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Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

Studio album by

George Michael

Released 3 September 1990

Recorded December 1988 – July 1990

Studio Sarm West and Metropolis in London

 Pop
Genre  R&B
 rock[1]

Length 48:13

Label Columbia, Epic Records (UK)

Producer George Michael

George Michael chronology

Faith Listen Without Prejudice Vol. Five Live

(1987) 1 (1993)
(1990)

Alternative cover
Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged cover

Singles from Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

1. "Praying for Time"

Released: 13 August 1990
2. "Waiting for That Day"
Released: 15 October 1990
3. "Freedom! '90"
Released: 30 October 1990
4. "Heal the Pain"
Released: 4 February 1991
5. "Cowboys and Angels"
Released: 18 March 1991
6. "Soul Free"
Released: July 1991

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 is the second solo studio album by the English
singer-songwriter George Michael, released on 3 September 1990 by Columbia
Records (Epic Records in the UK). The album was Michael's final album of all-new
material on Columbia until 2004's Patience. Listen Without Prejudice was a stark
departure from Michael's previous album, 1987's Faith, with largely acoustic
instrumentation and a sombre intensity in many of the lyrics and melodies. While the
album topped the UK Albums Chart, disappointing sales in the United States led to
Michael's legal battles against Sony Music, in which he accused the corporation of not
fully supporting him as an artist.[2]

Listen Without Prejudice was reissued across a number of formats on 20 October

2017 and again topped the UK Albums Chart, 27 years after it first reached number
one on the chart.

Contents
 1 Production
  2 Release

o 2.1 Singles

o 2.2 Reissue

 3 Critical reception

 4 Legacy

 5 Track listing

o 5.1 Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged

 6 Personnel

 7 Charts

o 7.1 Weekly charts

o 7.2 Year-end charts

o 7.3 Decade-end charts

 8 Certifications and sales

 9 Release history

 10 See also

 11 References

Production
After the massive success of George Michael's 1987 album Faith, expectations for his
follow-up album were also high. Michael wanted to be taken more seriously as a
songwriter,[3] which resulted in a more thoughtful, often moody recording.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 is largely devoted to ballads and folk-styled rock
songs, although there are a few dance tracks like "Freedom" and "Soul Free". There
was also a remix of "Freedom" that incorporated elements of Soul II Soul's "Back to
Life", which was released as a twelve-inch single and received a good deal of club
play. Like Faith, each track was produced and arranged by Michael himself.

Release
In September 1990, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was released. The album sold
approximately eight million copies worldwide,[4] a disappointing number compared to
the 20 million copies of Faith. Sales were particularly poor in the United States,
where Faith had been the best-selling album of 1988. At two million copies sold,
Listen Without Prejudice was a commercial disappointment for a successful artist.
The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 22 and finally reached number two,
blocked from the top by MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em. The album
spent the rest of 1990 in the top ten, with a total of 42 weeks on the entire chart—
fewer than half the 87 weeks spent by Faith.

In the United Kingdom, the album was a huge success, eclipsing sales of Faith. Listen
Without Prejudice debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number one, where it
remained for a week. It stayed at number two for the following two weeks. It spent 34
consecutive weeks in the top 20, and jumped from number 13 to number three in its
24th week. It spent a total of 88 weeks on the chart, and was certified quadruple
platinum by the British Phonographic Industry on 2 January 1992.

The follow-up album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 2 (ostensibly scheduled to follow
in June 1991) was scrapped for reasons known only to Michael and his record
company. Three of the tracks intended for that album appear on the 1992 charity
compilation Red Hot + Dance, while a fourth ("Crazy Man Dance") turned up on the
B-side of that compilation's first single, "Too Funky".

