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George Michael Faith Tour

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The Faith Tour was the first solo concert tour by English recording artist George Michael, launched in support of his multi-million selling debut solo album Faith. The tour spanned nine months between February and October 1988 with three final shows in the summer of 1989 comprising 109 shows across sixteen countries. It was choreographed by Paula Abdul.

On 30 October 1987, Michael released his debut solo studio album, Faith. After receiving a 1988 Brit Award for "Best British Male" at the Royal Albert Hall in London, George Michael embarked on a massive sold out world tour which would occupy most of that year. It started in Tokyo’s Budokan indoor arena in February and ended at Pensacola Civic Center in Pensacola, Florida. Most of the set list was based off the Faith track listing with a couple of songs from Wham! ("Everything She Wants" and "I'm Your Man"). Michael also paid a tribute to artists that he had been influenced by such as "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle, Wild Cherry’s "Play That Funky Music" and Stevie Wonder’s "Love's in Need of Love Today". When Michael performed at Birmingham’s Genting Arena, Andrew Ridgeley joined him briefly onstage for a performance of "I'm Your Man". With already two U.S. number ones, new singles continued to be released while on tour with "One More Try" and "Monkey" also reaching No. 1 in late May and August 1988 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

On Saturday 11 June, Michael performed three songs including Gladys Knight’s "If You Were My Woman" for the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium. Michael used the concert as preparation for a show later the same day at London’s Earls Court.

For the first five months, Michael had consulted eight doctors in a variety of countries for throat pain which had caused some concert cancellations. Eventually in London he was diagnosed with a cyst in the throat. The demanding schedule took a pause for Michael to recuperate.

In August 1988, Michael toured the United States beginning in Landover, Maryland and closing late October in Pensacola, Florida. In Los Angeles, George was joined on stage by Aretha Franklin for a duet on "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)". The 43-date American tour alone grossed a total of $15 million (about $31 million in today's dollars), performing to over 750,000 fans. Michael also topped the Billboard Year-End of 1988 charts in the U.S. with his album Faith and single of the same title. According to RIAA, he was the top-selling artist of the year 1988 in the United States.

In early July 1989, nine months after the tour ended, Michael performed three special concerts (shows in Spain had been previously cancelled) at Madrid’s Las Ventas, La Rosaleda Stadium, Malaga and Sarrià Stadium in Barcelona.

Opening acts Deon Estus The Bangles (Texas, Louisiana, Orlando/Miami, Florida)

George Michael - Lead vocals Chris Cameron - Musical Director Carlos Rios - Guitarist Deon Estus - Bassist Moyes Lucas - Drummer Tony Patler - Keyboards Andy Hamilton - Saxophone Lynn Mabry - Vocalist Eric Henderson/Art Palmer - Dancers Lippmann Kahane Entertainment - Management Jake Duncan - Tour Manager Albert Lawrence - Production Manager Jonathan Smeeton/Shawn Richardson - Lighting Designers Benji Lefevre - Sound Engineer Chris Porter - Sound Co-ordinator Mark Fisher/Jonathan Park - Stageset Designer Gerry Raymond Barker - Stage Manager Ian Tucker - Lighting Crew Chief Chris Wade Evans - Monitor Engineer Bon Weber - Head Carpenter Michael Garabedian - Carpenter Dean Hart/Steve Olean - Riggers Siobhan Bailey - Asst. to George Michael Rusty Hooker - Tour Accountant Triad - Agency Nick Sizer - Drum Technician Adrian Wilson - Guitar Technician Gary Hodgson - Keyboard Technician Wells Christie III - Programming Technician Ronnie Franklin/Bill Greer - Security Officers Melanie Panayiotou - Hair Kathy Jeung/Melanie Panayiotou - Make Up Michael Putland/Chris Cuffaro - Tour Photographers Alan Keyes - Wardrobe Master Debra De Luca - Asst. Tour Manager Paul Corkill - Fitness Trainer Michael Deissler/Alastair Walsh - Laser Technicians Brian Latt/John Brant - Color Ray Technicians Lori Goldklang - Management Assistant Deirdre Pratt - Tour Manager Assistant Showco INC. - Sound Samuelsons - Lighting VARI*LITE INC. - Moving Lights

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Has George Michael Gone Off His Rocker?

