| George Michael | 
George Michael on the cover of "Twenty Five". | | Background information | | Birth name | Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou | | Born | June 25, 1963 (1963-06-25) (age 44) | | Origin | London, England | | Genre(s) | Pop, pop rock, dance-pop, blue-eyed soul | | Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, producer | | Instrument(s) | Vocals, Multiple instruments | | Years active | 1982 – present | | Label(s) | Columbia Records, DreamWorks, Virgin, Epic, Sony Music | | Associated acts | Wham! | | Website | www.georgemichael.com | | Notable instrument(s) | Piano
John Lennon model "Z" Steinway [1] | Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γιώργος-Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου) (born June 25, 1963), best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning English[2] singer-songwriter who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! and also as a soul-influenced pop musician. He has sold over 85 million records worldwide, encompassing 12 British #1 singles, 9 British #1 albums, 10 US #1 singles, and 2 US #1 albums. His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has sold over 20 million copies to date. George Michael has been the most played artist on British radio over the past two decades.[3] George Michael is a common personal name in English-speaking countries. ...
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Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that evolved from disco, circa the early 1980s, that combines dance beats with a pop song structure. ...
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When David Geffen sold his Geffen Records to MCA Records he joined Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg to form Dreamworks SKG, with subsidiary DreamWorks Records. ...
Virgin Records was a British recording label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ...
Epic Records is an American record label, owned and operated by Sony BMG. // Epic was launched originally as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 by CBS. Its bright-yellow, black and blue logo became a familiar trademark for many jazz and classical releases. ...
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Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a pop band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ...
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Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a pop band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ...
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After performing 80 shows in 12 European countries for 1.3 million fans over the past year, George Michael will be bringing his 25 Live tour to North American Arenas in the summer of 2008 in support of his new retrospective album. This will be Michael's first North American tour in 17 years. The new album, titled Twenty Five, was released (in United States) on April 1st, 2008 and is a 29-song, 2-CD set featuring several new songs (including duets with Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige and a song from the TV series, Eli Stone) in addition to many of Michael's hit songs from both his solo and Wham! career. In addition, a companion 2-disc DVD of 40 videos will also be made available. 25 Live is a concert tour by British singer / songwriter George Michael, his first in over 15 years. ...
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Early life Michael was born Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, North London. His father was Kyriacos Panayiotou, a Greek Cypriot restaurateur who moved to England in the 1950s and changed his name to Jack Panos.[4] Michael's maternal grandmother was from a well-off Jewish family[5] and his grandfather from a poor working-class non-Jewish family.[6] Their daughter was Michael's mother, Lesley Angold Harrison, a former dancer who died of cancer in 1997.[7] He spent the majority of his childhood in North London, living in the home his parents bought shortly after his birth. In his early teens, the family moved to Radlett and Michael attended Bushey Meads School. , East Finchley is a suburban development in London, England, situated 5. ...
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, Radlett is a small town located north of London in the county of Hertfordshire between St Albans and Elstree on Watling Street with a population of approximately 8,000. ...
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He began his career by forming a short-lived ska band called The Executive with his best friends Andrew Ridgeley, Paul Ridgeley, Andrew Leaver, and David Mortimer (aka David Austin). This article is about the genre. ...
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Musical career (pre-solo)
Wham! -
It was not until he formed the duo Wham! together with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981 that success came for Michael. The band's first album, Fantastic, was released going to number 1 in the UK, and within a year, they had released their classic debut single, "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?)". Their second single, "Young Guns (Go For It!)", became the first in a string of Top 10 hits in the UK singles chart. They followed with titles such as "Bad Boys", and "Club Tropicana". Their second album Make It Big was their breakthrough, eventually selling 6 million copies in the US alone and made them international superstars. Singles from that album included "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Freedom", "Last Christmas/Everything She Wants", and "Careless Whisper", which was released as a Michael solo effort. Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a pop band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ...
Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a pop band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ...
Andrew John Ridgeley (born 26 January 1963) is an English pop singer, guitarist and environmentalist. ...
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) was a song by British pop duo Wham!, released in 1983 on Innervision records. ...
Young Guns (Go For It!) was a song by British pop duo Wham! which was released in 1982 on Innervision records. ...
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Bad Boys was a song by British pop duo Wham! which was a hit in 1983. ...
