Extended Cut: George Michael with Marcus McCann, Part 1
Added 2024-04-17 00:48:29 +0000 UTCHe turned a bright spark into a flame.
(Part 1 of 2!)
Here for your listening pleasure is a Carolyn's Cut of today's episode. You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.
Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicide around minute 13.
Comments
I'm late to the party but why does he look exactly like Misty on Yellowjackets
Amelia Fetherolf
2024-11-24 06:22:49 +0000 UTCHuh, I never heard that before!
Elizabeth Gunn
2024-06-13 18:23:42 +0000 UTCJust wanted to note the Vanderpump Rules crossover with James Kennedy (George Michaels godson) and his renaming of his dog from Graham to Hippie!
Sumita Mukund
2024-06-11 23:30:20 +0000 UTCYall gotta stop making me cry at the gym!!!!
Kai Haskins
2024-05-17 22:43:26 +0000 UTCThis started with me excited about George Michael and ended with me bawling my eyes out. Marcus, what you said about our molecules dispersing and Freddy's being in George, David, Elton, + Liza was so, so beautiful it broke my heart.
fig leaf
2024-05-03 01:50:03 +0000 UTCSharing a link to Liza's performance at the Freddie Mercury tribute Concert for Life. I love the introduction (has stayed with me all these years) and what she says at the end. Keep watching all the way to the end. Lovely sendoff by Roger Taylor. And then you see Freddie. Magnificent. Charles could NEVER. https://youtu.be/zSxKIVm33mE?si=Oy4a59-7kY2DaOe0
Norma
2024-05-03 00:13:59 +0000 UTCThank you so much for this! My mom passed last summer and George was everything to her. She was allowed to listen to popular music when she was a kid so she kind of had her teen years in the early 80’s while I was a kid. His music made her so happy and we liked it too so that was helpful! There was a running joke that whenever my mom and I were out somewhere we would hear a George Michael song and I was usually the one to spot it, she trained me well in that aspect 😂 Thank you for stories and presentation of them, you are so kind and it always feels like we’re hearing about a friend rather than some lofty idol kept at arms length. My mom would have loved to hear this one for sure. ❤️
Ewan Elspeth Hunnicutt
2024-04-27 04:25:17 +0000 UTCThis podcast as a whole is incredible at making me deeply care for people who I haven’t known much about before. This part 1 is so moving. What a lovely conversation between Marcus and Sarah Marshall. Thank you thank you.
Meghan Womack
2024-04-25 18:11:07 +0000 UTCLiza Minnelli!
Jessica
2024-04-24 11:54:50 +0000 UTCListen Without Prejudice Vol 1. is one of my favorite albums of all time, and even though I would have loved to have Vol 2, I'm glad that George used the songs for good things. Talking about Freddie Mercury living on in his songs... this reminds me of the video of an enormous crowd waiting for an outdoor Green Day concert singing along with "Bohemian Rhapsody", and it just gave me chills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnBNuqqz5g
Kris Panchyk
2024-04-24 01:14:59 +0000 UTCI shared YWA with my dad a couple of years ago, and he will occasionally tell me about episodes he listens to during long work commutes. It's been a nice way to have a connection with someone I sometimes feel strained from. My dad loves George Michael and his music (in many ways, I think he helped my dad to be more understanding of gay people and his gay kid as a result.) I made sure to inform him about this episode! I'm excited to learn more about a man my dad cares about through people that we both care about, and to talk about it together :)
Meryl Chills
2024-04-23 14:48:17 +0000 UTCThe outro music always triggers a deep emotional response in me and hearing it after your discussion about the Freddie Mercury tribute concert and George visiting Anselmo's resting place finally brought me to tears.
