop star and his music will never be forgotten.
A newly restored concert film which captures Michael as the peak of his considerable powers in the late 1980s promises to remind fans of the late WHAM singer, and introduce newcomers to his talents.
George Michael: The Faith Tour, a previously unseen film documenting the singer’s landmark 1988 tour, is due out in cinemas from Nov. 6, through a partnership with George Michael Entertainment, Mercury Studios and Sony Music Entertainment. That film now has an official trailer and a poster, both of which can be seen in full below.
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In the new, 100-second clip, Michael performs snippets of his WHAM-era release “Careless Whisper,” and solo cuts “Father Figure” and “Faith.”
“I guess what ‘Faith’ meant to me was,” he remarks in the clip, “life to me was still going to deliver.”
Announced in March, the film was shot during the 1988 European leg of Michael’s Faith Tour at Paris’ Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, and studies the artist at the crossroads of his career, just two years after WHAM! officially split and filmed soon after release of his solo debut LP Faith.
Longtime collaborators Andy Morahan and David Austin direct, using footage, restored and remastered from a 14-camera shoot on 35mm film across two nights. According to producers, an original short film by Mary McCartney opens the feature, using newly discovered audio and imagery from 1986–1988, the timeframe during which he wrote and performed Faith.
As previously reported, an accompanying live album titled The Faith Tour will be released globally through Sony Music. The 18-track set will feature previously unreleased performances recorded during the world tour and include material spanning Michael’s solo catalogue as well as songs from his earlier work with Wham!.
Michael’s 1987 album Faith is one of the defining pop music releases of its era, earning the Grammy Award for album of the year and yielding four No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: “Faith,” “Father Figure,” “One More Try” and “Monkey.” Michael remains the only British male solo artist to land four Hot 100 chart-toppers from a single album.
The pop superstar died on Christmas Day 2016, at the age of 53, and was posthumously inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2023.
In the same year as his Rock Hall nod, Netflix released the original documentary WHAM!. The story of those groundbreaking concerts in China was retold in the 1986 film Wham! in China: Foreign Skies. A separate documentary, WHAM! 10 Days In China, arrived in July, and premiered last month on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
Universal Pictures Content Group and Bleecker Street’s event cinema division Crosswalk recently announced the acquisition of international and North American rights to George Michael: The Faith Tour.
Watch the official trailer below.
