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George Michael
George Michael was an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. Michael was widely recognised as a creative force in songwriting, vocal performance, and visual presentation. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. The Radio Academy named him the most played artist on British radio…
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entertainment · English singer-songwriter (1963–2016) · singer-songwriter · multi-instrumentalist · record producer · singer · songwriter · lyricist · composer · recording artist · television actor · film director · also George Michael, Michael
Born 25 June 1963 · Died 25 December 2016 · Q130311
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2026· 24 entries
“led me to believe I was on the path to heterosexuality”
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“It was terrifying news. I thought I could have the disease too. I couldn”
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“I am British, I live here, I pay my taxes, and I”
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WFLX: Michael Caruso child sex abuse case prompts discussion on warning signs of abuse and prevention
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CBS News: Suspended Palm Beach clerk of courts Michael Caruso remains jailed after arrest on child sex abuse charges
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Investing.com España: El director de Bakkt, Michael Alfred, adquiere 2,11 millones de dólares en Acciones ordinarias Clase A
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Substack: Show Up Like You Already Have the Job: Michael Keaton’s Lesson in Leadership
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Goal: ¿Cuál es la próxima prioridad de Michael Carrick? El Manchester United se acerca a una estrella de la Premier League por 60 millones de libras
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Published video “George covering Chaka Khan’s ‘Ain’t Nobody’ during his Rock in Rio set in 1991 🎤✨”.
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Published video “Currently on repeat 🔂 George and Whitney's duet - 'If I Told You that' ✨”.
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The Guardian: Are Manchester United returning to relevance under Michael Carrick? | Jonathan Wilson
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Published video “George rehearsing 'Star People' for MTV Unplugged, 1996🌟”.
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Published video “George talking about performing 'Heal The Pain' with Paul McCartney✨”.
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The Guardian: Careless whispers: what really happened between George Michael and Lindsay Anderson? The Wham! movie producer reveals all
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Published video “42 years ago, George released his first solo single - 'Careless Whisper'. A timeless classic 🎷”.
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The Guardian: ‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project
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Published video “Freedom! '90 for MTV's 10th Anniversary special, 1991🕺”.
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Published video “George reminiscing about WHAM!'s final show at Wembley Stadium, 1986🇬🇧”.
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Published video “Fastlove, Pt.1 - Live from Earls Court, 2008”.
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Published video “Love’s in Need of Love Today from the Faith Tour production rehearsals in Holland ✨ #TheFaithTour”.
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Published video “George Michael - I Want Your Sex (feat. Mosimann - Edit - Official Audio)”.
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The Guardian: Tonight the Music Seems So Loud by Sathnam Sanghera review – a heartbreaking portrait of George Michael
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The Guardian: Long lost George Michael film and live album set for release later this year
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: My cultural awakening: Faith by George Michael gave me permission to go to my first sex party
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Royal Mint unveils commemorative George Michael coins
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2023· 4 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2023).
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Released album “Live in Rio”.
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Michael was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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And it hit number one again at Christmas in 2024, making it the first song to top the Christmas chart in consecutive years, and become only the third song to top the festive chart more than once after Queen's "Bohemian R
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2021· 1 entry
Following legal proceedings, the trustees of Michael's estate entered into a financial settlement with Goss
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2020· 1 entry
Michael was commemorated with a mural in his native borough of Brent
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “Last Christmas: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Michael was named as the greatest artist of all time by Smooth Radio
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The Emma Thompson-written film Last Christmas was released
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged”.
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Released album “In Memory of George Michael”.
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2016· 5 entries
Died 2016-12-25.
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Published video “Michael Gove - British Rapper”.
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“I have to be honest here, I'm not really interested in selling records to people who are homophobic. I don't need the approval of people who don't approve of me.”
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At his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
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Jeung reacted to Michael's death by calling him a "true friend" with whom she had spent "some of the best time of [her] life"
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2015· 1 entry
Was ranked 45th in Billboard's list of the "Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time"
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2014· 3 entries
Released album “Symphonica”.
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In 2014, Michael stated that he had refrained from using cannabis for one and one half years.
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Michael stated that he had refrained from using cannabis for one and one half years
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2013· 2 entries
Published video “Happy Christmas From George Michael - You've Changed”.
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Published video “Happy Christmas From George Michael”.
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2012· 9 entries
Published video “George Michael - Song to the Siren”.
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Published video “George Michael - White Light (Behind the Scenes)”.
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Released ep “White Light (Remixes)”.
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Published video “George Michael - White Light (Trailer)”.
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Published video “George Michael White Light (Jackman & Thomas White Light Vocal Remix)”.
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Published video “George Michael White Light (Stereogamous Remix)”.
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Published video “George Michael White Light (Steven Redant & Phil Romano Divine Vox Remix)”.
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Published video “George Michael White Light (Voodoo Sonics Remix Edit)”.
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Michael entered a relationship with Fadi Fawaz, a Lebanese-Australian celebrity hairstylist and freelance photographer based in London
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2011· 1 entry
Michael fell into a coma after developing pneumonia, but recovered
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Live in London”.
