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  • he.d just got out of his contact and all the record exectives were all at these awards thinking they'd had the best out of him after the faith album,,then he comes on stage and sings this song,,you can just imagine their jaws droping,,what the hell have we done,,nice one george

  • Beautiful song.

  • From Pakistan Love this Song

  • juste parfait!!!♥♥♥

  • Fantastic performance.... any body can provide me or guide to purchase this dvd ??

  • Precioso

  • Beautiful in every way. But a thumbs down for the hair - George, what were you thinking of?

  • LA CLASSE.LE TOP DU TOP.MAGNIFIQUE.

  • BRAZIL - UMA DAS MAIS BELAS MÚSICAS QUE JA OUVI EM TODOS OS TEMPOS ...ELA NÃO É SÓ UMA SIMPLES CANÇÃO E SIM UMA ORAÇÃO A DEUS ,,,UMA CONVERSA ONDE A LETRA PEDE PROTEÇÃO ....UM LAMENTO PELA PERDA DE UM AMOR...PARABÉNS

  • AWESOME!

  • If it's playback, it's a sin to hire the entire orchestra for such a thing. But I guess it happens.

  • @shetaz905

    It's not a playback! I know this song and I'm sure that original version is a little bit different.

  • @dagnyprzybyszewska I didn't think it was a playback either.

  • я люблю его музыку :*

  • Wow who are the 5 insensitive bastards who don't like this!?!?

  • 5 Justin Bieber fans don't like this video.

  • " Older" was simply a remarkable album. The older he gets the better his songs are and the more profound his voice becomes.

  • true it is play back but he still is the the man

  • @pozatronic44 what do u mean playback ?? lip-synching ? looks live sounds live...if u thought the video audio was off that happens a lot on youtube

  • Live. End of. Back when George could sing live. And please, I was there in the beginning and I'll be there in the end - if you're a George fan, don't bother trying to tell me that his voice is anywhere near as good as it once was. Fucking crack head.

  • perfecttttttttttt ...........................

  • Cuando presento esta cancion fue una bomba...

  • So beautiful.  Thank you, George.

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  • That was playback? Sounded live to me. :|

  • this song has stood the test of time, even these days it sounds so updated

  • One of the most beautiful song created by GM! Inspiring!

  • George Michael IS the best

  • One of the most beautiful songs ever written!!

  • How can anyone listen to this incredible song with a dry eye? Such incredible LOVE he had.....

  • very good

  • :) well, I have been singing for 14 years and can tell - it is a very beautiful and strong live performance. He is just so great, even hard to believe

  • Jesus to a Child, "Heaven stole." "The lover that I still miss was Jesus to a child." George has deep, colorful, emotional moody - poignant feelings - so truly poetic, to our ears and sensibilities. He's is incomparable. The fact that he's gay, shouldn't block the audience's appreciation to the overall song - regardless of who and gender. In a gay, straight, cross sex, and ambiguous sex world, our larger purpose is to appreciate the generality of song - to specific mood. Thanks George.

  • Anyone who thinks this is lip-synching should cut their ears off. If they're incapable of telling them this is live, they're basically useless anyway. The fact of the matter is, he's just that damn good.

  • @Validar yes.. he is so damn good... he is one of the best :)

  • This brings tears to my eyes, every single time I hear it. His voice sends chills through me.

  • this is sung live. pay close attention and you can hear tiny differences like gasps for breath and so forth. neeeedless to comment on the man´s incredible talent as a writer and performer. think about it, how insane is it when u practically cant hear the difference anymore??

  • They left out the bridge. That sucks! Still a great live performance.

  • its the best song ever!

    <3<3<3<3

  • I just love this man soooooo much...

    I don't know what's the fuss where... everybody knows that George Michael never uses playback...

  • he aint singing it live cause ive listened to this song bout a thousand times but makes no odds he still is the most versitile, unique, diverse, beautiful singer of our time and doesnt get enough credit for what hes done. i love u dearly george.

  • @Jacintaw61 I listened for it once - and it is clear it is live. listen to the endings of the words. and yes, I love him also... he is just an amazing performer

  • it s very best song

  • I'm in love with this song!!

