George Michael has hit back after Elton John said in an interview that George was "in a strange place" with "a deep-rooted unhappiness" which came across in his last album. In a letter to Heat magazine George says: "Elton John knows nothing about George Michael... we have rarely spoken in the past 10 years. Most of what Elton thinks he knows about my life is pretty much limited to the gossip he hears on what you would call the 'gay grapevine' which, as you can imagine, is lovely stuff indeed. Other than that, he knows that I don't like to tour, that I smoke too much pot, and that my albums still have a habit of going to number one. In other words, he knows as much as most of my fans do".
George continued by getting a view jibes in against Elton, saying he preferred to concentrate on new material while Elton "makes millions playing those old classics day in day out".