Sathnam Sanghera

When the executive, the first band formed, people were saying that Andrew was the better singer.

And you know, Andrew led, you watch the early interviews, Andrew's dominating the conversation.

Andrew was the one with style.

And I think George just discovered very, like halfway through the first album,

Gosh, he could do it.

He actually could write amazing pop songs.

And he could sing.

I think it was a massive surprise to himself.

And I think that's where some of that comes from.

Yeah, it's very complex.

It's not what people think it is.

And there's now a new narrative because of Andrew's book and the film and the documentaries, which is not quite right.

It's like all friendships.

And I remember also this is a friendship that was strained because of money, tens of millions of pounds involved.

So obviously it wasn't neat.

You often hear people say, oh, George Michael gave Andrew the writing credits on Careless Whisper as a gift because he was so kind.

It's not what happened at all.

And actually, I found evidence that George actually possibly negotiated Andrew's royalties down.

But the fact is, Andrew did co-write that song and he co-wrote

Club Tropicana as well and a couple of other songs and you know it's just not that Andrew was untalented which became the narrative it's just that George was insanely talented and Andrew in this amazing way didn't want to get in the way but he definitely regrets doing that I think he now wishes I mean I did the first interview with him when he wrote that book he definitely feels that he should have carried on he should have pushed George to insist on co-writing a few songs