How George Michael changed my life - The Saturday Story
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How George Michael changed my life - The Saturday Story

Pressures of migrant parents, the shackles of family expectation, and the urge to reinvent yourself in 90s Britain - all themes that connect writer Sathnam Sanghera with George Michael. Growing up in Wolverhampton as the son of Sikh immigrants, Sanghera was a teenage Wham obsessive, later finding unexpected parallels with the pop star’s life, and his own.


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Read by: Sathnam Sanghera, contributor, The Times.

Producer: Dave Creasey.

Further reading: Sathnam Sanghera: how George Michael changed my life

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Photo: Robert Wilson for the Times magazine.

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