2025-10-02
3 分钟Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards,
a collection of funny and heartwarming moments from some of our many castaways.
This postcard comes from the musician George Michael from an interview with Kirsty Young recorded in 2007.
George told Kirsty about how an accident played a pivotal role in his love of music.
Something strange happened.
The age of about eight, I had a head injury and I know it sounds bizarre and unlikely,
but it was quite a bad bang.
I had it stitched up and stuff, but all my interests changed.
Everything changed in six months.
I had been obsessed with insects and creepy crawlies.
I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up.
And suddenly all I wanted to know about was music.
It just seemed a very, very strange thing.
And I have a theory that maybe it was something to do with this accident,
because they had this whole left brain, right brain thing.
Nobody in my family seemed to notice.
But I became absolutely obsessed with music and everything changed after that.
So when you were in your early to mid teens, you met a friend called Andrew Ridgely.
And famously, of course, you would go on to form Wham.
And you were about 17 when Wham had its first hit, which was very, very young indeed.