George Michael: A Life

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As a solo artist, he sold an estimated 100 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists. Analysis: UK albums and singles market Archived 8 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Music Week, 29 November 2004.

As one of the industry’s most privileged yet tortured men began to self-destruct, the press showed little sympathy. By sensationalising and speculating about the details that he has no more insight into than anyone else, he shows himself to be no better than the media and paparazzi who pursued him throughout his life. Some radio stations played a toned-down version of the song, "I Want Your Love", with the word "love" replacing "sex".In George Michael: A Life, "Gavin's engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man" ( New York Times Book Review). days but never felt it could develop into a relationship because I knew that, emotionally, I was a gay man. Michael performed " '39", " These Are the Days of Our Lives" with Lisa Stansfield and " Somebody to Love". George Michael Was Found Dead in Bed by His Boyfriend Fadi Fawaz: 'I Will Never Stop Missing You' ". In February 2006, Michael was arrested for possession of Class C drugs, an incident that he described as "my own stupid fault, as usual".

The album includes the original version of "Fantasy" and the 1998 version; [144] the Nile Rodgers remix was not included on the disc but was made available to purchasers as a digital download. It was like he was playing russian roullette with the amount of drugs he consumed in his everyday life. In February 2003, Michael recorded another song in protest against the looming Iraq war, Don McLean's "The Grave". When his professional career in music took off, the record companies did not want George to reveal his sexuality; they wanted him to appeal to women and promote this lie in his music videos.At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards on 12 February 2017, Adele performed a slow version of " Fastlove" in tribute to Michael.