February 18, 2020

A review of George Michael’s Faith tour stop in Rotterdam, Netherlands on April 16,1988 written by William Shaw. The concert review was published in Smash Hits magazine May 4-17, 1988 issue.

Well, he’s certainly behaving in a very odd fashion as he plays his first-ever “solo” show in Europe. William Shaw flies to Rotterdam to find out what on earth is going on …

The Press Conference

George Michael has really turned into such an odd bloke. In just six hours time he’ll be on stage, bounding around in front of thousands of people in the most energetic and pervy show he’s ever done, yet if you saw him now you’d think he was one of the most ordinary, shy. even slightly dull people you could ever wish to meet. For here he is driving the pop “press” of Europe up the wall with his rather humdrum comments about his music, hiding all the time behind a pair of dark glasses which he refuses to remove. In truth, the press conference, for which many (Smash Hits included) have travelled hundreds of miles, turns out to be quite a bore …

To be fair to George, he’s a little bit scared that one of Britain’s nosier daily “news” papers – who’ve turned out in force – are going to ask him some deeply embarrassing personal question about his girlfriend Kathy Jeung, so the first thing he says when he plumps himself behind the microphone is: “I’m here as a musician to talk about the tour … What I’m not here to do is to make a series of denials into speculations about my private life …”

So, when the journalists still end up asking such questions as “Have you ever had an AIDS test?” (Answer “No”) he looks miffed and tends to change the subject to such matters as …

His “Poorly” Back

“I put my back out playing tennis in Australia. I have a congenital problem with my lower back (i.e. he was born with it) — well they think it’s congenital. It’s something that happened on the first Wham! tour and then happened again when I was drunk carrying someone over my shoulder. When it goes out I have to stay in bed a couple of days.”

His “Poorly” Throat

“Yes, I had to cancel a couple of dates in Australia because of back and throat problems. I just had the very average run of the mill vocalist’s throat problem. It was just the shock of not singing for a while and then going out and playing three or four nights in a row …”

The “Meaning” of His Leather Jacket

(After a foreign journalist has asked “What ees the seegnificane of the letters ‘BSA’ on your jacket?”) “BSA? Er. Um. I think it’s a now defunct company that made motorbikes but they actually started off making … well, I presume they made artillery because I think the name of the company was originally British Small Arms .”

Why He Won’t Take His Sunglasses Off

“Will I take my sunglasses off? No. I’m afraid not You see if I took off my sunglasses everyone would see I was lying through my teeth ha ha ha. (?) They’re staying on.”

The Concert!

In contrast to the morning’s damp squib of a press conference, the actual concert turns out to be something of a major event. It’s George Michael’s first ever solo concert in Europe and tonight he’ll unveil the show which he’ll be bringing to Britain on June 10. And what his new stage show is about is sex, sex and more sex. It’s as if the man has gone completely sex mad. And in contrast to the rather quiet spoken chap who refused to take his dark glasses off this morning, tonight’s George Michael is a rather frantic, bottom wriggling bundle of energy.

He’s 24. he’s just sold over 10 million copies of his first solo LP “Faith” and he’s determined to make the break from being “the quiet one” in Wham!. So, to make his point he starts and ends the concert with “I Want Your Sex”, pointing as hunkily as he can to members of the audience as he sings the chorus. Of course he still plays the odd old Wham! song like “Everything She Wants” and “I’m Your Man” and much of his dancing – that familiar back to the audience bottom wiggle – is still the same, but as if to make up for ex-partner Andrew Ridgeley’s absence from the stage he bounds around, throws himself down on his knees, writhes and groans, far more than he ever did before.

And he’s pretty keen on showing the audience just how good his voice is these days. Faced by a load of screams and squeals at the end of the first number he politely asks the crowd whether they could “save their energy during the slow numbers”, i.e. pipe down a bit when he’s doing a bit of “serious” singing. He then launches into an ancient Stevie Wonder ballad “Love’s In Need Of Love Today”, which he croons away at in a very deliberately soul-ish fashion.

