Post by valerie davenport on Sept 28, 2007 11:19:08 GMT -5
GEORGE MICHAEL: 'BANG ON HEAD TURNED ME INTO A STAR'
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Pop superstar GEORGE MICHAEL decided to become a pop star after whacking his head when he was eight years old.
The former Wham! frontman claims the injury changed his outlook on life and inspired him to become a singer.
Speaking on British BBC radio show Desert Island Discs - due to be aired on Sunday (30Sep07) - he says, "At the age of about eight I had a head injury and I know it sounds bizarre and unlikely, but it was quite a bad bang, and I had it stitched up and stuff, but all my interests changed, everything changed in six months.
"I had been obsessed with insects and creepy crawlies, I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up and, suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music, it just seemed a very, very strange thing.
"And I have a theory that maybe it was something to do with this accident, this whole left-brain right-brain thing. Nobody in my family seemed to notice but I became absolutely obsessed with music and everything changed after that."
