For the generation that grew up with “Faith” blasting from car radios — and for the Gen-Z kids who discovered George Michael through their parents’ vinyl collections — Friday is about to be a very good day.

George Michael Entertainment and Sony Music are releasing “The Faith Tour,” a live album arriving worldwide this Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. All 18 tracks are previously unreleased, captured May 30–31, 1988, at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy during the Faith Tour — George Michael’s first-ever solo world tour, per Ad Hoc News.

Let the scale of that tour sink in: 109 concerts across 16 countries, and the second-highest-grossing tour of 1988 at $17.7 million. This was George Michael at the absolute peak of his powers — the Faith era, when he was arguably the biggest pop star on the planet. These Paris recordings bottle that lightning.

The track list reads like a greatest-hits fever dream: “Faith,” “Father Figure,” “One More Try,” “Monkey,” “Careless Whisper” — plus the Wham! classics “Everything She Wants” and “I’m Your Man.” And because this is George Michael, the set also reaches for Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s In Need of Love Today” and Labelle’s “Lady Marmalade.” Hearing these songs live, in full 1988 glory, is the closest any of us will ever get to standing in that arena.

The release comes loaded with formats for every kind of collector: vinyl, a picture disc, CD, an audio Blu-ray, and a deluxe box set pairing the full concert on 3LP + 2CD with a 136-page book of unseen tour images. Yes — 136 pages of never-before-seen photos from the tour that defined an era.

And the celebration doesn’t stop with the album. The companion concert film “George Michael: The Faith Tour” premiered Oct. 27 at BFI IMAX in London and lands in cinemas Nov. 11, per Sortiraparis — restored for the big screen so you can experience the Paris shows the way they deserve. For the full backstory on the tour and the film, Wikipedia has the complete rundown.

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Whether you were there in ’88 or you’re just discovering him now, Friday’s release is a time machine to the night pop music belonged to George Michael. Turn it up loud.

Bottom line: this isn’t just another reissue with a fresh coat of paint. It’s 18 unheard performances from the biggest tour of George Michael’s solo career, pressed across every format a collector could want and paired with a concert film hitting theaters five days later. Clear your Friday — and your shelf space.

Photo: Frantogian, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons