George Michael Thanks 'Bad Bang' For Pop Career

George Michael has revealed that his pop career only started after he suffered a bad bang on the head as a child.

The singer claims that before he suffered the injury he was more into collecting insects.

"At the age of about eight I had a head injury and I know it sounds bizarre and unlikely, but it was quite a bad bang, and I had it stitched up and stuff, but all my interests changed, everything changed in six months,” Michael told the BBC.

He continued: "I had been obsessed with insects and creepy crawlies, I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up and, suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music, it just seemed a very, very strange thing.”

Making the revelation on a forthcoming edition of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Michael added: "I have a theory that maybe it was something to do with this accident, this whole left-brain right-brain thing. Nobody in my family seemed to notice but I became absolutely obsessed with music and everything changed after that."

Michael’s full interview with Kirsty Young will air on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday at 11.15am.