We’ve got exciting news for you all! George is releasing a new single: “True Faith”. Above that, George has generously made the decision to donate ALL money from the new single to Comic Relief! Arranged and produced by George himself, “True Faith” was a hit for New Order in 1987 and was written by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Hague. The writers have followed George’s lead and are also very kindly donating their proceeds to Comic Relief along with the publishers’ mechanical royalties.

The single, plus an instrumental version of the track as a b-side, will be available digitally on March 13 and physically on March 14. At 12:01 am on March 19, after the “True Faith” official music video has been premiered for Comic Relief, the single and video will be available for purchase as a bundle exclusively through iTunes. Check back to GeorgeMichael.com and Facebook for links to the songs as they become available!

On Red Nose Day, March 18, do something funny for money and change countless lives. Comic Relief spends all the money raised by the public to give extremely poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa a helping hand to turn their lives around.

Over the years, George has been the most tremendous supporter of Comic Relief. Out of the blue one year he gave us all the cash from the release of “As”, his single with Mary J Blige. Then he did a brilliant Little Britain ‘Lou and Andy’ sketch – which ended with the inevitable insult slung at him - “I don’t like him.” But most excitingly, he’s giving Comic Relief all the money from his new single, “True Faith”. It’s always so moving when people stick with us year after year – and we’re thrilled and delighted about the song, and the wonderful video that goes with it. We promise we’ll use every penny we make from it to save and change lives in Africa and all over the UK. –Richard Curtis, Vice Chair, Comic Relief

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Can't wait to hear his version.

I hate that America has dropped the Comic Relief efforts.

sosgemini said:

I hate that America has dropped the Comic Relief efforts.

I bet it was because of money. That's just an excuse now. And a stupid way of dropping it if that's the real case.

wow. this is one of my fave new order tracks. gm is great at covers, i hope he does a good job. hopefully there will be a squillion remixes too

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I like it.

Still prefer the original but this is no worse than 'Crimson and Clover.'

Yeah I like it too.

I don't like the vocoder vocal at all, with his usual beautiful vocal it would have sounded much better.

It will be good addition to his live set I quess......

It's nice but I reeeaaally don't like the vocoder at all. Isn't anyone immune to this thing?

not really crazy about this, but good to see George recording again

I'm surprised that overall people have been so negative about this song. I really like it! I'm only a casual fan of GM. I've been to see him live a couple of times, but don't follow everything he does that closely.

I like the vocoder effect. It reminds me of how Madonna used it on her Music album on songs like Nobody's Perfect.

I guess with GM people have a specific idea of what he should sound like and if tries something a little different, people don't like it. But I think it's cool.

It's not a vocoder, it's autotune. Not the same thing.

Glindathegood said:

I'm surprised that overall people have been so negative about this song. I really like it! I'm only a casual fan of GM. I've been to see him live a couple of times, but don't follow everything he does that closely.

I like the vocoder effect. It reminds me of how Madonna used it on her Music album on songs like Nobody's Perfect.

I guess with GM people have a specific idea of what he should sound like and if tries something a little different, people don't like it. But I think it's cool.

Yeah the music actually fits with the autotune. If it was in a different sound I would've had a problem with it but I don't.

I really like this song. Effects remind me a bit of Daft punk.

Funny how people react on the voice effect on this site...Camille? anyone?

Besides, George is no stranger to voice effects himself, he used it on Hard day and I want your sex.

Crappy, sounds phoned in, and lazy. Boring cover of a not boring song. Cant give George a pass for using the tricks that we bitch about everyone else using. Possibly his worst effort yet, glad its only a charity write-off

robertlove said:

I really like this song. Effects remind me a bit of Daft punk.

Funny how people react on the voice effect on this site...Camille? anyone?

Besides, George is no stranger to voice effects himself, he used it on Hard day and I want your sex.

I think the talk box was used in the "part two" version of "Fastlove" too.

Timmy84 said:

robertlove said:

I really like this song. Effects remind me a bit of Daft punk.

Funny how people react on the voice effect on this site...Camille? anyone?

Besides, George is no stranger to voice effects himself, he used it on Hard day and I want your sex.

I think the talk box was used in the "part two" version of "Fastlove" too.

its not even him using it, its just that its done in such a lazy fashion, people talk about Britney not-being interested in the way she looks when she dances in a video, George sounds like we are forcing him to record