Sathnam Sanghera

He spent six months recording.

recording Fast Love, six months.

The thing is, though, it worked.

If you look at his hit rate, the Hot 100 in America, he had 19 entries, I think, eight number ones.

Highest hit rate of any artist in the history of the Hot 100.

It's partly why I wanted to write the book in that

He's everywhere, even now, and yet there are many books about his talent and his musicality.

Lots of books about his gossipy books about his love life and the way he died and so on, but nothing taking him seriously as an artist.

I think there's two things.

I think one thing is that by playing it himself, sometimes in a slightly inexpert way, like chopsticks, it meant all the emphasis was on his voice.

And he understood the magic of his music was that voice.

In a way, he didn't need instruments.

It was all there.

Imagine if I had that voice, I would just sing to myself constantly, you know?

But more fundamentally, his childhood, I think he had a very authoritarian father.

And he had to fight him like every step of the way to become the person he wanted to become.

And he never stopped fighting.

You know, he fought everyone.

He just and it was mostly positive, but sometimes it could be negative.

I was worried about writing a book about George.