His music was so much a part of my growing up, really respected him as an artist. I loved the MTV unplugged performance. Check it out on YouTube if you haven't seen it - his voice was so incredible! RIP GM
Singer George Michael is Dead
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I'm currently watching this. MTVClassic is playing George Michael's Unplugged appearance right now!
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This is just the saddest news ever and I have been so upset since last night.
I am in my 40s and Wham! and George Michael has been music I have listened to since I was at least 10 years old. I remember, it must have been at least 30 years ago now, that I got the 'Choose LIFE' shirt as a Christmas gift - the same one George Michaels and Andrew Ridgeley wore on the video "Wake me up before you go-go". I remember that Christmas was so much fun; dancing around to that song and playing it over and over on our tape recorder (lol) with my sisters and cousins. I can't believe that 30 years later, George Michaels is in my memory at Christmas, but now for his untimely death. Just an hour before I heard of his passing, we were playing the song "Last Christmas" and I was thinking about how beautiful and soulful his voice is and how much I missed hearing George Michael songs. This is so sad. RIP George you will be missed and thank you for your music that will live on forever.
I am in my 40s and Wham! and George Michael has been music I have listened to since I was at least 10 years old. I remember, it must have been at least 30 years ago now, that I got the 'Choose LIFE' shirt as a Christmas gift - the same one George Michaels and Andrew Ridgeley wore on the video "Wake me up before you go-go". I remember that Christmas was so much fun; dancing around to that song and playing it over and over on our tape recorder (lol) with my sisters and cousins. I can't believe that 30 years later, George Michaels is in my memory at Christmas, but now for his untimely death. Just an hour before I heard of his passing, we were playing the song "Last Christmas" and I was thinking about how beautiful and soulful his voice is and how much I missed hearing George Michael songs. This is so sad. RIP George you will be missed and thank you for your music that will live on forever.
NEWS
READ PRINCE’S 1994 MESSAGE OF SUPPORT FOR GEORGE MICHAEL
In a 1994 magazine interview with Q Magazine, Prince addressed the subject of George Michael’s ongoing court case with “astonishing regularity and persistence”.
Michael was fighting a case against Sony, in a bid to be freed from his longstanding recording contract. In the 1980’s, Michael referred to his situation as “professional slavery”.
Prince references the case in the 1994 interview, showing his support for Michael’s bid for freedom before revealing that the pair speak. Read the excerpt below.
He mentions George Michael’s court case for the first time. It’s a subject he’ll return to with astonishing regularity and persistence. At one point, he almost shouts, “Why can’t George Michael do what he wants? Why can’t he write a ballet if he wants to?” What he is talking about is artistic freedom and its place in the future. By the end of the rant, and it is a rant, I suggest that he should get in touch with George Michael as he might find such supportive words encouraging. “Oh,” he says breezily. “We speak.”
The full interview with Prince has been archived via the prince.org fan forum. Read more tributes and memories about George Michael from peers and admirers here.
The prince article is too long to post..U have to go to their site to read.
So sad to hear this. He was one of my favorites!
I was lucky enough to get to see him live a few years ago in Vancouver BC. It was such a fun show! Such great energy from both him and the crowd with everyone singing along. He really had a great way with the audience.
He played one of my favorite songs of his that night - Fantasy - which I believe was a B side to Freedom '90. Everyone went crazy when he sang that song (including me!) as it was so unexpected that he would play it! Such a magical night and I feel so lucky to have had it.
I was lucky enough to get to see him live a few years ago in Vancouver BC. It was such a fun show! Such great energy from both him and the crowd with everyone singing along. He really had a great way with the audience.
He played one of my favorite songs of his that night - Fantasy - which I believe was a B side to Freedom '90. Everyone went crazy when he sang that song (including me!) as it was so unexpected that he would play it! Such a magical night and I feel so lucky to have had it.
This is ABSOLUTE GOLD.❤ Video from 1992 of George Michael singing the hell out of Somebody To Love (with the remaining members of Queen backing him) in rehearsal for the Freddie Mercury tribute concert as David Bowie and Seal dance along. ❤❤❤
This is absolutely brilliant! Oh.... his voice! [emoji173][emoji173][emoji173]
I still can't believe he's gone [emoji17]
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Some of my own pictures that I took at one of the shows I went to. My heart hurts that he won't be on stage again [emoji22]
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Some of my own pictures that I took at one of the shows I went to. My heart hurts that he won't be on stage again [emoji22]
But he was also having problems with drug use recently, too.
When You're a drug addict, it will wear out your major organs like the heart. So, I wouldn't be too surprised if heart failure will be cause of his death.
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I saw something that said that he had been taken to the hospital due to his heroin use.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...h/news-story/884d29365828e35cefd09dc4cc9edefb