But the screaming continues louder than ever. Strangely enough, a couple of days after the Rotterdam show George claims on Radio One that his audience is nearly 50/50 men and women – the truth of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of people who turn up tonight are females and in fact only about one in 10 are blokes. You’ve only got to look at the crowd who queued up beforehand: loads of them are old Wham! fans wearing Wham! badges and t-shirts, one girl is there clutching a rose to throw on stage with a note attached saying “Please give this to Andrew …”

It soon becomes clear that there’s actually nothing that’s going to quieten this crowd down: it’s the first time they’ve ever been able to see George Michael in the “flesh” as he never toured in Holland with Wham! – and they’re obviously deeply impressed with this new show. Each time he pushes his jacket off as sexily as he can during a slow version of “Father Figure” they go completely bonkers, and when “A Different Corner” dies away the audience actually stop the show dead – for the first of several times – to sing loudly “We Love You George” …

For a whole minute George stands there a bit overcome before he finally has to shut them up with an “OK, OK, now I know you can sing. I want you to sing the next song for me.”

It’s “Faith” and rather amazingly the audience then sing the whole of it word perfect, though in a slightly funny accent. Quite incredible really.

But the strangest, and most mind-boggling part of the show comes at the end. George closes the show off with a v. passionate version of “Careless Whisper”. After five minutes of screaming and stamping he returns, and it’s now that the show gets really pervy. The first number is “Lady Marmalade”, an ancient disco song which includes the chant “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?” i.e. “Do you want to make some rumpy pumpy with me tonight, dearest?” And George now launches into his rather unsettling mime of the so-called “sex act” with the skimpily clad backing singer foxtress Lynn Mabry. And before you’ve got over that there he is singing “I Want Your Sex” again while writhing all over the floor with the ten foot high words “SEX” “LUST” and “LOVE” being projected on the backdrop behind him. What’s worse, there then appear these tacky animated projections of two naked “dolly” birds doing a ridiculous dance to wind up the show on an even pervier note. It’s a bit of a shame, because for the most part it’s a brilliant performance. It’s just whenever “Yog” slips into his Mr Sex role that it all becomes a bit unconvincing.

Will he have toned it down a bit when he comes to Britain in a month’s time? Will George create a bit of a stir for being so pervy? We shall all just have to jolly well wait and see …

• I Want Your Sex
• Love’s In Need Of Love Today (an old song by Stevie Wonder)
• Everything She Wants (the old Wham! song)
• Father Figure
• I’m Your Man (yet another old Wham! song)
• A Different Corner
• Hand To Mouth
• Play That Funky Music (a v. old song first recorded by a group called Wild Cherry in the mid-’70s)
• One More Try
• I Knew You Were Waiting
• Careless Whisper The Encores!
• Lady Marmalade (yet another v. old song first recorded by a group called Labellc in the mid-’70s)
• I Want Your Sex (again!)

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George Michael’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

With Last Christmas sailing up the singles charts again, now’s the time to reappraise Michael’s best tracks, from sublime pop to haunting elegies

30. Wham! – Battlestations (1986)

Tucked away on the B-side of The Edge of Heaven, Battlestations is a fascinating anomaly in the Wham! catalogue. Raw, minimal, and influenced by contemporary dancefloor trends – but still very much a pop song – it gives a glimpse of what might have happened had the duo stayed together and taken a hipper, more experimental direction.

29. George Michael – Something to Save (1990)

An understated, atypical deep cut from Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1 – stripped-back, concise, acoustic-guitar driven, with just a hint of cello and tambourine. But it does a lot with a little: Michael’s vocal is really powerful and the moment when the stacked vocal harmonies kick in halfway through is a delight.