  • I'm 150 % convinced that George sings entirely live here. Maybe some people find this incredible. I think we are just unbelievably blessed that such a sublime artist is still very much alive and kicking. Hope he will be for a very very very long time. George is simply AMAZING!!! I could listen to him all day and night.

  • @Nicotida07 You're entirely wrong ... but I will say it's one of the best lip syncing performances I've ever seen.

  • @mikesterSTLMO Okay, maybe, you're right I really don't care if it's lipsynch. or not. It isn't worth the discussion at all! :-) G.M. is simply a brilliant live-performer, he doesn't have to prove anything! Apart from all tha,t I keep thinking G. is singing along or something here because he has a certain body language that gives you the impression of real singing.Yeah, he's really good in everything ;-)!

  • he's beautifull

  • Guys, why all this fighting? This is indeed the (shorter) album version as recorded in the studio, perfectly matched over the images from the MTV Awards. The video was probably arranged like this in order to be played more often on MTV. But during the show, GM DID!!! sing it live. You can find the full live version also on youtube. Just search for: George Michael - Jesus To A Child (live at MTV Music Awards, 1994, Berlin)

  • why al the gay comments??? Just listen to the song idiots

  • This is 100% live ... no doubt about it !!!

  • cool song

  • the original track is longer...

  • this audio isnt the live footage

  • this IS live!

  • My heart beats more harder... I get goosebumps al over my body when I hear this song. Its so emotional.

  • whatta voice

  • beautiful lyrics,,, very emotive

  • its not playback. its live

  • grande george!!!

  • Beautiful........

  • who cares if its play back or not?? he has done a perfect job back in the studio...

  • @dewy200884 it is not play back. it is live :)

  • un génie!!! trop rare.

  • that it was and what a beautiful song it is, one of the best love/loss songs if not the best of all time it shows you how universal love is.

  • Excelente comentario, nada a decir salvo estoy plenamente de acuerdo.

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  • Beautilul voice

    great !!

  • i cant believe how many people think this is live!!! lol you idiots its NOT live!!!! he sang playback here,at the european music awards in 96 he sang full playback too(star people)

  • Absolutely!!!

  • BEAUTIFULL MUSIC!!!

  • da hat sich aber jetzt jemand das ventil ausm arsch gezogen und ordentlich druck losgelassen...nich wahr, punky ;-)

  • fuck off, you damn fool !!

  • A very chilling and beautifull song . Sung from the heart and delivered with perfection.

    George you are my Jesus ......and my GOD!

  • The album version is 7 minutes long. I know it's not a problem to re-edit, but still.

    I've seen him lipsynching many times at this kind of shows. Especially it was obvious during the Patience promotion and all those Amazing performances.

    But this one seems live to me. Once again, his voice sounds live, not as if it was pre-recorded.

  • This song wasn't re-edited at the show. It was cut by by MTV because it's too long for the broadcast.

    It's a full playback performance because it had to be presented and promoted perfectly so that audience would get the whole picture of it through the original sound recording which is considered it very common and there's nothing wrong about it.

  • I disagree. It looks and sounds live for me.

    Just listen to the "s" letters. All of them have a whistling echo, as if the were spoken to close to the mic.

    BTW, why do you think it's not?

  • I tell you why it's not. Because it is NOT!

    When you find a slightest audible difference between this and what you hear on CD, then answer me.

    As for the "s" thing. It also sounds the same.

    It sounds like that when you put an effect which is so -called (Reverb).

    Mainly it's used when a singer has a sharp accent on "s" & "f"

    Thus, it becomes friendlier and more ambient due to character of the song.

    The performence was typically promotional and that's very OK!

  • no its not. When a singer has a sharp S in his accent, they use a de-esser.

    With this song, they boosted all the SSS sounds and ran that signal thru a reverb unit. this can all be done live, so im pretty sure this is not lip sinc. But this reverb trick on the SS, that is what makes this song brilliant. I dont know ANYBODY that has a george michael album.....but EVERYBODY knows this song

  • Think what you want. If you're that pretty sure, I'm happy for you :)

  • If you're pretty sure, that's your problem.

    You don't need to explain me all this because this is my job.

    Cheers!

  • On the other hand, you'd better explain me how come he didn't keep on sounding the same or at least 80 % similirly like here throughout his last tour?

    Don't live in a fairy tale and accept the real fact within yourself , at least "wink"

  • lol, you still bitching about this?