Club Tropicana was a song by British pop duo Wham!, released in 1983 on Innervision records. ...
Make It Big was the 1984 effort of British pop duo Wham! A giant success the world over, Make It Big was the album that would confirm George Michael as a star. ...
Ova pesma je najbolja!!!(This song is the best) Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go is a song by English pop duo Wham! which was released in 1984 and became their first UK number one hit. ...
Freedom was a song by British pop duo Wham! in 1984, becoming the groups second UK #1 hit. ...
Last Christmas is a song by British pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in 1984, on a double A-side with Everything She Wants. It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo. ...
Everything She Wants was a song by British pop duo Wham!, released in 1984 on Epic Records on a double A-side with Last Christmas. It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo. ...
Careless Whisper was a worldwide number-one hit song for George Michael in 1984. ...
George also sang on the original Band Aid recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas" and donated the profits from "Last Christmas/Everything She Wants" to the charity. In addition, he added background vocals to David Cassidy's 1985 hit "The Last Kiss", as well as Elton John's 1985 hits "Nikita" and "Wrap Her Up". Band Aid was a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record Do They Know Its Christmas? for the Christmas market. ...
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Wrap Her Up is a romantic song on English pop-rock performer Elton Johns 1985 album, Ice on Fire. ...
Wham!'s tour of China in April 1985, the first visit to China by a Western pop act, generated enormous worldwide media coverage, much of it centred on Michael. The tour was documented by celebrated film director Lindsay Anderson and producer Martin Lewis in their film Foreign Skies: Wham! In China and contributed to Michael's ever-widening fame. This article is about the year. ...
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With the success of his solo releases "Careless Whisper" (1984) and "A Different Corner" (1986) stories of an impending Wham! split intensified, and Wham! separated in the summer of 1986 after a farewell single, "Edge Of Heaven", an album, plus a sell-out concert at Wembley Stadium that included the world premiere of the China film. The Wham! partnership officially ended with the little-known single "Where Did Your Heart Go?", which reached a peak position of #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 1986. Careless Whisper was a worldwide number-one hit song for George Michael in 1984. ...
See also: // January 21 - Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart: it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40. ...
A Different Corner was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released on Epic Records in 1986. ...
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Solo career George Michael desired to create music targeted to a more sophisticated audience than the duo's primarily teenage fanbase. The first step of his solo career, in early 1987, was a duet with soul music icon Aretha Franklin. "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" was a one-off project that helped Michael achieve an ambition by singing with one of his favourite artists, and it reached number one on both the UK Singles Chart and the Billboard Hot 100 upon its release. Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ...
I Knew You Were Waiting for Me is a 1987 hit song by Aretha Franklin and George Michael. ...
For Michael, it became his third consecutive solo number-one in the UK from three releases, following 1984's "Careless Whisper" (though the single was actually from the Wham! album "Make It Big") and 1986's "A Different Corner". The single was also the first Michael had recorded as a solo artist which he had not written himself. The co-writer, Simon Climie, was an unknown at the time, although he would go on to have success as a performer with the band Climie Fisher in 1988. With this song, George won a Grammy Award in 1988 for Best R&B Performance - Duo or Group with Vocal. Careless Whisper was a worldwide number-one hit song for George Michael in 1984. ...
Make It Big was the 1984 effort of British pop duo Wham! A giant success the world over, Make It Big was the album that would confirm George Michael as a star. ...
A Different Corner was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released on Epic Records in 1986. ...
Climie Fisher were a UK pop duo formed by vocalist Simon Climie (born 7 April 1960) and former Naked Eyes keyboardist Rob Fisher ( 5 November 1956-25 August 1999). ...
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Faith -
The summer of 1987 saw the release of Michael's first solo release, Faith. In addition to playing a large number of instruments on the album, he wrote and produced every track on the recording, except for one, which he co-wrote. Faith is George Michaels first solo album which was released in 1987. ...
