Too Funky

"Too Funky"
Single by George Michael
from the album Red Hot + Dance
B-side"Crazy Man Dance"
Released1 June 1992 (1992-06-01)[1]
GenreDance-pop
Length
  • 5:37 (album version)
  • 3:45 (single edit)
  • 3:58 (video edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)George Michael
Producer(s)George Michael
George Michael singles chronology
"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
(1991)
"Too Funky"
(1992)
"Somebody to Love"
(1993)
Music video
"Too Funky" on YouTube

"Too Funky" is a song written and performed by English singer and songwriter George Michael and released by Columbia Records in the United States and Epic Records elsewhere in 1992. The song was Michael's final single for his recording contract with Sony Music before he started legal action to extricate himself from it.

"Too Funky" had been initially earmarked for a follow-up to the album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 but Michael shelved the idea, instead donating it, along with two other songs, to the project Red Hot + Dance (1992), which raised money for AIDS awareness. Michael subsequently donated the royalties to the same cause. The song never appeared on any of Michael's studio albums, although later it was included on his first solo collection, Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael (1998), and in the 2017 reissue of Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, which also included the two other songs from Red Hot + Dance and its B-side "Crazy Man Dance", all of which were recorded for the aborted follow-up of the 1990 album. It reached number one in Denmark and became a top-10 hit in several regions, including Europe, Australia, and North America.

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 30 May 1992. p. 21. Retrieved 20 June 2021.