George Michael: The biography

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George Michael – Twentyfive CD Album Archived 17 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine CD Universe, 28 November 2006. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. In 1986, Michael took part in the Prince's Trust charity concert held at Wembley Arena, performing " Everytime You Go Away" alongside Paul Young. In the same interview, he added: "If I wasn't with Kenny [his boyfriend at the time], I would have sex with women, no question". In private, however, George was engaging in ever more reckless sexual encounters, cruising for sex in whatever city he happened to find himself in.

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Those charities included Childline (to whom he had donated "millions"), [242] [218] the Terrence Higgins Trust, and Macmillan Cancer Support. Among his favourites was " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", a 1974 song by Elton John; Michael and John had performed the song together at the Live Aid concert in 1985, and again for Michael's concert at London's Wembley Arena on 25 March 1991, where the duet was recorded. In March 2017, a senior coroner in Oxfordshire attributed Michael's death to natural causes due to dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and a fatty liver. George’s PR team provided a string of ‘girlfriends’ including actress Brooke Shields and model Kathy Jeung to protect his sex symbol image.Michael cited Cassidy as a major career influence and interviewed Cassidy for David Litchfield's Ritz Newspaper. Good Morning Britain viewers demand Richard Madeley be dropped as he asks guest who lost 21 relatives when their house was bombed in Gaza: 'How close were you to your brothers? In 2003, he paired up with Ronan Keating on the UK edition of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I decided I had to stop, which I did when I began to worry about AIDS, which was becoming prevalent in Britain. Michael donated the royalties from "Last Christmas" to Band Aid and subsequently sang with Elton John at Live Aid (the Band Aid charity concert) in 1985.

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Michael performed " '39", " These Are the Days of Our Lives" with Lisa Stansfield and " Somebody to Love". Yet, seemingly afraid of the publicity it might generate, George did not travel to be with his dying lover, something that haunted him ‘to his dying day’. The first single of the album, " Outside", was a humorous song making a reference to his arrest for soliciting a policeman in a public toilet. Michael sang "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" with Elton John at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in London on 13 July 1985. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.It held this position until 1997 when it was overtaken by Elton John's " Candle in the Wind 1997", released in tribute to Princess Diana following her death Michael also attended Diana's funeral with Elton John.

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Michael's smoldering stare and perfect grin were splayed across every tween, teen, and music magazine in existence, and there appeared to be no stopping his success. A post-mortem examination found that he died of heart and liver problems, and the coroner said no inquest was needed.

Queen of Halloween dresses up as a PEACOCK with 10-person entourage while her husband rolls up as an EGG. He has been showered with awards and has also played some of the music industry's biggest and most important concerts in history, including Live Aid, and most recently when he opened the newly completed Wembley Stadium in June 2007, with a spectacular sell out show. In 2007, Michael said he had hidden his sexuality because of worries over what effect it might have on his mother.