The first single released from the album Faith was "I Want Your Sex", in the summer of 1987. The song was banned by many radio stations in UK and USA, due to its sexually suggestive lyrics. MTV would air the video, featuring celebrity make-up artist Kathy Jeung in a basque and suspenders, only during the late night hours. Michael argued that the act was a beautiful thing if the sex was monogamous. Michael even recorded a brief prologue for the video in which he said "this song is not about casual sex". One of the racier scenes attacked involved Michael writing the words "explore monogamy" on his partner's back in lipstick. Some radio stations played a toned-down version of the song, "I Want Your Love", which was mainly the word "love" replacing "sex". When the tune reached the US charts, American Top 40 host Casey Kasem refused to say the song's title, referring to it only as "the new single by George Michael". In the US, the song was also sometimes listed as "I Want Your Sex (from 'Beverly Hills Cop II')", since the song was featured on the movie's soundtrack. Faith is George Michaels first solo album which was released in 1987. ...
I Want Your Sex was a single released from both the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop II and George Michaels Faith album, and first charted in July 1987. ...
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Despite censorship and airplay issues, "I Want Your Sex" reached #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on the week of August 8, 1987. Moreover, the single remained in the Top 10 for six weeks and the Top 40 for a total of fourteen weeks. The song charted at #3 in Britain. In 2002, several years after the major controversy that followed the release of the song, the music video was featured at #3 on MTV's countdown of the most controversial videos in the channel's history. is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The second single, "Faith", was released in October 1987, just a few weeks before the album. "Faith" would go on to become one of his most popular songs. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA and hit #2 in the UK singles chart. The famous video provided some definitive images of the 1980s music industry in the process — Michael in shades, leather jacket, cowboy boots, and a particularly memorable pair of tight Levis jeans, playing a guitar near a classic-design jukebox. "Faith" reached #1 on December 12, and remained there for four consecutive weeks. For Céline Dions single by the same name, see Faith. ...
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The album reached #1 in the UK and in several markets worldwide. In the United States, the album had 51 non-consecutive weeks inside the Billboard 200 Top 10, including 12 weeks at #1. "Faith" had many hits, four of which ("Faith", "Father Figure", "One More Try", and "Monkey") reached #1. Father Figure was a song written and performed by George Michael and released on Epic Records on January 1, 1988. ...
One More Try is a song written and performed by George Michael and released by Epic Records in 1988. ...
Monkey is a song by George Michael. ...
Eventually, "Faith", reached Diamond certification by the RIAA for sales of US$10 million in the US. To date, global sales of Faith are over US$20 million.
The Faith World Tour In 1988, Michael embarked on a world tour. The nightly set list included from the Wham! era ("Everything She Wants" and "I'm Your Man"), as well as covers of "Lady Marmalade" or "Play That Funky Music". In Los Angeles, California, George was joined on stage by Aretha Franklin for "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)". Everything She Wants was a song by British pop duo Wham!, released in 1984 on Epic Records on a double A-side with Last Christmas. It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo. ...
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Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ...
I Knew You Were Waiting for Me is a 1987 hit song by Aretha Franklin and George Michael. ...
That year he sang backing vocals for long-time friend and Wham! bass player Deon Estus on "Heaven Help Me". The song, written by both artists, just missed reaching the British top 40, but reached #5 in the United States. Deon Estus (born Jeffery Deon Estus) is an American bassist and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michaels bassist on all of the latters subsequent projects. ...
Huge success didn't bring Michael any happiness, as he says in his film A Different Story. Conscious of being a massive celebrity and possibly a gay man, he started to think there was something wrong in being an idol for millions of teenage girls. The whole Faith process (promotion, videos, tour, awards) left him completely exhausted, lonely and frustrated, and far from his friends and family. In 1990, when he told his record label Sony that he didn't want to do those kinds of promotions anymore. Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. ...
Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1 -
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was released in September 1990. Following the massive worldwide commercial success of Faith, this album found Michael trying to create a new image for himself as a serious-minded artist — the title is a clear indication of his desire to be taken more seriously as a songwriter. Michael refused to make any kind of promotion for this album, including no music videos for the singles released. Listen Without Prejudice Vol. ...
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The first single, "Praying For Time", was released in August 1990. It was a dark and sombre reflection on social ills and injustice; the song was hailed by critics as it peaked at number 6 in the UK and then reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 despite the absence of a video. Praying For Time was a song written and performed by George Michael, released on Epic records in 1990. ...
The second single "Waiting For That Day" was an acoustic-heavy, reflective single, released as an immediate follow-up to the comeback record, "Praying For Time". However, the corresponding album had also been released and therefore sales of the new single were unsurprisingly limited. "Waiting For That Day" peaked at number 27 in the US and at number 23 in the UK in October 1990. Waiting For That Day was a song performed and largely written by George Michael which was released on Epic records in 1990. ...