  • toni you CLUELESS little boy,are you really so CLUELESS???????

  • RELAX.....................!

  • This is LIVE.

  • beautiful song he wrote for anselno! i was looking for that version for ages! thanks!

  • It impress me that his voice live is same of the album, wow.

  • I love gm, I love his songs, I watch most of his videos, but I truly believe this was mimed. It's so perfect to the original. If you stare at his mouth sometimes he's out on the timing. Kudos though.

  • Jesus To A Child is such a soft vocal... for a first live performance,it would be silly to perform outdoors.

    George is a musician and his own producer... he would have known not to take the risk

  • I will always say....Don't just hear George Michael....Really listen to him!!!!

    He is "Amazing") :-)

  • i am so agree with you "dont just hear him really listen to him"

  • es un tema precioso en su voz aun mas pero creo que cuando la canta recuerda a anselmo

  • WOW!!!

    Perfect! Perfect Voice!

  • Great song 5*

  • he seems totaly in the moment

  • I remember when George Michael sang this song at the MTV Music Awards in Berlin. I simply adored it... and now I still consider it his best song.

  • As i know by his interviews that was the first time that he sang this song to public thats why is playback, maybe he was too nervous to sing it live.

    For all of us that we had the luck to see him live at 25 Live we can sure tell that he still is the best on lives....Love you George

  • mi hermoso.....

  • adoro este temazzooo!!!

  • Ouch. Playback! Why George?!?!?!

  • BEAUTIFUL SONG !! FROM....HEART

  • This song is great !

  • god bless anselmo!

  • LA MEJOR BALADA EN LA HISTORIA DEL POP

  • well.. a great huge singer but this song is in playback.. sorry george...

  • So right.Playback.

  • One of the best performance of alltime through out of George'e career.... The majic of words....

  • che bravo ... ♥

  • Another brilliant performance, George. You are simply THE BEST!!!!

  • splendida

  • i love george michael.........i love him his songs the lyrics to his songs and his wonderful voice

  • Porte de Brandenbourg - Allemagne ,1994

  • five stars.great song,great singer.

  • It doesn't matter, even if it's not live!!

  • the best song

  • Sorry guyz it's not live!!

  • I love this song, it's amazing; so sad and so beautiful

  • People !!! Listen to the lyrics !! listen to the lyrics, read them !! What a words?!!!

    Im very impressed.

  • Simply the most beautiful lovesong I have ever heard... Wonderful!!

  • is anyone knows if there is a longer version of that performence ?

  • lol fucking amazing voice omg

  • That hard write feel when I listen and look on GM during this event...

  • wow his voice is so beautiful live, so pure so wonderful. It actually sounds like his cds unlike other singers. He's amazing!

  • If you think he's lipsyncing, just watch any of his 25 live videos on here or the hand to mouth rehearsals. George is just that good. Any GMfan knows this. That's part of the reason his fanbase continues to grow. He's a real talent.

  • This was his first live performance after Anselmo died.Anyone who is GM Fan can tell this is George singing "from his heart". God Bless you George. You're angels are with you. See A Different Story on you tube, DS-01,DS-02 etc if true fans wan real info.

  • ANYONE KNOW WHAT YEAR THIS WAS PERFORMED?..Thanx

  • 1984 Berlin

  • message for CholateDames

  • no 1994!

  • sorry, my mistake-only 1994!!!

  • He's that fantastic the real deal!!! I love him. He's always PERFECT!

  • He's not lip-syncing, his voice has been put through effects

  • seems a perfect sinc but the depth in his voice..the graveliness goes against the sinc!!!! i love him no matter what...he still wrote and produced it and if he sang it live he'd do it well so what point are you guys trying to make?? seems pointless???,,,

  • Unfortunately he IS NOT singing live. This is the same audio waveform as the album version. Sorry to dissappoint. George Michael is still the best male vocalist in the world though.

  • He's not lipsyncing. This was his come back performance after Anselmo died and his fight with Sony. It was the first time it was sung live. The performance became the talk because they thought he was through. Sony records had to know they made a big mistake then. He had just made the older CD. Watch his A Different Story. It on the tube somebody videod it as DS-1 thru DS-6

  • I don't think that's the original audio from that actual performance. Even a pre-recorded lip sync always has changes, this is exactly the same as the album version. Any fan knows this. If this is how it was performed then I'm disapointed, but I know he would not do that.

