early solo career<\/a> will arrive in movie theaters later this year, alongside a new 18-track album of his unreleased recordings.<\/p>\n\n\tThe previously unseen footage, which has been restored and remastered, will be compiled into George Michael: The Faith Tour. Filmed during Michael\u2019s first tour, in 1988, the video was captured across 14 cameras on 35mm film over two performances in Paris at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy. (The venue is now called Accor Arena.)<\/p>\n
\n\tGeorge Michael Entertainment, in partnership with Mercury Studios, announced the news on Tuesday. Directed by collaborators Andy Morahan and David Austin, the film\u2019s producers promise the movie will offer an \u201cintimate yet explosive glimpse of an artist in complete command of his voice and stagecraft.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n\t\u201cGeorge Michael: The Faith Tour is a celebration of ambition and fearless artistry at its peak, and a moment when the then-24-year-old George Michael changed the course of his career,\u201d according to a press release. \u201cThis global theatrical event invites audiences to rediscover the power and joy of George Michael in full flight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn addition to the worldwide film release, George Michael Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment are rolling out new recordings from Michael, titled The Faith Tour, featuring tracks recorded from his Wham!<\/a> days, as well as from his solo catalogs.\u00a0Faith served as Michael\u2019s debut solo album in 1987, following the global popularity of Wham! The project went on to sell more than 10 million copies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new 18-track album of George Michael\u2019s unreleased recordings will accompany the worldwide arrival of the film A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,44445,19,17,337,63161],"class_list":{"0":"post-378948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-michael","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-wham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116209047628985832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}