Praying For Time was a song written and performed by George Michael, released on Epic records in 1990. ...
The album debuted in the Billboard 200 list at #22 but reached its peak position of #2, being blocked from the top spot by MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em. The album spent the rest of 1990 inside the Top 10, and a total of 42 weeks inside the entire list, not even the half of the 87 weeks spent by the previous Faith. MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell on March 30, 1962) is an American MC who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his dramatic rise to and fall from fame and fortune, his trademark Hammer pants, and for leaving a lasting influence on hip hop culture...
Faith is George Michaels first solo album which was released in 1987. ...
In the UK, the album was a good seller and debuted at #1, although only for one week. The two following weeks the album held at #2. The album spent 34 debut consecutive weeks inside the Top 20, making in its 24th an impressive sales increase with a #13-#3 movement. It spent a total of 88 weeks inside the UK albums charts, and was certified 4 times Platinum by the BPI, in January 2, 1992. The album produced 5 UK singles, which were released very quickly, within an 8-month period: "Praying For Time", "Waiting For That Day", "Freedom '90", "Heal The Pain", and "Cowboys And Angels" (this last being the only single ever from George not chart on the UK top 40. is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Praying For Time was a song written and performed by George Michael, released on Epic records in 1990. ...
Waiting For That Day was a song performed and largely written by George Michael which was released on Epic records in 1990. ...
Freedom 90 was a 1990 hit song for George Michael, from his album Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. ...
Heal The Pain was a song written and performed by George Michael and released on Epic records in 1991. ...
Cowboys And Angels was a song written and performed by George Michael and released on Epic records in 1991. ...
"Freedom '90" was the only single to be supported by a music video. The song also alludes heavily to the struggles of being a closeted gay man, and acted as a catalyst to his effort to break free from his publishing contract with Sony Music. Freedom 90 was a 1990 hit song for George Michael, from his album Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. ...
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As if to prove the song's sentiment, George refused to appear in the video, directed by David Fincher, and instead recruited supermodel Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, and Cindy Crawford to lip-sync. It also featured the destruction of his sex symbol status. David Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director and music video director known for his dark and stylish films, particularly Fight Club and Se7en. ...
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Freedom '90 was a lengthy six and half minutes long. The addition of the year to the title was to distinguish the song from "Freedom", a #1 hit for Wham! back in 1984. It had contrasting fortunes on each side of the Atlantic — a #8 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, but only #28 on the UK singles chart. The video was badly taken by the American audience who read the destruction of the Faith icons as George's refusal of his own success. Freedom 90 was a 1990 hit song for George Michael, from his album Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. ...
Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a pop band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ...
"Mother's Pride" gained significant airplay in the United States during the first Gulf War in 1991, often with radio stations mixing in callers' tributes to soldiers with the music. It reached number 46 on Billboard Hot 100 with only airplay. Mothers Pride is a brand name for a variety of breads produced by British Bakeries, a division of RHM. The company also bake Nimble (reduced calorie) and Hovis branded loaves as well as supermarket own brand ranges. ...
In the end Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 sold around 7 million copies. Listen Without Prejudice Vol. ...
The Non-Release of Listen Without Prejudice Vol.2 In 1991 George Michael embarked in the "Cover to Cover Tour" in England, the US, and Brasil where he performed at the "Rock in Rio" event. In the audience in Rio, he saw and later met Anselmo Feleppa, the man who would become his partner. For other uses, see Brazil (disambiguation). ...
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The tour was not a proper promotion for Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1; rather it was more about George singing his favourite cover songs. Among his favourites was "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" a 1974 song by Elton John; George and Elton had performed the song together at the Live Aid concert in 1985, and again on George's concert at London's Wembley Arena on March 25, 1991 where the duet was recorded. The single was released at the end of 1991 and became a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me is the first single from British musician Elton Johns 1974 album Caribou; it was released that year during the latter half of May in Great Britain, and on June 10 in the United States. ...