Singles

The first single from Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, "Praying for Time", was
released in August 1990, reaching number six on the UK Singles Chart and number
one on the US Billboard Hot 100—Michael's final US number one as a solo artist.[5][6]
The second single (third in the US), "Waiting for That Day", was issued a month after
the album's release. Owing to a borrowed lyric from The Rolling Stones' hit "You
Can't Always Get What You Want", co-writer credits were given to Mick Jagger and
Keith Richards. It reached number 23 in the UK,[5] and, after being released there in
spring 1991, number 27 in the US.[6] In the US, the single's B-side, "Mother's Pride",
reached number 46;[6] given its subject matter, it received considerable airplay on
American radio during the Gulf War.[7]

The album's third single (second in the US), "Freedom! '90", became one of Michael's
signature songs. It was a great success in the US, where it reached number eight and
earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.[6][8] It
charted lower in Michael's homeland, where it peaked at number 28.[5] The fourth
single, "Heal the Pain", peaked at number 31 in the UK in February 1991.[5] The fifth
single from Listen Without Prejudice, "Cowboys and Angels", entered the UK Singles
Chart in March and peaked at number 45.[5] "Soul Free" was released as a commercial
single in Australia, where it charted at number 95,[9] and Japan.[10]

Michael refused to appear in the music videos for the album's singles. Accordingly,
the video for "Praying for Time" consisted of the song's lyrics projected onto a dark
background, while the video for "Freedom! '90", directed by David Fincher, featured
several supermodels lip syncing its lyrics, and the destruction by fire and explosion of
several icons from Michael's recent Faith period.

Reissue
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was reissued on 20 October 2017 as Listen Without
Prejudice / MTV Unplugged.[11][12][13] The reissue was first announced in September
2016.[14][15] The 2CD version includes the original remastered album on the first disc,
and Michael's MTV Unplugged concert, recorded at 3 Mills Studios, London on 11
October 1996, on the second disc.[11] MTV Unplugged contains performances of "I
Can't Make You Love Me" and "The Strangest Thing" that are identical to those
previously released as B-sides to the single "Older", and the 2017 version of
"Fantasy", reworked by Nile Rodgers and released as a single in September 2017.[11]
The 3CD+DVD deluxe edition includes two more discs: a CD with B-sides, remixes
and rarities, and a DVD with a documentary and music videos.[12] Rarities on the third
disc include: "If You Were My Woman" (recorded live at the Nelson Mandela 70th
Birthday Tribute concert in 1988 and featured on the "Praying for Time" single),
"Crazy Man Dance", and "Do You Really Want to Know" and "Happy" (from Red
Hot + Dance).[12] The original remastered album was also reissued on vinyl.[16] Listen
Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged entered the UK Albums Chart at number one
with first-week sales of 56,088 copies, 27 years after the original album first topped
the chart.[17][18]

Critical reception
Professional ratings

Review scores

Source Rating
[19]
AllMusic
[20]
Chicago Tribune

Entertainment Weekly B−[21]

[22]
Los Angeles Times

Pitchfork 8.8/10[23]
[24]
Q
[25]
Record Collector
[26]
Rolling Stone

Select 4/5[27]

The Village Voice C+[28]

Reviewing Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 for Rolling Stone, James Hunter stated that
the album mostly "succeeds in its effort to establish Michael's seriousness and deliver
him from caricature."[26] Los Angeles Times critic Chris Willman wrote that, "some
self-seriousness aside", Listen Without Prejudice "is an impressive piece of work in
which Michael's rich feel for melodies and instinctively perfect production skills have
finally met up with songs that have the ring of personal, not commercial, passion."[22]
Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune particularly complimented the album's spare sound,
which he viewed as a welcome contrast to the more dance-leaning music dominating
contemporary hit radio.[20]

Entertainment Weekly's Greg Sandow was less enthusiastic, finding Listen Without
Prejudice less "vital" and "fun" than Faith, "and, for all its noble sentiment, entirely
unchallenging".[21] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice said that Michael's retreat
from dance music resulted in less interesting songs, and asserted that Michael "doesn't
know as much about stardom as he thinks".[28]

Listen Without Prejudice won the award for British Album of the Year at the 1991
Brit Awards.[29]