Anjali
2024-04-23 00:25:53 +0000 UTCI cannot believe a 17 yr old came up with "guilty feet have got no rhythm"
Megen porter
2024-04-22 21:54:36 +0000 UTCSo bloody excited for this, about 4 years ago we bought a car that only had a tape deck. I bought WHAM fantastic on casette from a flea market and have been obsessed ever since💖. May this podcast have the wide reaching cultural impact we need to finally get a great George Michael biopic 🙏
Georgia May
2024-04-21 23:09:39 +0000 UTCI feel compelled to say that in the UK/Australia a badmington "birdie" is called a Shuttlecock. So the joke's even more on the nose! 😅
Juliette
2024-04-20 05:48:48 +0000 UTCI immediately had to pause to watch Liza with Queen. Hearing “we are the champions” in the context of the AIDS pandemic is one of the most devastating performances I’ve ever seen. I found myself mourning for the millions of lives lost. I am not a person who cries easily or frequently, but that performance is a punch in the gut.
Sarah Gawn
2024-04-20 05:03:17 +0000 UTCI sang Careless Whispers to get through my pap smear today. That is all.
Hilde Festerling
2024-04-20 00:04:40 +0000 UTCYou guys had me crying with your beautiful metaphor about Freddie mercury’s voice
Hali Traina
2024-04-19 23:14:50 +0000 UTCRe: respecting teen girl feelings and listening to them, and the comment that teen girls watch Euphoria. I was recently reading a review in the Guardian of the show Heartstopper. (Which is so... Ted Lasso but queer teen romance.) The writer was admitting the show is good but was questioning/disparaging its sweetness, saying it's not like Euphoria or whatever, which is dark and therefore somehow relevant or modern or ?? . (Never mind it deals with serious themes like assault and such.) ANYWAY. I know it's a teen thing for all teens. But the youth I know who love it are girls, and they love. it. I was thinking a lot about how 1) kids can like Euphoria AND Heartstopper. 2) Seeing yourself in stories that deal with both the hard stuff AND the sweetness of life is so important. Teen girl taste is powerful and meaningful and deserves to be taken seriously. I'm so glad George Michael is getting the YWA treatment in this regard. Anselmo 💕💕💕
kathleen costello
2024-04-19 15:51:12 +0000 UTCAt the 53 min mark, talking about polyamorous movies: there's a pre-code movie by Ernst Lubitsch called "Design for Living" (1933) which is a lighthearted comedy about the relationship between two guys and their girlfriend. May be first on-screen poly relationship? I enjoy it a lot.
Kathryn Charlotte
2024-04-19 15:46:26 +0000 UTCI don't know if this is the case with George, but my understanding is that so-called "diva riders" are ways for performers to check that their contracts have been read. If you're setting up pyrotechnics and heavy speakers and stuff, you want to make sure that the venue is genuinely prepared for it, and walking into your dressing room and NOT finding blue-and-white palm trees (or brown M&Ms) is a fast way to find out.
Anna Perry
2024-04-18 23:20:23 +0000 UTCanxiously awaiting part 2 and praying for an epilogue regarding his nephew and godson James Kennedy of bravo’s Vanderpump Rules and his ex-fiancé’s feral labradoodle he renamed to Hippie after she had to give him up during an inpatient stay at a trauma center. a very rich text indeed.
marya
2024-04-18 16:18:25 +0000 UTCIt's interesting that Marcus mentions George making disparaging comments about Andrew RE his contributions to WHAM. Obviously this could be a retcon, but Andrew himself has said that it was a conscious decision for George to take over the songwriting because he was better at it!
Tiffanie G
2024-04-18 16:06:13 +0000 UTCCreed has a cover of careless whisper everyone should check out
Ellen James
2024-04-18 11:06:34 +0000 UTCIt made me chuckle when you brought up the wham rap, a friend of mine did a genuinely lovely little bit of writing on it from a class and gender perspective here https://sslh.org.uk/2023/12/22/in-tune-wham-rap-enjoy-what-you-do/
callmemug
2024-04-18 09:19:10 +0000 UTCWeeping and laughing at this episode. Cannot wait for part two!!
