Faith tour · Houston · October 1988
On the Faith tour he wore one dangly cross earring. Here it hangs over thirteen rooms and stages from his solo life, with Wham! at the start of it.
Thirteen places · 1984 to 2020
On the Faith tour his look was a leather motorcycle jacket, light jeans, aviators and a dangly cross earring. Push it, let it swing, or tap a year.
The cross hangs still. Give it a push.
Nothing yet. The cross is hanging over 2006.
Gjerlev, Jutland · February 1987 · then Notting Hill
George Michael wrote the Faith lyrics at the microphone. Chris Porter dropped him in one or two syllables at a time, sometimes after hearing a line once. It took many, many hours.
The organ at the start is a cathedral preset on a Yamaha DX7, and the tune it plays is Freedom, the Wham! single. The drums are a LinnDrum: he did not want real drummers.
Blanks stand in for the words. There are no lyrics on this page.
An empty line. Drop him in.
February 1987 · Gjerlev, north of Randers, Jutland, Denmark
George Michael moved to Puk, a residential studio about an hour’s drive from Aarhus, in February 1987, and the Faith sessions began there.
The live room’s floor sat at about the height of the console top, so players were at eye level with the control room.
The studio buildings were badly damaged by fire in 2020 and are privately owned. There is nothing to visit, so it is not on the map.
1987 · 8–10 Basing Street, Notting Hill, London W11
Finish the vocal in Denmark first.
Careless Whisper was recorded again here after George Michael was unhappy with a first version made with Jerry Wexler in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Eleven saxophonists were auditioned for its solo. Steve Gregory got it, and played it in one breath.
A former chapel on a quiet Notting Hill street, now flats. See the front and its plaque from the pavement; there is no way in.
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 · 1990
For his next record he would not pose for the cover, and he turned down the promotion he had done for Faith.
The Faith look, still in the frame.
Most of Older was made in Studio 2 as well, over almost a year, in fits and starts. He arrived with the songs in his head and made no demos. He wrote words and melodies while recording, and on about half the tracks he ran his own vocal drop-ins with a remote on a speaker stand in the studio.
Older was the first record on his own label, Aegean, set up after his split from Sony.
Wembley · 1985, 1986, 1992, 2007
Pick a night, then the name beside him.
Before it, the stadium’s managing director listed his earlier Wembley nights: Live Aid, Wham!’s farewell, the Freddie Mercury tribute and NetAid in 1999.
The stadium was rebuilt on the old site. Tours go behind the scenes into areas usually kept for the stars of sport and music; book on the stadium’s site.
23 March 1991 · next door
On 23 March 1991, on his Cover to Cover tour, Elton John walked on as a surprise guest to sing Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me with him. That recording became the single.
Elton argued against releasing it. It went to number one in the UK and on the Billboard Hot 100, and was his last American number one in his lifetime.
In 1993 he headlined the Concert of Hope here, on World AIDS Day.
Next to the stadium, now OVO Arena Wembley. Go in for a concert.
Wembley, London
A tour deep into the stadium, into areas usually kept for the biggest names in sport and music. Book online.
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Wembley Park’s own guide names it the closest hotel to both the stadium and OVO Arena, the two rooms of his Wembley nights, with an indoor pool and a rooftop bar.
Check datesAn empty engine shed. The tickets are free, for nurses only.
Chalk Farm Road, Camden · December 2006
In December 2006, as he finished his greatest hits tour, he played a free Christmas concert here for about 2,000 NHS nurses.
He had made the promise in the last week of his mother’s life, almost ten years before: if he played his own concerts again, there would be a free show for NHS nurses.
A performance venue in a round Victorian engine shed on Chalk Farm Road. Go in for a show.
Symphonica · 22 August 2011 to October 2012
His last tour put an orchestra behind him and took him into opera houses. Raise each curtain.
Five curtains down.
