at the MTV Europe Awards and the BRITs; and at The Ivor Novello Awards, he was awarded the prestigious title of 'Songwriter of The Year' for the third time. At the beginning of October 1996, George performed his first live shows for five years with a gig for Radio 1 FM followed by an Unplugged Session for MTV. The Radio 1FM audience consisted of just 200 people and the MTV Unplugged session slightly larger at 500. Both audiences included competition winners, some of whom had flown to London from all over the world, as well as various specially invited guests. Re-releases The album was re-released on 1 December 1997 in a CD box set titled Older & Upper including two discs, both in gold (instead of the original black from Older): the original album; an extra disc, titled Upper, packaged in a cardboard sleeve with the same cover as the box (which was a close-up of Michael's green eye from the original Older album). Alongside interactive elements, the Upper compact disc includes six tracks previously released on the singles from the album, notably featuring a version of "Fastlove (Part II)", only found on the second "Fastlove" promo single as "Fully Extended Mix – edit", differing both from the one included on the "Fastlove" single (running at 9:27) and from the edited version (4:39) included on the first "Fastlove" promo. When released, Older & Upper was not listed in the UK charts as a different album than the original Older, and helped the album to jump from No. 65 to No. 36 during the competitive Christmas season. The album received a remastered expanded edition reissue on September 30, 2022, comprising the original Older album, the Upper disc and three bonus CDs, containing remixes and live recordings of Older-era tracks. The album charted at number 2 on the UK Official Albums Chart Top 100 on 7 October 2022. Track listing All tracks written and produced by George Michael, except where noted. Personnel George Michael – lead vocals, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, programming, arranger, producer Hugh Burns – guitar Danny Jacob – guitar Alan Ross – guitar John Themis – guitar David Austin – keyboards Chris Cameron – keyboards, strings David Clews – keyboards Nick Murdoch – piano Jon Douglas – keyboards, producer , arranger Jo Garland – backing vocals David Clayton – programming Pete Gleadall – programming Steve McNichol – programming