Tyler Williams
2024-04-18 03:23:25 +0000 UTCI’ve honestly grown to like it in the last couple of years. I’m 29 so wasn’t around, my Mam is 46 so she was a kid and they all loved it on account of being kids but then laughed at it looking back
Megan Ward
2024-04-18 01:24:59 +0000 UTCQuestion: is the character in Arrested Development a reference to George Michael?
Rez Watson
2024-04-17 22:17:54 +0000 UTCI knew absolutely nothing about George Michael beyond the Faith music video and his arrest, so this episode was all new info for me! Very fun, can’t wait for part 2!
MollyR
2024-04-17 21:46:03 +0000 UTCKnew absolutely nothing about George Michael, now I’m sitting in a coffee shop weeping 🥲 thanks for the episode, absolutely great!!
AniBoBoni
2024-04-17 21:22:09 +0000 UTCI would have been a pilot, and also Linda Ronstadt
Laura Augustine
2024-04-17 20:43:53 +0000 UTCLoved this so much! Thank you
Sara Colognesi
2024-04-17 20:24:28 +0000 UTCIf anyone wants to see a great poly romance movie— check out First Blush on prime!♥️♥️♥️
Mads
2024-04-17 20:16:16 +0000 UTCI would love to know what everyone would have been if they became what they wanted to be at age 5. Dolly Parton: Shark Scientist here!
Liz aka Cosbrarian
2024-04-17 19:02:15 +0000 UTCThe video of he and Mary J covering Stevie Wonder's "Always" is two of the sexiest people being real sexy (HER HAT)
Juliane Schneider
2024-04-17 17:37:51 +0000 UTCteenage girls are tone poems!
bailey sperling
2024-04-17 17:01:19 +0000 UTCHaven’t finished listening yet, but my sister and I were massive Wham/George Michael fans from the 80s - even loved Young Guns and Wham Rap! On a white people who shouldn’t be rapping note: I would like to submit a ‘remake’ of Rapture from last year via The Boys: https://youtu.be/li2WDMgHxD0?si=4RpTT0VnJjUIlcJq
YazH
2024-04-17 15:33:56 +0000 UTCwhy is no one gonna talk about Ted Breakfast.
Erin Healey
2024-04-17 15:24:17 +0000 UTCWhere drinks are frrreeeeee??
Ijeoma (pajamagirl) O.
2024-04-17 15:09:29 +0000 UTCProud to be a Whamerican
Sarah Fentem
2024-04-17 15:05:49 +0000 UTCSarah doesn't know Club Tropicana 😱😱😱
Tom Padget
2024-04-17 14:46:57 +0000 UTCDavid Fincher directed Freedom 90?! I should have known bc of how …blue it was
Sarah Fentem
2024-04-17 14:45:17 +0000 UTCI’m crying on the bloody bus at the Freddie mercury concert bit
Jenni Stewart
2024-04-17 14:42:28 +0000 UTCMy 97 year old grandfather just got married to a gal he met at a seniors dance. Dance is still where it’s at!
Spencer
2024-04-17 14:38:36 +0000 UTCAs a firmly Gen ex’r, wham rap was on mtv and on moderate rotation. It wasn’t that bad, it was a British guy talking over a dance beat. Now I have a brain bug. “They promised you a good job… no way”
Brett Hulst
2024-04-17 13:53:08 +0000 UTCFound a bunch of pictures of Yog in yellow after looking for that butter yellow suit - I think yellow is his power colour 😍
Zoey Charlemagne
2024-04-17 11:34:08 +0000 UTCOmg Sarah please listen to Club Tropicana 🥹
Holly D
2024-04-17 06:53:06 +0000 UTCThat Ezra Pound comment 😙👌
Nicole F.
2024-04-17 05:34:32 +0000 UTCOMG - I have been wishing out loud to my bf for YEARS that YWA would do a George Michael episode 🥹 Ty ty ty ty ty ty! ✨✨✨✨
Janine blair
2024-04-17 03:02:38 +0000 UTC
