The former Wham! star was airlifted to hospital with cuts and bruises after a horror road accident on the M1 motorway north of London on Thursday. Police have launched a probe into the incident and details of how George came to be injured have not been revealed, but now an eye-witness has come forward to suggest George fell from an open door of the vehicle as it travelled at high speed. Motorist Katherine Fox was driving her Mini car along the same stretch of highway when she saw the bloodied and shocked star sprawled in the road. She tells The Sun newspaper, "There was a nasty cut on his forehead and the back of his head. There was blood all down his face and on his teeth. He was breathing and conscious but in shock... I asked what had gone on and was told he tried to open the car door and shut it again because it wasn't shut properly and apparently fell out at 70mph. "I was on the phone to the ambulance and said, 'You'd better come quick. This doesn't look good'. George was wearing a black and gold Adidas tracksuit that was ripped all down the arm and shoulder. He had no trainers on... His sunglasses were also in the road... I think George was lucky he didn't die."

Jon Bon Jovi "Blessed" that Band's Songs Are Part of the "Patchwork of Pop Culture"

Bon Jovi is currently out on the European leg of its Because We Can world tour, and the band has still got a long way to go. After Europe, the New Jersey rockers play the U.K., then return to the U.S. for summer stadium dates, and then they head to Brazil and Australia. But no matter where the band plays, the one thing that strikes Jon Bon Jovi about the fans in the audience every night is their ages: young, old and everything in between.

Describing Bon Jovi fans as "multi-generational," Jon tells ABC News Radio that he's proud of the group's broad appeal, especially since they've been making records for decades."We've been around for 30 years and we're doing the kind of business that we do out on the road...we're very lucky. We're very blessed," he says, adding, "I think this is that kind of a band that has crossed to a place where the songs are both your parents' songs and your songs."

Attempting to explain this concept, Jon points to The Rolling Stones, who, of course, have been around a lot longer than Bon Jovi, but whose tunes also have staying power. "Those songs are just a part of the patchwork of what is pop culture. And you just think that they've always been around and that band has always been around," Jon tells ABC News Radio. "And so we've been around long enough that songs like 'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Wanted Dead or Alive'... those are
in the vernacular now. They're just a part of the patchwork of pop culture. And your mom might know it as well as you do because it's been on the radio for 27 years."

Long reluctant to publish his life story, Burt Bacharach has finally done so. The iconic tunesmith takes the title of one of the many songs he and lyricist Hal David gave Dionne Warwick -- Anyone Who Had a Heart -- to weave through a still thriving 60-year career writing, arranging and conducting pop music. Make no mistake, it's pop -- not rock -- with a splash of soul. Not surprising for someone whose '60s success began by crafting hits for The Drifters and Chuck Jackson.

Burt Bacharach says he never liked rock and roll -- he's always been into R&B and soul -- although his music has always been played on the same stations.
Being overlooked by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn't bother him at all -- even if many of the artists he worked with such as Gene Pitney, The Shirelles, Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield -- have been inducted.

Anyone Who Had a Heart does more than retrace Burt's hit parade. His candid stories are often set up, documentary style, by comments from his ex-wives. He and Angie Dickinson were a show biz "power couple" during the '60s before their split. Artists he's worked with also chime in.

Burt says, "I made a deal with myself -- if I was going to do this book, it's going to be open -- the blemishes, the pimples, I'm not going to smooth them over. Otherwise [the book] is useless."

From Angie to "Arthur" and Austin Powers, Perry Como to Painted From Memory (his acclaimed collaboration with Elvis Costello), meet the man behind the melody.