clive davis at the record company headed immediately as a j, but strangely he thought it was for whitneyrge who i later met, was an incredible visionary and a great gentleman, he said i love whitney but i would prefer to do with aretha franklin, if you did not mind. they we re franklin, if you did not mind. they were quite surprised by that, but when you heard the two voices blending together, it was a com pletely blending together, it was a completely magical blend and i could not have wished for more for that son. this song is as good as the singer, they say. it was a different career move for george michael, that kind ofj. it was, -- that kind of do it. radioi kind ofj. it was, -- that kind of do it. radio i was was the biggest thing, top of the pops and radio i, so we thing, top of the pops and radio i, so we always had a complete spectrum of music available to us at the time, but in america it was very much rock radio, or black radio, or this kind of radio. with that one song, george not only broke his pop career in america, but he crossed over to the r&b and i think he won a grammy