  • super bozi

  • he doesn't even compare, he looks like he's got a George Michael obsession, like one or two on this website, mentioning no names of course

  • Tose is better.. Much, much better!!! TOSHE FOREVER

  • are you nuts?how could you say that?

  • Maybe I am , maybe I'm not... George is great, but i dont feel what i feel when im listening Toshe... That is two different voices! Sorry for my english :)

  • What do you think about Tose Proeski's performance of this song? Check my favorites for the video!

  • Lets get this out the way, he IS lipsyncing, but I don't care. This is one of the greatest love songs ever recorded.

  • Lipsyncing?!?! You must be nuts!

    Do you think that those 30-40 pro musicians around him singing at instruments would allow that?!

  • Yes they would. You obviously don't know how music industry works man. The musisicians are paid to be there. Even if George makes lypsyncing or not.

  • yess, He is lipsyncing exceptionalli :o

  • amazing....

  • I don't understand why some people have problem if George mimed on this song. Yes he did. It's an obvious sound of a production and it had to be introduced like on a forthcoming single CD. It was produced before he had his freedom from Sony Music. He never ever sung it live this way. It's just impossible to reproduce the same sound on stage. The studio and the stage are two different worlds in character. So stop cheating yourselves and take it easy!!

  • one of the most beautiful and transcendental songs ever :)

  • This was the first ever performance of this song. It was sung only a short while after George wrote it. Watch george's 'A Different Story' :-) Oh and George miming?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! George NEVER MIMES!

  • Except in this instance.

  • machi1uk. I'm a big fan of GM and know he sings brilliantly live, but this is VERY obviously mimed. I challenge you to identify even the most minute departure from the studio recording, as is always the case with any live performance, of course.

  • the most talented singer ever seen him 8 times and let me tell u he does not mime

  • i don't care if it's live or not... that's one of the best lyrics i've ever heard....

  • i'm pretty sure it wasn't lipsyncing.According to MTV, this is one of MTV Europe music awards best 10 live performance of the decade in history (90-99). MTV was showing it again and again back in late 90's too.

  • to all the cunts that say george lypsync

    fuck yous

    george forever

  • I would say fuck you, you deaf ass!!!!

  • Guys, I have done some investigation. This song has been taken from the November 1994 MTV Video Music Awards in Berlin. He couldn't have possibly lipsynced a song which no one had heard before:)

  • Saw him live at Earls Court last month. He doesn't need to mime. He's amazing. Every song was as good as recorded version. Love him

  • I probably think the song was first sang here and George would have then shot a video for this in Dec 2005. That's why it more or less sounds similar to the Official Video version of the song...

  • Guys, how can George Lipsync a song in 1994 when the song was actually released in December 1995 for Christmas!

    I guess the audio and video are not insync in this video which creates the confusion...

  • I tell you how and the answer is too simple.

    The song had been completely produced by the beginning of 1994 and it was presented as an original version so that the audience would hear how it really sounds like, and apart from his miming, it's easy to any musician to recognize the synth strings sound that he played on the song in the studio from the real orchestra that stood on stage as a decoration. That's why it's called a Show Business!!

  • This is not live .. i suppose with a voice like his and not wanting to let down his fans on tv he has to mime now and again to give the vocals a rest.

  • This is indeed "Live" my friend. You have to appreciate the fact that this "Live" version is sung before the official version was released in December 2005

  • No :( I listened/watched carefully and it is lipped. Try playing it simultaneously with the "prerecorded" version. He naturally sings so smooth and perfect, maybe he was saving his voice. He's We still love you George- forever!!!

  • Does anybody know what scene of nip tuck this song played? I heard it was amazingly perfect.

  • is this live,u just dont know because hes that good

  • george michael has feelings as deep as the deepest ocean! so beautiful!

  • hi hot!!!!!!long time no talk.. hows the summer going??

    xxxx. lala

  • hey lala, how are you? lucky you, going to earls i hear? and your gonna see this god 2 times, oh to be so dam lucky! god bless you! xo hot!

  • God blessed this man with this damned great talent!!! Best song eva!!!

  • hey Joe just go "OUTSIDE" you know you want to but you cant say yeh!