22 August 2011
Wilsonova, New Town, Prague
Symphonica, 2011–2012
Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London
6 November 2011
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London
August 2012
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London
9 September 2012
Place de l’Opéra, Paris 9e
Paris 9e · From €15
Self-guided visits daily, 10am to 3.30pm. €15 for adults from France and the EEA, €25 from elsewhere, booked online only. Rehearsals can close the auditorium.
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A 60-minute guided tour of the 2012 Olympic Stadium: the West Ham dressing room, the players’ tunnel and pitchside.
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Compare tours499 Kingsbury Road · September 2020
Dawn Mellor’s mural was unveiled at 499 Kingsbury Road in September 2020, one of 24 installations in the Brent Biennial.
It is a montage of his career, from Wham! to the solo years, with scenes from the Careless Whisper and Outside videos. It takes in Kingsbury too: a nod to John Logie Baird, who lived in the area, a Monopoly board and the Yellow Brick Road.
On the side of a building on Kingsbury Road, in the part of London where he grew up and went to school. Free to see from the street.
Highgate and Goring-on-Thames · May 2018
He died suddenly at his home in Goring-on-Thames on Christmas Day 2016. After he died, fans left flowers and messages outside his homes in Highgate and Goring-on-Thames.
In May 2018 his father, his sisters and his friend David Austin asked fans to collect the tributes so both homes could go back to how they were, for the neighbours’ sake.
Instead, they suggested volunteering for or giving to one of his favourite charities, or random acts of kindness.
So neither house is on this map. He was a weekly regular at the Miller of Mansfield, a pub in the village, where the staff wanted him left in peace.
12 places you can visit. His homes in Highgate and Goring-on-Thames are private and not mapped, and Puk Studios in Denmark was lost to fire in 2020.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A former chapel on a quiet Notting Hill street, now flats. See the front and its plaque from the pavement; there is no way in.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The stadium was rebuilt on the old site. Tours go behind the scenes into areas usually kept for the stars of sport and music; book on the stadium’s site.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Next to the stadium, now OVO Arena Wembley. Go in for a concert.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A performance venue in a round Victorian engine shed on Chalk Farm Road. Go in for a show.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A concert hall in South Kensington, across from Kensington Gardens. Go in for a concert.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. On Bow Street in Covent Garden. Go in for an opera or a ballet.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The Olympic Stadium, now home to West Ham. Guided 60-minute tours take in the dressing room, the tunnel and pitchside; book on the stadium’s tour site.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: area · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. On the side of a building on Kingsbury Road, in the part of London where he grew up and went to school. Free to see from the street.
8–10 Basing Street, Notting Hill, London W11
Careless Whisper was recorded again here after George Michael was unhappy with a first version made with Jerry Wexler in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
A former chapel on a quiet Notting Hill street, now flats. See the front and its plaque from the pavement; there is no way in.
Wembley, north-west London
At Live Aid, on 13 July 1985, Elton John handed him the microphone for Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, the second-last song of Elton’s set.
The stadium was rebuilt on the old site. Tours go behind the scenes into areas usually kept for the stars of sport and music; book on the stadium’s site.
Engineers Way, Wembley, north-west London
On 23 March 1991, on his Cover to Cover tour, Elton John walked on as a surprise guest to sing Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me with him. That recording became the single.
Next to the stadium, now OVO Arena Wembley. Go in for a concert.
Chalk Farm Road, Camden, London
In December 2006, as he finished his greatest hits tour, he played a free Christmas concert here for about 2,000 NHS nurses.
A performance venue in a round Victorian engine shed on Chalk Farm Road. Go in for a show.
Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London
Symphonica played the Royal Albert Hall. The tour finished in London in October 2012.
A concert hall in South Kensington, across from Kensington Gardens. Go in for a concert.
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London
On 6 November 2011 a Symphonica charity show here raised more than £987,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Elizabeth Taylor Memorial Fund.
On Bow Street in Covent Garden. Go in for an opera or a ballet.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London
At the London 2012 closing ceremony he sang Freedom! ’90, then his new single, White Light.
