George Michael: A Life

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His ego must have been bruised, at least? “I like to think I have a minimal ego. But it was difficult. It did feel uncomfortable to put aside that aspect of my creativity, but I understood the context in which it was being done.” He sounds so rational. No existential angst? “I don’t do existential angst,” he says with a laugh. “My feelings weren’t hurt, but it was difficult, it was uncomfortable, because it reduced my input into Wham!. We started off writing songs together – that had always underpinned music-making.”

The one thing they did take seriously was the music. Later, when Michael recorded Careless Whisper for their second album at the Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama, he didn’t like it, and rerecorded it in London. “So we knew what we were doing [in terms of] writing and making records.” a b c "Troubled personal life of pop superstar George Michael". Sky News. 27 December 2016 . Retrieved 27 December 2016.

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a b c d e f g h i j k l George Michael Album & Song Chart History Billboard. Retrieved 21 April 2011

The very thing Michael despised in life, the incessant scrutiny of the press and their relentless judgement of him, ends up superseding all else in Gavin’s biography. Of course, addiction was a part of Michael’s life and it’s a tragedy that bears recounting, but not at the expense of the very thing that endeared him to millions – his transcendent talent and his refusal to compromise his artistic vision. Michael was "tortured" throughout a lot of his life, Gavin says. "I came to discover, George had gotten a lot less joy out of being George Michael than we had gotten out of George being George Michael. And that is the case of so many superstar lives." In 2012, Michael entered a relationship with Fadi Fawaz, a Lebanese-Australian celebrity hairstylist and freelance photographer based in London. [180] [181] It was Fawaz who found Michael's body on Christmas morning 2016. [182] [183] Legal troubles A year later on April 7, 1985, Wham! made history as the first Western pop group to perform in China.a b Rubiner, Julia (1993). Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music, Volume 9. Gale Research, Incorporated. p.169. As a solo artist George Michael has been hailed as a leading creative force in popular songwriting. With fame approaching, Michael decided to change his name from the intimidating Georgios Panayiotou to the more accessible George Michael. Continuing his musical evolution, Michael incorporated soulful and jazz elements into his songs on Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 (1990). The album featured a few hits, including "Praying for Time." Further distancing himself from his pop image, he chose not to star in the video for "Freedom 90." Instead, the video featured such models as Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford. Solo Career Elton John says George Michael died because he was uncomfortable being gay: 'He did not want to be here' George Michael (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)