GEORGE MICHAEL 2xLP The Trojan Souls (The Unreleased Album – Deluxe Edition)

LIMITED EDITION DELUXE DOUBLE VINYL VERSION

In 1993 George Michael and his cousin Andros Giorgiou had an amazing idea – to create an album written and produced by George, with other major artists (i.e. Stevie Wonder, Seal, Janet Jackson) to record the songs. It was going to be a collection of duets, featuring George singing with several artists including: Seal, Sade, Janet Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Bryan Ferry, and Elton John.

This project was called ’The Trojan Souls’, and in 1993 Warner Brother gave George and Andros a million dollars to produce it. George spent countless hours in the studio writing and recording the tracks. The resulting work would have become an instant George Michael classic.

Unfortunately due to devastating personal events, George was unable to continue working and the project was shelved. While the instrumental tracks to each song had been completed, the vocals were left in various states. A couple were 100% complete, some had choruses, and others were left in instrumental form.

One of the songs – named “W.T.F.” was to be recorded as a duet by George and Sade. It remained an instrumental with no vocals.

“Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” was intended as the lead single off the scrapped Trojan Souls project. This is from the L.A Times dated January 24th 1993.

Disc 1: All Tracks With Vocals
A1 This Kind Of Love
A2 Maybe Its Not Your Time
A3 One Day I’ll Know
A4 You Slipped Away From Me

B1 Ain’t No Stopping Us Now
B2 This Kind Of Love (Elton’s First Take)
B3 This Kind Of Love (Rough Demo)
B4 Maybe Its Not Your Time (George’s First Take)
B5 Galaxy

Disc 2: Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc Of Intrumentals
C1 Wendy’s Song
C2 W.T.F (Sade’s Song)
C3 Stevie Wonder’s Song

D1 Janet Jackson’s Song
D2 Seal’s Song (Demo)
D3 Maybe It’s Not Your Time
D4 Galaxy (Demo)
D5 One Day I’ll Know