George Michael - The Life: 1963-2016
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George Michael - The Life: 1963-2016

The Man, The Legend, The Music

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George Michael - The Life: 1963-2016

The Man, The Legend, The Music

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'I WENT THROUGH A LONG PERIOD WHERE I WAS AFRAID OF DOING THINGS I WANTED TO DO, AND YOU GET YOUR COURAGE BACK, WHICH IS WHAT'S IMPORTANT' – GEORGE MICHAEL
Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, George Michael was raised in a family of Greek Cypriot immigrants in North London, and dreamed of stardom when he was a little boy. At just twelve years old he met Andrew Ridgeley and the two of them went on to achieve stunning success in the early 1980s with Wham!, creating music that remains popular to this day.
Yet despite the enormous success of Wham!, George wanted more, and so set about recreating himself as a serious solo artist, reaching heights of even greater success. Ironically, however, even from the early days he was plagued with insecurity about his sexuality, which, combined with the calamity of losing his first lover to AIDS and his mother to cancer, plunged him into a lifelong struggle with drug addiction. He died, at the tragically early age of just fifty three, on Christmas Day 2016.
George Michael's life and career brought him international fame, and his sudden and unexpected death shocked the world. His unrivalled popularity as an artist, however, and the music he made, have turned him into one of the immortal greats of pop music. As Emily Herbert shows in this new biography, his legacy is not just his music, but his many extraordinary, and often anonymous, acts of charity.

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Publisher
John Blake
Year
2017
ISBN
9781786064714
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. 1: DEATH OF AN ICON
  6. 2: THE LITTLE GREEK BOY
  7. 3: WHAM, BAM, I AM A MAN
  8. 4: GUILTY FEET HAVE GOT NO RHYTHM
  9. 5: CONQUERING CHINA
  10. 6: GOING SOLO
  11. 7: SOMETIMES THE CLOTHES DO NOT MAKE THE MAN
  12. 8: LOVE AND TRAGEDY
  13. 9: COMING OUT (PART ONE)
  14. 10: COMING OUT (PART TWO)
  15. 11: THE PROTEST SINGER
  16. 12: A MUCH-LOVED MAN
  17. 13: DARKNESS FALLS
  18. 14: FRIENDS AND FALL-OUTS
  19. 15: THE SINGING GREEK – GEORGE REMEMBERED
  20. PLATES
  21. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  22. COPYRIGHT