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Today, April 11, 2024 we celebrate the 36th anniversary of the song “One More Try”.
“One More Try” is a song recorded by George from his debut solo studio album, “Faith” (1987). It was released on April 11, 1988.

As George told Countdown in 1988, “One More Try” was written, recorded and finished within eight hours.

He said: “I think this is the best thing I’ve ever done. It’s certainly my best vocal. I actually wrote the whole thing from start to finish in eight hours. We recorded it the same day.
What happened was I was working on another song which was going disastrously then this just came out. I don’t find ‘One More Try’ hard to listen to the way I did ‘A Different Corner’.It’s more engaging. When I wrote ‘A Different Corner’ I was still in the middle of feeling that way about the relationship while ‘One More Try’ is after I decided…”.

The song was the fourth of seven singles to be released from George’s debut solo album Faith.
This wonderful ballad lyrically explores a young man’s hesitancy to enter/revisit a new relationship because he had been emotionally hurt so many times previously. The song concludes with temptation taking over, and George ends by singing the title for the only time.
“One More Try” remained a live favourite at George’s concerts in the years which followed.
Filmmaker Tony Scott (“Top Gun”) directed the simple music video for the song, which features George singing alone in an empty room.

The first shot of the video alone lasts a little over two minutes, ending at the beginning of the second verse. Throughout, a grey-blue light can be seen shining into his window, a metaphor for loneliness. In another scene, he attempts to draw a heart on his bathroom cabinet’s glass door, but cannot finish the heart, as at this point, sadness and grief have taken over. His furniture can also be seen with drapes over each piece, as well as the curtains drawn, another lonely metaphor.

The video was filmed at The Carrington Hotel in New South Wales, Australia, which was empty and derelict at the time.

We all love “One More Try”, a fabulous and emotional song that George sings with his incredible, wonderful and perfect voice!

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