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As successful as the 1974 record had been, it was as a duet that "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" had its greatest success and reached number 1 on the UK singles chart and on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was the only #1 single of the modern era to be recorded at an outdoors venue. Proceeds from the single were divided among 10 different charities for children, AIDS, and education. Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me is the first single from British musician Elton Johns 1974 album Caribou; it was released that year during the latter half of May in Great Britain, and on June 10 in the United States. ...
In the meantime the expected following album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 2, was scrapped for reasons unknown, although possibly due to Michael's frustration with Sony. Among Michael's complaints was that Sony had not fully supported the release of his previous album, resulting in its poor performance in the US as compared to Faith. Sony responded that Michael's refusal to appear in promotional videos had caused the poor response. Faith is George Michaels first solo album which was released in 1987. ...
George shelved the idea for Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 2 and donated three songs to the charity project Red Hot + Dance, which raised money for AIDS awareness, while a fourth track "Crazyman Dance" turned up on the B-side of 1992's "Too Funky". George donated the "Too Funky" royalties to the same cause. The song was lyrically a basic, animalistic plea from George for sexual activity with an individual, and musically it was the most upbeat record he had released since Faith almost five years previously. Red Hot + Dance is an album produced by Red Hot and Blue, an AIDS organisation dedicated to raising money and awareness to fight the onslaught of HIV. Pop star George Michael was instrumental in bringing the project to fruition and the album was notable for featuring three new songs by...
Too Funky was a song written and performed by George Michael and released by Epic Records in 1992. ...
Faith is George Michaels first solo album which was released in 1987. ...
"Too Funky" was George's final single for his publishing deal with Sony Music before he started legal action to extricate himself from his contract. The song didn't appear on any George Michael studio album, although later it was included on his solo collections Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael in 1998 and Twenty Five in 2006. The video featured George (sporadically) as a director filming supermodels Linda Evangelista, Tyra Banks, Beverly Peele, and Nadja Auermann at a fashion show. "Too Funky" was a hit, reaching number 4 in the UK singles chart, number 10 in the US Billboard Hot 100. Too Funky was a song written and performed by George Michael and released by Epic Records in 1992. ...
Twentyfive or 25 is George Michaels latest greatest hits album, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of his music career. ...
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Too Funky was a song written and performed by George Michael and released by Epic Records in 1992. ...
Five Live -
Main article: Five Live (EP) George Michael performed at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on April 20, 1992 at London's Wembley Stadium. The concert was a tribute to the life of the late Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury, with all proceeds going to AIDS research. Michael performed "Somebody to Love". Although the performance of the song was released on the "Five Live" EP. Five Live, released in 1992 to all markets except the United States and Canada where it was released the following year, features six tracks performed by George Michael, Queen and Lisa Stansfield at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert held April 20, 1992 at Wembley Stadium. ...
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert poster The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was an open-air concert held on Easter Monday, April 20, 1992 at Londons Wembley Stadium, televised live worldwide to an estimated audience of one billion viewers. ...
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Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British musician, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Queen (inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001). ...
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BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ...
Five Live, released in 1993 for Parlophone, features five — and in some countries, six — tracks performed by George Michael, Queen, and Lisa Stansfield. Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. ...
Lisa Jane Stansfield (born April 11, 1966), better known as Lisa Stansfield, is an English R&B and soul singer from the United Kingdom. ...
"Somebody to Love" and "These Are the Days of Our Lives" were recorded at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. "Killer", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", and "Calling You" were all live performances by George recorded during his "Cover to Cover Tour" from 1991. This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...
These Are the Days of Our Lives is a song by the British rock band Queen. ...
Killer is a popular song by Adamski and Seal. ...
Papa Was a Rollin Stone is a soul song, written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong as a single for Motown act The Undisputed Truth in 1971. ...
Calling You is an Academy Award nominated song from the Bagdad Café movie. ...
All proceeds from the sale of the EP benefited the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Sales of the EP were very strong through Europe, where it debuted at number 1 in the UK and several European countries. Chart success in the United States was far less spectacular, where it peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200.
Older -
In November 1994, at the first edition of the MTV European Music Awards George Michael appeared after a long seclusion, giving a touching performance of a brand-new song, "Jesus to a Child". The song was a melancholy tribute to his lover Anselmo Feleppa who died in March 1993. This article is about the George Michael album. ...
The MTV Europe Music Awards were established in 1994 by MTV Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. ...
