Rock In Rio

January 25, 1991

After opening with two nights at the Genting Arena in Birmingham George flew to Brazil to perform two dates at the Rock in Rio festival at the Maracanã Stadium. He played in front of a crowd of 170,000 packed into one of the world’s largest football stadiums and during the second concert he was joined on stage by Andrew Ridgeley. It was the last time that Wham! performed together on stage.

Cover To Cover Tour

January 15, 1991

 

Cover to Cover – the second solo concert tour by George Michael – started in Birmingham. The tour was not a proper promotion for Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 it was more about George singing covers of his favourite songs.

Freedom ’90

October 30, 1990

 

Freedom! ’90 was released as the second single from the album in the United States and Australia and peaked at No.8 on the United States Billboard Hot 100. George did not appeared in the video for the song that was inspired by Peter Lindbergh’s now-iconic portrait of Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford for the January 1990 cover of the British edition of Vogue. He asked the five models to appear in the video directed by David Fincher. After appearing in the video, the quintet became supermodels, referred to only by their first names.