doesn’t seem like much, if it is counted in years of normal people, of which cose the wire in the tangle of the world, lives and dies, passes on, leaves some longing. But 53 years to George Michael is another thing entirely. Only the titles to begin with: more than 100 million albums sold, a series of hits monstrous that dominated the tables of the music between the 80s and up to the beginning of the century, prizes enough to drag behind itself a museum, and the Academy of british Radio revealed in 2004 that between 1984 and this year, it had been him the artist most played by stations of the Kingdom. In the almost four decades of his career, Michael knew how to command his success, and made it look a breeze to tra nsition from teenage idol to a respected artist adult, one of the most complicated metamorphoses in the Mythological world of the popular culture. Many years to ponder the right time to come out of the closet, ended up being forced to take homosexuality after an episode in a public bathroom in Beverly Hills, but once more turned an embarrassing situation in one of the most brilliant and memorable "outputs", which would later reveal a time is encouraging for the LGBT community, who was one of the greatest supporters.
Now, baixemos the volume between the arpeggio gloomy, to say that George Michael has had his last Christmas. He was found dead in the house, in Oxfordshire, in England. According to a statement from the police, a call was received shortly after two in the afternoon, and the musician was found without life, a death whose causes were still seen but no signs that raise any suspicions. Of the rest, it fell to the manager of Michael announce that he had left the world in the aftermath of a heart failure, but it was as many as many dream of: lying in bed, in the pose of peace.
in This case, it was for lack of warning that the death caused shock. The publicist of the musician stated that Michael was not even sick, and is so abruptly that the singer, who had already crossed with the death, in 2011, in the middle of a world tour, disappears without more. The scare of five years ago, occurred between concert dates on his Symphonica tour, having spent a week hospitalized in intensive care in Vienna, due to a pneumonia that forced the medical team to perform a tracheotomy to save the life. Two days before Christmas, shortly after being discharged from the hospital, the singer made a speech in the door of his house, in London, in a tribute to the emotional to the team at the hospital of Vienna that held him alive "the worst month" of his life. When asked what gave him the strength to resist, Michael responded: "The fact of being a lucky and have plenty of reasons to continue living. I have a life spectacular."
the Son of a cypriot owner of a restaurant and an English dancer, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou born 25 June 1963, in London, and has not passed the teenage years or a good part of the youth pasmando as to what would I do with the life. Not had to take the big swing, and in 1979, with 16 years, he and a school friend, Andrew Ridgeley, they played for the first time together in a band of ska called the Executive. The project is not more far away, but the boys formed a duo unbeatable, with Michael emerging early in the front, both in the composition and as the voice of Wham!, and began to appear on the singles in which the image of kids and rebels combined with a voracious restlessness on the wings of songs vibrant and infectious that became anthems at first superficial, but which continue to be revisited decades later .In them we feel a special irony, a mode of reign enjoying. And in many sens es the Wham! are taken as the incarnation music of Thatcherism, the duo was among the bands that supported the miners with a show of charity during the strike of 1984-85.
The debut album, "Fantastic", 1983, came to the throne in the top british, and the single "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" was far beyond borders, becoming a fever inescapable in the following year, remaining as one of the synonyms of the MTV generation. In 1985, were the first western band to take his world tour to China. But the fame global was not the sky to Michael, which early manifested signs that he had aspirations beyond the image laroca of the Wham! with this exclamation mark that guarantee good times on top of fun, and nothing more complicated. In the same year. in the solidarity concert Live Aid, broadcast by the televisions of the whole world, left Ridgeley, with the voices of support, and joined Elton John to sing this song "Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me" – success that in the version of duet has gained a second life.
in the previous year, the love ballad "Careless Whisper" had been signed by Michael, as if in some way feel that they do not fit completely on the brand that he had created before. The recent hits of the band were sewing, and influences increasingly secure in the field of the soul, and when the Wham! announced its end in a farewell concert at Wembley Stadium – who had 72 thousand people in the audience, since the singer was to much to prepare the ground for a solo career.
The following single was a step master, calling Aretha Franklin for a duet. "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", has climbed the tables of the two sides of the Atlantic, and the song won a Grammy as best performance R&B. Having proved that you lacked the skill to master the ears, and the heartbeat on the dance floors around the world, Michael has been rampant in the palace of the legends of music with the Queen of Soul by the arm. And to accentuate the cut with the past, his debut solo album, "Faith," it opened with a church organ to play the notes of the hit song of Wham!, "Freedom". It was his way of subtle play at the funeral of the old times, and take a step free of luggage for the new. Only this album sold 25 million copies, the same number that he had sold the band of the days of youth. Thus, in 1987, Michael has advanced to adulthood without being forced to look back, taking advantage of the whole balance of the pop, but exploring a border between the gospel and rockabilly.
it Was in the next studio album, "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1", released in 1990, the singer gave step more daring in the sense of bringing his old persona behind the barn and put it to sleep. "I’m not so stupid as to think that I can handle the other 10-or 15-subject to all this exposure," said so in an interview. "It seems to me that the great tragedy of fame: people who simply lose all control, los e themselves. I have seen so many cases of these, and I don’t want to be more of a cliché."
Even after becoming the biggest pop star in the world, Michael never satisfied and in "Waiting", a song from this album, singing: "Searches your dreams in the sky, but what remains but to hell after they perform?". The second solo album would be a success bestial in the career of any other musician, but by comparison with the sales of the previous one, the 8 million that this sold knew little. It was at this time that Michael became involved in a legal battle with the record label Sony, that the singer wanted to release it, feeling the slave of the contract and at the same time unhappy for the promotion of the second album have fallen short of their expectations. He eventually lost the case.
The stadiums never ceased to fill in for Michael, but the career has suffered to the extent that life has imposed, and the singer was no boy in the choir. He was arres ted, the justice had to call to reason some times, but other proved to be conservative, metediça, pathetic. Second, admitted in 2005, over 12 years, starting in 1991, he felt ambushed by "depression, fear and many other shit. I swear by God that it seemed that there was a curse on me." The boyfriend of years, Anselmo Feleppa, died of a brain hemorrhage in 1993, in a state of weakness caused by the Aids virus. This in a period in which the singer couldn’t even publicly admit his suffering because he wanted to protect the mother from the attacks of the press, if it were to assume the homosexuality.
Then it was time for the mother to die, and yet, for you trample on the pain, a stray dog that had attached much. "I had within me the overwhelming sense that the best years of my life had stayed behind," said Michael years later, assuming that, in desperation, turned to Prozac and cannabis. In moments the worst, he was smoking 25 joints a day.
In 1998, th ere was such an incident in the bathroom that was just arrested for committing a "lewd act". There were a number of other episodes of lack of control in the United Kingdom, many related to the use of drugs, alcohol… Several times he was caught drunk driving or have already passed out. It was an angel falling from very high. But let’s get back to the episode in the bathroom, and ended up in what could have been the end, the disgrace, the end. It was not because not only Michael took the opportunity to leave finally the closet as never apologized for his homosexuality, sent the fuck to the moral conservative, put it in the place where the sun doesn’t shine. And still he returned to the subject with the song "Outside", whose music video takes place in a bathroom that becomes a nightclub, now with the police to join in the party. The other, who held it, came to say that that was the cause "emotional damage". Poor, still tried to go to the courts to see if d own over some. Life was trying to sand the art rather than to imitate her. Not dripped anything, the case was closed.
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