Billboard reporter Barry Walters explained in 2017, "'Father Figure' allowed George to celebrate forbidden desires without ...

George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou ... with tracks like "Faith," "I Want Your Sex," and "Father Figure" pushing the boundaries of pop music and his personal expression.

I learnt from George Michael how to deal with all that. He was an angel to me. He protected me from the minute we met. He'd lost his mother, I'd lost my father. "And he was someone I could talk to ...