Kissing A Fool

November 21, 1988

Kissing A Fool, the sixth and final single from the album Faith, was released.

 

Monkey

July 4, 1988

 

The fifth single from FaithMonkey – was released. It became George Michael’s sixth solo single reaching number-one in the US, and the fourth single to do so from the Faith album.

 

Mandela Day

June 11, 1988

 

George performed three cover songs at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert: Village Ghetto Land by Stevie Wonder, If You Were My Woman by Gladys Knight and Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. He deliberately chose to perform songs originated by black artists to make a point about the 25-years of apartheid in South Africa.