The Olympic Stadium, now home to West Ham. Guided 60-minute tours take in the dressing room, the tunnel and pitchside; book on the stadium’s tour site.
499 Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury, north-west London
Dawn Mellor’s mural was unveiled at 499 Kingsbury Road in September 2020, one of 24 installations in the Brent Biennial.
On the side of a building on Kingsbury Road, in the part of London where he grew up and went to school. Free to see from the street.
Stay
The closest hotel to the stadium and the arena, the two buildings of his Wembley nights.
Wembley Park, London
Wembley Park’s own guide names it the closest hotel to both the stadium and OVO Arena, the two rooms of his Wembley nights, with an indoor pool and a rooftop bar.
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Wembley and London Stadium tours, the Palais Garnier on your own, and music walks in London and Paris on the marketplace.
Wembley, London
A tour deep into the stadium, into areas usually kept for the biggest names in sport and music. Book online.
Book a tourStratford, London
A 60-minute guided tour of the 2012 Olympic Stadium: the West Ham dressing room, the players’ tunnel and pitchside.
Book a tourParis 9e · From €15
Self-guided visits daily, 10am to 3.30pm. €15 for adults from France and the EEA, €25 from elsewhere, booked online only. Rehearsals can close the auditorium.
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The restored 1988 Bercy concert film opens in UK and Irish cinemas on 6 November 2026. In Paris, Le Grand Rex previews it on 1 November.
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Take it home
The Printed Originals store holds no George Michael originals, so there are no posters. Instead: a biography, a book on the making of Faith and four records.
James Gavin
A full biography, published by Abrams Press in 2022.
Find the bookMatthew Horton
A short book on the making of Faith, from Puk to Sarm West.
Find the bookGeorge Michael · Vinyl LP, Columbia OC 40867, 1987
Begun at Puk in Jutland, finished in Studio 2 at Sarm West.
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Find a copyGeorge Michael · Vinyl LP, Epic 467295 1, 1990
The record he would not put his face on.
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Find a copyGeorge Michael and Queen · CD, Parlophone CDR 6340, 1993
Somebody to Love from the Wembley tribute, for the Mercury Phoenix Trust.
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Find a copyGeorge Michael · CD, Virgin EMI, 2014
The orchestral tour that opened in Prague and played the Palais Garnier.
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Find a copyDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
15 of 15 places · 19 of 19 Moments
8–10 Basing Street, Notting Hill, London W11
Careless Whisper re-recorded at Sarm West; Steve Gregory plays the solo in one breath.
Faith finished at Sarm West: the middle section and the guitar solo.
Older made over almost a year in Studio 2, with no demos.
Gjerlev, north of Randers, Jutland, Denmark
Faith begun at a residential studio in Jutland.
Wembley, north-west London
At Live Aid, Elton John hands him the microphone.
Wham!’s last concert, with Elton John at the piano for the encore.
He fronts Queen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.
The first concert at the new Wembley Stadium.
Engineers Way, Wembley, north-west London
Elton John walks on for the duet that became a number one.
Kitanomaru Park, Chiyoda, Tokyo
The Faith tour opens at the Budokan.
8 boulevard de Bercy, Paris 12e
Two Faith tour nights in Paris, filmed on 35mm.
Chalk Farm Road, Camden, London
A free Christmas concert for about 2,000 NHS nurses.
Wilsonova, New Town, Prague
The orchestral tour opens at the State Opera.
Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London
Symphonica at the Royal Albert Hall.
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London
A charity night raises more than £987,000.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London
Freedom! ’90 and White Light at the London 2012 closing ceremony.
Place de l’Opéra, Paris 9e
A Symphonica gala for Sidaction at the Paris opera.
499 Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury, north-west London
Dawn Mellor’s mural unveiled where he grew up.
Highgate, north London: a private house
His family ask for charity and kindness instead of tributes at his homes.
Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: a private house