28. Wham! – Blue (Armed With Love) (1983)

Blue started life as an unfinished near-instrumental hastily bunged on the B-side of Club Tropicana, and gradually developed on stage into a classy, blue-eyed R&B slow jam far better than a lot of songs on their debut album, Fantastic. Wham! rightly had a regard for Blue: it turned up on greatest hits album The Final.

27. George Michael – My Mother Had a Brother (2004)

Sometimes, the contents of Patience sounded a little too obviously like the work of someone who smoked an enormous quantity of weed, but My Mother Had a Brother – which retold the story of Michael’s closeted gay uncle, who killed himself on the day the singer was born – is tender and yet incredibly powerful.

26. George Michael – One More Try (1987)

Faith offered an embarrassment of songwriting riches, including the pained balladry of One More Try. A great version on Michael’s final album, Symphonica, strips away the synths and replaces them with choral backing vocals and a southern soul organ, revealing the song’s musical roots.

25. George Michael – December Song (I Dreamed of Christmas) (2011)

Inevitably overshadowed by Last Christmas, 2011’s December Song deserves to be better known. A gorgeous, heartfelt, harmony-laden but schmaltz-free ballad, it comes with a hint of darkness lurking in the background, as well as what appears to be a reference to Michael’s well-publicised troubles: “I went a little crazy / God knows they can see the child.”

24. Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (1984)

If any song embodies what infuriated people about Wham!, Wake Me Up … is it. It’s neon-hued, incredibly perky and utterly brazen in its desire to be hugely commercially successful: they performed it on Top of the Pops wearing T-shirts that read Number One. It is also a fantastic pop song, which presumably infuriated people even more.

23. George Michael – Praying for Time (1990)

Another shift away from the sound of Faith, Praying for Time is audibly immersed in the oeuvre of John Lennon. The music recalls Mind Games, while the frustrated, sarcastic lyrical tone and the slapback echo-dosed vocals are very Instant Karma!. But it rises beyond pastiche: the melody is gorgeous, Michael’s vocals are superb.

22. Wham! – Club Tropicana (1983)

Inspired by the Gap Band’s awesome Burn Rubber on Me – you can hear the influence in its backing track – Club Tropicana was the classic sweltering-summer-of-83 hit, despite considerable competition. There’s something oddly sarcastic about the lyrics: another Wham! hit more knowing than its reputation suggests.

21. George Michael – Spinning the Wheel (1996)

Given his fondness for a joint, it was perhaps inevitable that Michael would be drawn towards the sound of trip-hop in the mid-90s. But Spinning the Wheel offers trip-hop of a particularly high, luxurious quality: a beat indebted to reggae, subtle samples, a lazily soulful song atop. Plus, the sound of a spliff being lit at the end.

20. Wham! – The Edge of Heaven (1986)

The Wham! No 1 no one seems to remember – you certainly don’t hear it as often as the others nowadays – which feels unfair. It’s a sophisticated example of Michael’s way with an irrepressible 60s soul pastiche, with lyrics that played on the duo’s imminent demise: “One last time might be for ever.”

19. Wham! – Bad Boys (1983)

Reviled as the apotheosis of craven, weightless 80s pop, Wham!’s early singles were always more knowing than detractors seemed to notice. Bad Boys is a case in point: wilfully preposterous, extraordinarily camp (“Easy girls – AND LATE NIGHTS! / Cigarettes – AND LOVE BITES!”), it’s a song with its tongue cemented to its cheek that got taken in deadly earnest.

18. George Michael – Amazing (2004)

Amazing now sounds weirdly prescient, a hybrid of disco rhythms and soft-rock instrumentation that predates the latter-day obsession with yacht rock embodied by the Too Slow to Disco compilation series . The vocal, meanwhile, perfectly captures the sweet sense of wonder in the rush-of-new-love lyrics.

17. Aretha Franklin and George Michael – I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me) (1987)

On one level, I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me) was as much a statement as a song, the presence of Aretha Franklin automatically conferring a new gravitas on her co-performer. Although he didn’t write it, the song won the pair a Grammy award for best R&B performance, deservedly so: I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me) is totally joyous.

