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'I knew he had that in him,' Taylor told Classic Rock. Taylor called it 'a thrill to work with George Michael,' though he wasn't surprised by how fluidly the former Wham frontman stepped into Mercury's hard-to-fill shoes.

He thought he was on Concorde or something.'

When he heard the power he had behind him in rehearsal, he couldn’t believe it. 'George wasn't really used to working with a live band. 'I remember hearing the rumors, but it wouldn't have suited us,' Roger Taylor later told Classic Rock. Michael's performance inevitably led to thoughts of a more permanent role in Queen. He welcomed Lisa Stansfield for a tear-jerking collaboration on 'These Are the Days of Our Lives.' But “Somebody to Love” – which was paired with 'These Are the Days of Our Lives' for 1993's Five Live, a benefit EP for the Mercury Phoenix Trust – brought the house down. With the three remaining Queen members beside him, Michael launching into a stomping take on “39” fit for an Irish pub session. Watch George Michael Perform 'Somebody to Love' With Queen Highlights included Annie Lennox and David Bowie performing 'Under Pressure,' and Queen teaming with Robert Plant for 'Innuendo.' But Michael’s work that evening in London was stunning. Mercury died six months before this tribute concert, which co-starred Metallica, Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses, Elton John and other A-list artists. I was so overwhelmed by singing the songs of this man I had worshiped as a child, who had passed away in the same manner my first living partner was going to experience.” “I went out there knowing I had to honor Freddie Mercury and I had to pray for Anselmo,” Michael said in the film, which was produced before he passed away in 2016. That left Michael to take the stage while enduring a very personal pain, even as he honored another of the disease's victims.

'The performance most well known in my career,' Michael said in the documentary Freedom, 'was sung to my lover who was dying.'Īnselmo Feleppa had just been diagnosed with AIDS, but Michael wasn’t publicly out – so his relationship with Feleppa was a secret.

George michael somebody tell me why i work so hard