George Michael: The biography

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Despite knowing he wanted to pursue music at an early age, Michael didn't make his desires known to his father right away. In an interview with Event Magazine before his death, Michael said, "Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing." His father was known to be distant and cold and had difficulties accepting his son's sexual identity as he got older.

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Kelly Ripa is pretty in pink as Barbie and her husband Mark Consuelos dons stripes as Ken for their Halloween special on Live With Kelly & Mark The broad contours of George Michael’s life (1963-2016) in the spotlight are well known to pop-culture fans. In this detailed, evenhanded biography, Gavin, biographer of Chet Baker, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne, puts those moments into context and offers explanations for Michael’s often confusing actions. As the charismatic, swaggering frontman of Wham! and then the multiplatinum solo superstar behind Faith and its string of hits, Michael seemed unstoppable in the 1980s. “I’m 21 years old and I’m not saying this to brag, but I’ve achieved more as a performer, writer, and producer than anyone else ever has by the same age,” Michael said early in his winning streak. However, in pop culture, the highs rarely last—especially, as Gavin points out, when the star is a closeted man, taunting both competitors and the media. “He had set himself a dangerous trap,” Gavin writes. “He wanted to titillate with sex and keep his secrets untouched.” From there, Michael’s problems only multiplied. The love of his life died from AIDS, his drug addiction intensified and expanded beyond marijuana, and his sexual adventures got him arrested in a public restroom in Los Angeles. To his credit, Gavin handles Michael’s problematic years as equitably as the storybook ones. When the facts are inconclusive, as they are surrounding Michael’s death in 2016, Gavin makes sure to say so:“Had he, in fact, committed suicide? Perhaps not consciously, despite prior efforts. But anyone who remembered Michael’s belief that he had set himself up passive-aggressively to be outed in 1998 had cause to wonder if he had taken steps to set his own death in motion.” Though some of the author’s descriptions of the 1980s music scene are only serviceable, his first-rate reporting makes this biography sing. Lorraine Kelly shares her devastation as young ITV team member battles terminal cancer two months after welcoming a baby boy: 'We are all deeply saddened'I was happier than I’ve ever been in my entire life. Fame, money, all the things you know. Everything else just kind of paled by comparison,” he told Attitude years later. "To finally at 27 years old, wak[e] ... up in bed with someone who loves you. ... Anselmo was absolutely that.” Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen 'is using her son Reuben's popularity to bolster her brand as she relaunches TV career after secret affair was exposed' The View host Sara Haines reveals the touching note Matthew Perry wrote to her brother to support him through his own alcoholism struggles released it as his first solo single. The song reached number one in more than 25 countries and sold in excess of six million copies. From heartthrob to hair flop! Gerard Butler, 53, sports an unflattering blond hairpiece as he films new crime thriller In The Hand Of Dante in Rome

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In 1986, the band split up after which he went solo and gave a hit “I Want Your Sex” with 7 million copies sold.Another time he nodded off at the wheel of his Mercedes and was found ‘slumped and drooling’ by police. He suffered ‘deep-seated paranoia’ from his heavy drug use. He became bloated. Mother's horror at being summoned to court on criminal charge after fine for taking her son on a term-time holiday 'went missing in the post' Downcast Chloe Madeley heads out in the wake of marriage split as pictures emerge of James Haskell whispering into mystery blonde's ear at DJ gig

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Matthew Perry's ex Molly Hurwitz 'wishes' Friends star had not 'thrown away' their relationship by messaging a 19-YEAR-OLD girl on RayaLittle-known right to help YOU beat NHS waiting lists without having to wait for hospitals to invite you...... James Gavin is an ace biographer, and in George Michael: A Life he tells the heartrending tale of a pop legend who couldn’t love himself but made the whole world feel good.”— Danny Fields, manager, the Ramones Very few people know that his first band was ‘The Executive’ (1979-80), which was formed in the summer of 1979, who played their first show on 5 November 1979, at a misty Bonfire night, in a Methodist church hall in Bushey, England.