September 15 1990 and David Stubbs here imagines an earlier documentary tribute to the Wham!ster .
This satire inspired by the South Bank Show that was actually shown that month on George Michael (clearly coordinated as another prong of his campaign to be taken as a Serious Artist - a Bragg-voiceover-worthy subject like the Smiths and Talking Heads - alongside the singles "Praying for Time" and "Freedom '90", and the album title Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 --- "please please please take me as more than a hunk in bronzer and tight jeans")
Can't also help thinking that Stubbs must have had in the back of his mind the Stud Bros profile of Ridgeley from some weeks earlier - on the occasion of Randy Andy's debut solo album - in the course of which they exalted him as some kind of hero of getting-away-with-it, the ultimate pop star, excelling at the playboy part of the job without getting his fingers grubby and calloused through the workmanlike side of actually producing work. Perhaps a sort of Bez avant la lettre.
Which immediately provoked this harsh corrective from Chris Roberts