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Released ep “December Song (I Dreamed of Christmas)”.
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2008· 4 entries
Released album “Acoustic Show: Three Day Before MTV Unplugged”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Speaking about the loss of Feleppa, Michael said: "It was a terribly depressing time
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“s legalisation of same-sex marriage, calling the move”
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2007· 4 entries
Michael said he had hidden his sexuality because of worries over what effect it might have on his mother
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Pleaded guilty to drug-impaired driving after obstructing the road at traffic lights in Cricklewood in northwest London, and was subsequently banned from driving for two years and sentenced to community service
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Michael said "that hiding his sexuality made him feel 'fraudulent', and his eventual outing, when he was arrested [
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Michael sent the £1,450,000 piano that John Lennon used to write "Imagine" around the United States on a "peace tour", displaying at places where notable acts of violence had taken place, such as Dallas' Dealey Plaza, wh
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Twenty Five”.
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Michael embarked on his first tour in 15 years, 25 Live
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Michael performed a free concert for NHS nurses in London to thank the nurses who had cared for his late mother
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2004· 6 entries
Released album “Patience”.
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Michael said, "I used to sleep with women quite a lot in the Wham
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It was critically acclaimed and went to No
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Released album “George Michael MTV Unplugged”.
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“I used to sleep with women quite a lot in the Wham! days but never felt it could develop into a relationship because I knew that, emotionally, I was a gay man. I didn”
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“I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.”
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “The Rest Of... 2”.
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Paired up with Ronan Keating on the UK edition of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
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Released album “Rare & Remixed 1”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Panpipes Play George Michael”.
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2000· 4 entries
Michael joined Melissa Etheridge, Garth Brooks, Queen Latifah, Pet Shop Boys, and k
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Released album “Totally Funked Up”.
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Released album “TV History 2000”.
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Michael recorded the hit single "If I Told You That" with Whitney Houston
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “Songs From the Last Century”.
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Brought a US$10 million court case in California against Michael
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Released album “Greatest Hits ’99”.
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Songs from the Last Century is a studio album of cover tracks
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“falling in love with a man that ended his conflict over bisexuality”
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael”.
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And was an active LGBTQ rights campaigner and HIV/AIDS charity fundraiser
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Not long after he was outed for his sexuality, Michael said on Parkinson that he became confident he was gay when he fell in love with a man
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“that hiding his sexuality made him feel”
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded BRIT Awards (1997).
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Released album “Unplugged”.
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Released album “Gold”.
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Released album “Free For Love”.
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1996· 9 entries
Released album “Older”.
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Released album “Best Ballads”.
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Michael was voted Best British Male at the MTV Europe Music Awards and the Brit Awards; and at the British Academy's Ivor Novello Awards, he was awarded the title of Songwriter of the Year for the third time
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Released album “Greatest Ballads”.
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Michael entered into a long-term relationship with Kenny Goss, a former flight attendant, cheerleading coach, and sportswear executive from Dallas, Texas
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Released ep “The Older EP”.
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Released ep “The Spinning the Wheel E.P.”.
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“It was a terribly depressing time. It took about three years to grieve, then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.”
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Released album “Unplugged: Live At The BBC Radio Theater”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “The Very Best”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released ep “Five Live”.
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Feleppa died of an AIDS-related brain haemorrhage
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1991· 3 entries
Awarded BRIT Awards (1991).
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Michael embarked on the Cover to Cover tour in Japan, England, the US, and Brazil, where he performed at Rock in Rio
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Michael established a relationship with Anselmo Feleppa, a Brazilian dress designer whom he had met at the Rock in Rio concert in January that year
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “Listen Without Prejudice, Volume 1”.
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Michael released an autobiography through Penguin Books titled Bare, co-written with Tony Parsons
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Told his record company Sony that, for his next album, he did not want to do promotions like the one for Faith
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist (1989).
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Awarded Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist (1989).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Album for Faith (1989).
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1988· 7 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for I Want Your Sex (1988).
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Awarded BRIT Awards (1988).
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Awarded Grammy Awards for Faith (1988).
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Released album “Faith Tour”.
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Michael embarked on a world tour, the Faith Tour
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For Best R&B Performance – Duo or Group with Vocal for the song
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Michael participated in the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium in London together with many other singers (such as Annie Lennox and Sting), performing "Sexual Healing"
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Faith”.
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1986· 2 entries
After releasing a farewell single, "The Edge of Heaven" and a farewell compilation, The Final (their third album Music from the Edge of Heaven was released in North America and Japan), plus a sell-out concert at Wembley
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Michael took part in the Prince's Trust charity concert held at Wembley Arena, performing "Everytime You Go Away" alongside Paul Young
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded BRIT Awards (1985).
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Michael received the first of his three Ivor Novello Awards for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors
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1984· 2 entries
And performed at the following year's Live Aid concert
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(behind Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas
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1983· 1 entry
And produced a series of top 10 singles including "Young Guns", "Wham Rap
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1971· 1 entry
And was a protest against the Vietnam War
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-06-25.
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