died George Michael, the icon of pop music and former leader of Wham! The singer had 53 years and died of a heart attack was found in the bed of his house in the countryside in South Oxfordshire. in Front of his house in London, in Highgate, is going continuous of fans in tears, bring flowers, cards, a few candles, up to the front door of the house where she lived the pop star when he was in the british capital. There are also those who leave long letters in which she recalls how the famous songs of the former Wham the have changed my life. The same is happening in the village of Goring-on-Thames, in South Oxfordshire. “Dear George, my heart is in pieces, you’re gone too soon,” writes a fan. And again: “your music and your spirit will live forever.” But also on the social media, from Twitter, to the many fans of Michael recall their benjamin, in particular under the hashtag #RIPGeorge, “George rest in peace”.
Many point out the coincidence with his most famous song, “Last Christmas”: the star is dead just the night of Christmas. George Michael had gone through many styles, and most times had ended in trouble for his excesses and for its litigation lawyers with record labels, but that was always shared with great generosity. To remember one of the gestures most sensational, gave the rich in income just Last Christmas to Band Aid, the project of Bob Geldof to bring food to the people of Ethiopia, thanks to a collection of funds based on the sales of ” Do they know it’s Christmas, sung by the stars of music, English and irish, between which the same George. The song displaced from the first place of the hit parade English just Last Christmas it became over the following years, a classic christmas songs, a must during the holidays such as the large evergreen americans, as well as still dancing with Wake me before you go-go (always 1984), even when the theme of the e vening is not about the Eighties.
George Michael became famous in the course of the ’80s, when he founded with Andrew Ridgeley in the Wham!, now in a short time a group a cult. His staff says that “died peacefully in his home”. Disaster relief – as reported by the Bbc – they arrived in the house (Goring-on-Thames, west of London near Reading) in the early afternoon. The police stated that “there are no suspicious circumstances” linked to the death of the artist. Michael, whose real name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (his father was a Greek cypriot, mother English) was born in north London and has sold over 100 million copies in a career that spanned nearly four decades. “It is with great sadness that we confirm that our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away in his home. The family asks is to respect the privacy in this difficult time,” reads the press release.
George Michael was outed in 1988, following the arrest and condemnation (80 hours of socially useful works) to conduct public be immoral: he had tried to lure what was later revealed to be a police officer in a bathroom in the park in Beverly Hills. His homosexuality was, moreover, already well known in the world of music. Among other misadventures, the arrest for driving while intoxicated in 2006 and 2010.
his career is divided into two parts, the initial one in the pair with Andrew Ridgley with which he gives life to the Charity. at that time in 1983 with the Fantastic and Make it Big in 1984. The success was enormous, the duo sells 25 million albums and conquer even the immense chinese market, with a pioneering tour over 30 years ago marked the history of music and music relationship with the east. In 1986, between the despair of the fans, divided between Wham! Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, the pair separates, celebrating the event with the release of the Final and the concert sold out at Wembley.
Dazzling also the beginning of the solo career of George Michael: in the same 1986 duet with Aretha Franklin, ushering in a series of collaborations which also include the Queen, Elton John and Luciano Pavarotti. The album Faith (1987) beats all the records with I Want your sex, which relies also on a clip forbidden to minors also remains in the history of pop music.
In the Nineties, the success can be and is also as a result of legal battles with record labels, the choices have never been easily shared by George Michael, always able to bewitch the fans as it happens in concert in 1992 at Wembley stadium in memory of Freddie Mercury. In 1997, a duet with Stevie Wonder, and in 1998, in the collection ” Ladies and Gentlemen – The Best of George Michael, is also the irony about his misadventure with the cop of Beverly Hills.
April 7, 1998 made headlines around the world when he was arrested for immoral conduct in a public bathroom in a park in Beverly Hills. The singer was arrested by a plain-clothes policeman of public morals, Marcelo Rodriguez, with the accusation of having made explicit sexual proposals. After pleading ” no contest, Michael was fined us $ 810 and sentenced to 80 hours of community service. After that accident, finally, George made the so-called coming out, i.e. publicly declared his homosexuality, and he returned to the limelight with the provocative video for “Outside”, where a couple of cops having sex in a bathroom.
In the new millennium, she sings with Whitney Houston, Elton John and Luciano Pavarotti and attacks, in music, the choices of Bush and Blair who are doing the route with the armies to Iraq. In 2006, again with the 25 Live tour 42 countries, with stops in Milan, Padua, Lucca, and Rome (2007).
thus, We come to 2011 with the new Symphonica tour, which sees him sing accompanied by a symphonic orchestra. Applause also during the closing ceremony of the London olympic Games in 2012. And finally, in 2014, the album Symphonica, which contains all her hits. There are a total of five studio albums, three live albums, two compilations and six world tours for a mark on music that will not fade ever.
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