Legacy
In 2010, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was included in the book 1001 Albums You
Must Hear Before You Die.[30] In a positive appraisal of the album's 2017 reissue,
Pitchfork writer Alfred Soto situated the album in the context of the then-burgeoning
HIV/AIDS pandemic: "[George Michael] understood black music as the product of a
familiarity with death leavened by the banalities of earth: love, sex, comfort.
Something was happening that autumn to gay artists closeted from their fans. In
October [1990], Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe released Behaviour, the quietest album
of the Pet Shop Boys' career. The unceasing piling up of bodies killed by HIV had
made, for the moment, the bacchanal into a gauche if not repulsive gesture of
sentimentality."[23] According to Soto: "For those of us too young for the plague years
—who can imagine, at least, a life lived instead of convulsing in agony on a hospital
bed—chastising Michael for leaning on elegies and ballads in 1990 strikes me as glib.
In its original form, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was the follow-up that Faith
demanded; in this new incarnation, it's a miscellany unruffled by notions of
coherence, an attempt to make art out of George Michael's quarrels with himself."[23]

Track listing
All tracks written and produced by George Michael, except where noted.

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 – Standard edition

No. Title Length

1. "Praying for Time" 4:41

2. "Freedom! '90" 6:30

3. "They Won't Go When I Go" (writers: Stevie Wonder, Yvonne Wright) 5:06

4. "Something to Save" 3:18

5. "Cowboys and Angels" 7:15

6. "Waiting for That Day" (writers: Michael, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) 4:49
 7. "Mother's Pride" 3:59

8. "Heal the Pain" 4:41

9. "Soul Free" 5:29

10. "Waiting" (Reprise) 2:25

Total length: 48:13

Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged

Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged – Standard edition – Disc 2: MTV Unplugged

No. Title Length

1. "Freedom! '90" (live) 6:02

2. "Fastlove" (live) 5:12

3. "I Can't Make You Love Me" (live) 5:55

4. "Father Figure" (live) 6:19

5. "You Have Been Loved" (live) 5:55

6. "Everything She Wants" (live) 5:13

7. "The Strangest Thing" (live) 6:00

8. "Older" (live) 5:47

9. "Star People" (live) 6:15

10. "Praying for Time" (live) 5:29

11. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (with Elton John) (Japanese bonus 5:47
track)

12. "Fantasy" (featuring Nile Rodgers) 4:02

Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged – Deluxe edition – Disc 3: B-sides, remixes
and rarities

No. Title Length

1. "Soul Free" (Special Radio Edit) 4:25

2. "Freedom! '90" (Back to Reality Mix) 6:16

3. "Freedom! '90" (Back to Reality Mix Edit) 4:07

4. "Fantasy" 5:02
 5. "Freedom! '90" (Edit) 5:21

6. "Cowboys and Angels" (Edit) 4:36

7. "If You Were My Woman" (live at Wembley Stadium, 11 Jun '88) 4:06

8. "Too Funky" (Single Edit) 3:50

9. "Crazy Man Dance" 6:00

10. "Do You Really Want to Know" 4:49

11. "Happy" 4:09

12. "Too Funky" (Extended) 5:39

13. "Too Jazzy" (Happy Mix) 5:55

14. "Fantasy '98" 4:32

15. "Heal the Pain" (with Paul McCartney) 4:45

16. "Desafinado" (with Astrud Gilberto) 3:21

Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged – Deluxe edition – Disc 4: DVD

No. Title Length

1. "The Southbank Show 1990" (documentary)  

2. "Freedom! '90" (music video)  

3. "Praying for Time" (music video)  

4. "Freedom! '90" (MTV 10th Anniversary performance)  

Notes

 The track "Waiting for That Day" includes a sample of James Brown's "Funky
Drummer" drum break, which was also used in "Freedom! '90". Heretofore regarded
as a hip-hop technique, this was deemed unorthodox for a pop song. The song's final
line comes from The Rolling Stones' classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want".
 The album cover image is a cropped section of the 1940 photograph Crowd at Coney
Island by Weegee.

Personnel
 George Michael – vocals, keyboards (1, 6, 9), bass guitar (2, 4, 5, 9), acoustic guitar
(4, 7, 8), drums (1), programming, percussion, backing vocals, horn arrangements,
production
 Chris Porter – mix engineer
  Danny Cummings – drums, percussion
 Tony Patler – keyboards
 Ian Thomas – drums, percussion
 Deon Estus – bass guitar, backing vocals
 Phil Palmer – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 Chris Cameron – keyboards, piano, horn arrangements, string arrangements
 Emily Burridge – cello
 Andy Hamilton – saxophone
 Alfia Nakipbekova – cello
 Pete Gleadall – sequencer, programming
 Shirley Lewis - backing vocals
 Bradford Branson – inner photography

Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts Chart (1990–91)
Peak
position

Australian Albums (ARIA)[31] 2

Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[32] 5

Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[33] 6

Canadian Albums (The Record)[34] 5

Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[35] 2

European Albums (Top 100)[36] 2

Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen

11
lista)[37]

French Albums (SNEP)[38] 2

German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)

[39] 7

Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[40] 23

Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[41] 6

Irish Albums (IRMA) [42] 2

Japanese Albums (Oricon)[43] 3

New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[44] 2

Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[45] 4

Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[46] 2

Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)

[47] 3
 Peak
Chart (1990–91)
position

Swiss Albums (Schweizer

3
Hitparade)[48]

UK Albums (OCC)[49] 1

US Billboard 200[50] 2

US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

61
(Billboard)[51]

Peak
Chart (2017)
position

Australian Albums (ARIA)[52] 5

Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[53] 13

Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

[54] 4

Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)

[55] 14

Canadian Albums (Billboard)[56] 34

Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[57] 16

Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[58] 7

Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[59] 6

French Albums (SNEP)[60] 12

German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)

[61] 9

Greek Albums (IFPI)[62] 5

Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[63] 21

Irish Albums (IRMA)[64] 3

Italian Albums (FIMI)[65] 6

Japanese Albums (Oricon)[66] 35

New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[67] 5

Polish Albums (ZPAV)[68] 8

Portuguese Albums (AFP)[69] 3

Scottish Albums (OCC)[70] 1

Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[71] 8

 Peak
Chart (2017)
position

Swiss Albums (Schweizer

12
Hitparade)[72]

UK Albums (OCC)[73] 1

US Billboard 200[74] 41

US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

22
(Billboard)[75]

Chart (1990) Position

Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[76] 31

Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[77] 30

French Albums (SNEP)[78] 20

German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[79] 99

Japanese Albums (Oricon)[80] 82

New Zealand (RMNZ)[81] 39

Norwegian Autumn Period Albums (VG-lista)[82] 14

Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[46] 17

Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [83] 35

UK Albums (OCC)[84] 10

US Billboard 200[85] 100

Chart (1991) Position

Australian Albums (ARIA)[86] 31

Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[87] 56

Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[88] 34

UK Albums (OCC)[89] 30

US Billboard 200[90] 44

Chart (2017) Position

Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[91] 77

Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[92] 155

UK Albums (OCC)[93] 17
Decade-end charts

Chart (1990–99) Position

UK Albums (OCC)[94] 61

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales

Australia (ARIA)[95] 2× Platinum 140,000^

Austria (IFPI Austria)[96] Gold 25,000*

Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[97] Gold 100,000*

Canada (Music Canada)[98] 2× Platinum 200,000^

France (SNEP)[99] Platinum 468,600[100]

Germany (BVMI)[101] Gold 250,000^

Japan (RIAJ)[102] Platinum 200,000^

Netherlands (NVPI)[103] Platinum 100,000^

New Zealand (RMNZ)[104] Platinum 15,000^

Spain (PROMUSICAE)[46] Platinum 100,000^

Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[105] Platinum 50,000^

United Kingdom (BPI)[108] 4× Platinum 1,435,539[106][107]

United States (RIAA)[109] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^

Summaries

Worldwide — 8,000,000[4]
*
Sales figures based on certification alone.
^
Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history
Region Date Label Format Edition Catalog

United 3 September
Epic 467295[110]
Kingdom 1990  CD
 LP
11 Original
United  cassette
September Columbia 46898[111]
States
1990

Japan 18 October Epic 2Blu-spec CD Listen Without SICP-31004-05[112]

 Prejudice / MTV
Unplugged
2017 Japan Listen Without
3Blu-spec
Prejudice / MTV SICP-31000-03[113]
CD+DVD
Unplugged (Deluxe)

LP Original remastered 888751452718[16]

 2CD Listen Without

United 20 October  digital Prejudice / MTV 888751580527[11]
Sony
Kingdom 2017 Unplugged
 3CD+DVD Listen Without
 digital Prejudice / MTV 888751580428[12]
Unplugged (Deluxe)

See also
 Panayiotou v. Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.

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