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It’s what George Michael fans have been waiting for...
I can reveal that new material by the late star is to be released “soon”.
He’d been working with producer Naughty Boy before he died aged 53 on Christmas Day
last year.
Naughty Boy, real name Shahid Khan, 32, tells how the new track is “ready” for release.
He says: “It’s a brand new track, it is amazing.
It’s a song that he asked me to work with him on and there’s a real chance this single
will come out.”
Before George died, Shahid had spoken about how he’d love to get the Careless Whisper
singer on his album.
George then reached out to Shahid’s management.
Sadly, on the day he died, Shahid’s mum Zahida, 63, suffered a stroke.
“I felt like my whole life was ending,” he says, speaking at the Nordoff Robbins 2017
O2 Silver Clef Awards.
“It was so awful.
I feel so sad talking about it.
But there is still something amazing to come from it and that is, my mum is doing better
and we have this song.
“I just wish George was here to tell me what he thought of it.
I’m sad I never got to meet him.”
I’m sure he would have Faith in it.
Bizarrely, new George material was leaked by his partner Fadi Fawaz on Twitter within
days of the Wham! singer’s death.
This Kind Of Love was recorded in the 1990s, but the track had never seen the light of
day because of legal red tape.
It had been produced with Elton John in 1991 and is thought to be included on George’s
unreleased album Trojan Horse.
Tweeting a link to the song, Fadi captioned it simply: “My Baby.”