16. Wham! – Young Guns (Go for It!) (1982)

Anyone looking for a queer subtext in Wham!’s material might consider just how upset Young Guns’ protagonist seems to be about his BFF’s impending marriage. Wracked with repressed yearning, or a straightforward warning about settling down too early? Either way, the sheer quantity of hooks it packs in – and its innate understanding of how to turn club music into pop – is astonishing.

15. George Michael – Heal the Pain (1990)

Another solo Beatles-inspired tune from Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1, this time founded in the effortless melodicism of Wings-era Paul McCartney. Michael pulls it off with such aplomb that McCartney himself signed up to appear on a new version, released on 2006’s greatest hits album Twenty Five: the warmth of their duet might make it the definitive version.

14. Wham! – Freedom (1984)

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go may be more ubiquitous these days, but Wham’s second No 1 of 1984 is the better song: less tricksy and DayGlo, it’s a beautifully turned, effortlessly commercial Motown homage worthy of peak-period Holland-Dozier-Holland.

13. George Michael – Faith (1987)

Faith opens with a snatch of Freedom by Wham!, played on a church organ as if at a funeral: the cocky update of the old Bo Diddley hambone beat that follows signalled one of pop’s great reinventions. Someone should cover Faith in a straightforward rockabilly style: as it is, there’s an absolutely ghastly version by Limp Bizkit .

12. George Michael – Cowboys and Angels (1990)

A relative flop on release, which was less to do with its quality than that it was the fifth single to be taken from Listen Without Prejudice. Its hazy and, more than likely, stoned take on orchestrated jazz-pop is utterly beautiful, its lyrics surprisingly affectionate and generous, considering it’s about a love triangle.

11. George Michael – Round Here (2004)

The undisputed highlight of Patience was this mistily beautiful recollection of Michael’s childhood and teenage aspirations in the suburbs of north London. Intriguingly, it mentions his love of the Specials and the Jam, whose respective leaders, Jerry Dammers and Paul Weller, had been vocal critics of Wham!.

10. George Michael – Outside (1998)

The musical response to Michael’s arrest for “lewd behaviour” in a California lavatory is one of the finest screw-you gestures in pop history: a gleeful, unapologetic, witty hymn to cruising – “I’d service the community, but I already have, you see” – set to the best disco track he ever came up with.

9. George Michael – A Different Corner (1986)

Few artists have ever moved from teen sensation to “adult” artist with the deftness of George Michael . The real signal that the Wham! years were over, A Different Corner is a fantastic ballad and astonishingly bold. Given that it’s stark to the point of sounding eerie, it seems remarkable it made it to No 1.

8. George Michael – Father Figure (1987)

The video for Father Figure may have depicted Michael in a relationship with a woman, but the song’s lyrics told a more complex story: “Sometimes love can be mistaken for a crime.” Meanwhile, the shift from the hushed longing of the verses to the explosive, gospel-inspired chorus is just fabulous.

7. Wham! – Last Christmas (1984)

A song that pulls off Abba’s old trick of masking distraught lyrics – the protagonist’s protestations that he’s found someone else aren’t terribly convincing – with bulletproof ultra-hooky music. If it was easy to write Christmas songs as durable as Last Christmas has proved, everyone would do it and luxuriate in the annual payout. But it isn’t.

6. George Michael – You Have Been Loved (1996)

Ubiquitous on British radio after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the second of Older’s great elegies for his late partner, Anselmo Feleppa, concentrates not on Michael’s grief but that of Feleppa’s mother. Hushed and painful, it would be almost too sad to listen to if the melody were not so exquisite.

5. George Michael – Careless Whisper (1984)

The song that first signalled Michael’s solo ambitions dated back to Wham!’s first demo, but you can see how he thought it was bit luxe and grown-up for their brash image. It’s a brilliant pop song regardless, and, in “guilty feet have got no rhythm”, it boasts one of the great once-heard-never-forgotten lyrics.

4. George Michael – Fastlove (1996)

Michael described Older as the sound of him “trying to come out … to my fans”. Nowhere was that clearer than on the superb Fastlove, a paean to cruising, underpinned with grief: “I miss my baby.” The music is fabulously poised – subtle and lingering, yet funky, flecked with references to Patrice Rushen’s Forget Me Nots.

