Originally Posted by ~Twinkle~:
“"As". Not written by George, it was written by the wonderful Stevie Wonder, but it's my favourite George Michael song.”
I'm a Stevie Wonder fan and I always turn the radio off when they play GM's version - not that he doesn't do it well, but it seems to me the channels never play Stevie's version, which is superb! It's the same with his other covers - they get played much more than the originals do (as do many other covers by many other artists).
I think the originals deserve equal air time - George has made enough great original music of his own; I'd feel the same if a new version Careless Whisper came out and we never heard GM's version again.