Spinning the Wheel

"Spinning the Wheel"
Single by George Michael
from the album Older
B-side
  • "You Know That I Want To"
  • "Safe"
Released19 August 1996 (1996-08-19)[1]
Genre
Length6:22
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)
  • George Michael
  • Jon Douglas
Producer(s)
  • George Michael
  • Jon Douglas
George Michael singles chronology
"Fastlove"
(1996) 		"Spinning the Wheel"
(1996) 		"Older" / "I Can't Make You Love Me"
(1997)
Music video
"Spinning the Wheel" on YouTube

"Spinning the Wheel" is a song by English singer-songwriter George Michael. The song was co-written and co-produced by Michael and Jon Douglas. It was released on Virgin Records as the third single from Michael's third studio album, Older (1996), and depicts the worry of a lover whose partner is sexually promiscuous during the period when AIDS was newly discovered and rampant in the West.[2] The song peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, kept off the top by the Spice Girls' "Wannabe". The single also peaked within the top 10 in Denmark, Hungary, Italy, and Spain where it spent 3 consecutive weeks at #1. The accompanying music video was directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton.

"Spinning the Wheel" subsequently appeared on both of George Michael's compilations Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael and Twenty Five.

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 17 August 1996. p. 35. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  2. ^ "George Michael on open relationships". Attitude. Retrieved 10 July 2022.