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George Michael: Americans find me laughable
Published Saturday, Jun 16 2007, 14:19 BST | By Neil Wilkes
The singer - famed for hits such as 'Faith' and 'Spinning The Wheel' - put his US troubles down to his infamous 1998 "incident" with an undercover cop in a public toilet in Beverly Hills.
He believes that a legal dispute with record label Sony in 1993, plus a 2002 single criticising the Bush administration, only served to add to his woes.
Michael explained: "I've actually been a bit of a laughable name since the early nineties. Since I took on Sony, everything went wrong there. From that point on, I didn't have the radio and I had some pretty bad publicity.
"The publicity in the last 18 months hasn't helped, and so I think I'm a bit of a joke. But it didn't really bother me anyway."
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