3. Wham! – Everything She Wants (1984)

If you turned over Last Christmas, you found Wham!’s greatest song, evidence of George Michael’s rapid development as a songwriter: six and half minutes of lyrical misery – its protagonist is trapped in a loveless relationship with a demanding partner – set to sublime synth-funk that has somehow never seemed to date.

2. George Michael – Jesus to a Child (1996)

Never let it be said that Michael was afraid to take risks: after a three-year absence from the charts, he returned with an astonishing seven-minute mediation on loss and grief. The tune is haunting, the lyrics – which describe Feleppa’s death and pick over the emotional aftermath – genuinely extraordinary.

1. George Michael – Freedom 90 (1990)

Freedom 90 might be George Michael’s equivalent of Changes by David Bowie: a loud declaration of a desire to keep moving artistically, complete with video featuring the leather jacket he’d worn in the Faith era set on fire. Perhaps it was a desire to get the message across that led Michael to set the lyrics to irresistible music. The buoyant house-influenced piano riff and Funky Drummer-sampling beats are very 1990 and so joyous they transcend their era; the gospel-inspired vocals soar, Michael himself sounding impassioned. The result is perfect pop music.

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Faith (Special Edition DVD)

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ISO image of the DVD from the 2011 special edition. Includes:

• George Michael and Jonathan Ross Have Words - 1987 TV special
• Music Money Love Faith - 1988 short film about the Faith Tour
• I Want Your Sex (censored)
• I Want Your Sex (uncensored)
• Father Figure
• One More Try
• Kissing a Fool

English audio; German, Spanish, French, and Italian subtitles.

See also the original 1988 Faith home video , which has interview clips not included here.

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Faith World Tour

The Faith World Tour was the supporting concert tour of George Michael 's massively popular Faith album.

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• 3.1 First leg
• 3.2 Second leg
• 3.3 Third leg
• 3.4 Fourth leg
• 4 Tour dates
• 5 References

George Michael embarked on his massive sold out world tour in 1988. In the set list of the show there were a couple of songs from the Wham! era (" Everything She Wants " and " I'm Your Man ") and some standards like " Lady Marmalade " or " Play That Funky Music ". In Los Angeles, George was joined on stage by Aretha Franklin for a duet on " I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) ". While on tour, new singles off Faith continued to be released which peaked at #1 (" One More Try ", " Monkey "); another (" Kissing a Fool ") peaked at #5 in the U.S., solidifying Michael's status as a superstar.

The live 'Faith' tour followed in February 1988, taking the hits package to a momentous opening date at Tokyo's Budokan Stadium, and then on to ecstatic audiences in Australia, Europe and North America. In June of the same year, George interrupted the tour to sing three songs at Wembley Stadium's Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute .

Michael also topped the Billboard Year-End of 1988 charts in the U.S. with his album Faith and single of the same title . According to RIAA , he was the top-selling artist of the year 1988 in the United States.

The concert on 16 April 1988 in Rotterdam was recorded with professional cameras. [1] No DVD has been released.

Also the concert on 31 May 1988 in Paris was recorded as audio. 11 tracks of that were broadcast on several radio stations all over the world. [ citation needed ]

• "I Want Your Sex (Part I & II)"
• "Father Figure"
• "I'm Your Man"
• "Everything She Wants"
• "A Different Corner"
• "Hand to Mouth"
• "One More Try"
• "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"
• "Careless Whisper"
• "I Want Your Sex (Part III)"
• "Love's in Need of Love Today"
• "Lady Marmalade"
• "I Want Your Sex"
• "I Want Your Sex (Part I )"
• "Play That Funky Music"
• "Look at Your Hands"
• "I Want Your Sex (Part 1 2 & III)"
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George Michael - The Faith Tour Program Book Paperback – January 1, 1988

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• Publisher Christine Sauers
• Publication date January 1, 1988
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Christine Sauers (January 1, 1988)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.

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