Jesus To A Child was a song written and performed by George Michael and released on Virgin records in 1996. ...
Anselmo Feleppa was born in Brazil in August 21, 1956. ...
After the ordeal with Sony, having Michael stated that he would refuse to release any new material through Epic under his name, he couldn't release the single. David Geffen's US start-up record label signed a deal with Sony to release George from his old contract. The deal gave George the chance to release new music with the new label, along with two greatest hits albums and two new singles with Sony within 1998. Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ...
David Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, philanthropist. ...
The song was Michael's first self-penned hit in his homeland for almost four years and entered the UK singles chart straight at #1and #7 in The Billboard in the same month of release. It became his first solo single to enter the UK charts at the top, and #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA. It was also Michael's longest UK Top 40 single at almost seven minutes long. The exact identity of the song's subject — and the nature of George's relationship with Anselmo — was shrouded in innuendo at the time, however, as Michael had not confirmed he was gay, and did not do so until 1998. The video for "Jesus to a Child" was a beautiful picture of images recalling loss, pain, and suffering. Nowadays, Michael consistently dedicates the song to Feleppa before performing it live. Jesus To A Child was a song written and performed by George Michael and released on Virgin records in 1996. ...
The second single, out in April 1996, was "Fastlove", an energetic tune about wanting gratification and fulfilment without commitment. The song was somewhat unusual for a pop song, in that it does not have a defined chorus and that the single version is nearly five minutes long. "Fastlove" was supported by a futuristic virtual reality related video. Fastlove was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released on Virgin records in 1996. ...
Fastlove was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released on Virgin records in 1996. ...
"Fastlove" reached #1 in the UK singles chart, spending three weeks at the top spot. In the US, "Fastlove" peaked at #8, and would go on to be the last time that George Michael reached the top 10 in the US charts. Fastlove was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released on Virgin records in 1996. ...
Fastlove was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released on Virgin records in 1996. ...
Following "Fastlove" George finally released Older, his first studio album in six years and only the third of his solo career, even though Wham! had been split for a decade. The album's US and Canada release was particularly notable as it was the first album released by David Geffen's now-defunct DreamWorks Records. Fastlove was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released on Virgin records in 1996. ...
This article is about the George Michael album. ...
Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a pop band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ...
In October 1996, George performed a concert at Three Mills Studios, London for MTV Unplugged. It was his first long performance in years, and in the audience was George's beloved mum. The following year, George was dealt another heart-wrenching blow when his mother died of cancer. MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments. ...
Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael -
Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael is a greatest hits collection released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). The collection of 28 songs (29 songs are included on the European and Australian release) are separated into two halves, with each containing a particular theme and mood. The first CD, titled "For the Heart" predominantly contains Michael's hit ballads, while the second CD, "For the Feet", consists mostly of his popular dance tunes. See also: 1998 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1998 Record labels established in 1998 // 1998 - The single Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls sets a new hot 100 airplay record, 18 weeks at number one. ...
Ladies and Gentlemen... is notable for containing a large number of compilation tracks and duets that hadn't previously appeared on his albums, including his duet with Aretha Franklin, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"; "Desafinado", a duet in Portuguese with Brazilian legendary singer Astrud Gilberto; and the Elton John duet "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me". Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ...
Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian singer best known for her samba and bossa nova music, most famously as the vocalist on the Grammy Award winning song The Girl from Ipanema. // Astrud Gilberto was born Astrud Weinert, the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a German father...
Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ...
Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me is the first single from British musician Elton Johns 1974 album Caribou; it was released that year during the latter half of May in Great Britain, and on June 10 in the United States. ...
Ladies and Gentlemen... was released through Sony Music Entertainment as a condition of severing contractual ties with the label. He would later return to Sony to release his 2004 album Patience. Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. ...
Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. ...
Patience is a 2004 album by George Michael. ...
The first single "Outside" was a humorous look at his arrest for soliciting a policeman in a public restroom. "As", his duet with Mary J. Blige, was released as the second single in many territories around the world. It made #4 in the UK charts. The track was left off the North American release of the album as Blige's record label, MCA, felt that association with the openly gay and often controversial pop star wouldn't be in her best interest. Flush toilet A toilet is a plumbing fixture devised for the disposal of bodily wastes, including urine, feces, menses and vomit. ...
Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American R&B, soul, and hip hop soul singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, record producer, actress, and hip hop icon who has sold more than 40 million records and over 10 million singles worldwide. ...
MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc. ...
To date album has reached worldwide sales of approximately 18 million copies.[8]
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Songs from the Last Century, released in December 1999, consisted of old standards, plus new interpretations of more recent popular songs such as: "Roxanne" written by Sting, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", and the Frank Sinatra classic "Where Or When", written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Each of the 11 tracks were co-produced by Phil Ramone and George Michael. Songs from the Last Century is an album by singer George Michael, released in December of 1999 (see 1999 in music). ...
Roxanne is a female given name. ...
This article is about the musician. ...
Alternate covers Promotional single The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is a 1957 folk song written by Ewan MacColl for his wife Peggy Seeger. ...
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Where or When is a song that was written by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart for the 1937 Broadway musical Babes In Arms. ...
This article is about the American composer. ...
Lorenz (Larry) Hart (May 2, 1895 - November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. ...
Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1934. ...
Patience -
Patience debuted at number one on the UK album charts and at number two in Australia on March 22, 2004. Patience is a 2004 album by George Michael. ...
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Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Patience was George Michael's first album composed of original material since 1996. The controversial single "Shoot the Dog", was a critical song about the friendly relationship between the US and the UK governments regarding the Iraqi War. In the animated music video for the song, Tony Blair is depicted as the "dog" that follows his "owner" George W. Bush everywhere. Shoot the Dog is a single by the Dance Pop singer George Michael released as the second single from his 2002 album Patience. ...
For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency...
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...
George appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show on May 26, 2004 to promote the album. This marked his first US television appearance in over 10 years. On the show George spoke of his arrest, coming out as a gay man, and his return to the spotlight. He allowed Oprah's crew inside his home outside of London. George performed "Amazing", the second single from the album, and his classic songs "Father Figure" and "Faith". Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ...
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Twenty Five -
Twentyfive was George Michael's second greatest hits album, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his music career. Released in November 2006 by SonyBMG, it debuted at number-one in the UK. Twentyfive or 25 is George Michaels latest greatest hits album, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of his music career. ...
The album contains songs chiefly from George Michael's solo career, but also from his earlier days in Wham! and comes in two formats: two CDs or a limited edition three CD set. The 2-CD set contained 26 tracks, including 4 recorded with Wham! and 3 new songs: "An Easier Affair"; "This Is Not Real Love" (a duet with Mutya Buena, formerly of Sugababes, which peaked at #15 in the UK Charts); and a new version of "Heal The Pain" recorded with Paul McCartney. The limited edition 3-CD version contains an additional 14 lesser known tracks, including one from Wham! and another brand new song, "Understand". Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a pop band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ...
Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena, (born 21 May 1985 in Kingsbury, London), known professionally as Mutya Buena, is an English singer and songwriter, who rose to fame as a member of the pop group Sugababes. ...
Sugababes are a BRIT Award-winning British pop group trio from London. ...
Heal The Pain was a song written and performed by George Michael and released on Epic records in 1991. ...
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, entrepreneur, painter, record producer, film producer, and animal-rights activist. ...
The DVD version of Twenty Five contains 40 videos on two discs, including 7 with Wham!.
Life after Twenty Five During the 2005 Live 8 concert, George Michael joined Paul McCartney on stage, harmonizing on the Beatles' classic "Drive My Car". Official Live8 DVD, released in November 2005 Live 8 was a series of concurrent benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. ...
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, entrepreneur, painter, record producer, film producer, and animal-rights activist. ...
The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...
Drive My Car is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and first released performed by The Beatles on the UK version of the 1965 album Rubber Soul; it also appeared in the US on the Yesterday . ...
Michael was one of several remixers commissioned in 1990 to work on dance mixes for Bananarama's "Tripping on Your Love". Bananarama covered "Careless Whisper" for their Exotica album in 2001, and the track was also released as a single in France. Bananarama are a British girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. ...
 George Michael during a concert in Munich in 2006 Michael received £1.5 million US$3 million) to perform a 1-hour concert in Moscow for the 300 guests of Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin on the Eve of 2007. Some equipment was damaged in a fire caused "by badly wired pyrotechnics that went off a few hours after George Michael's band and crew had left". Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1815 × 1361 pixel, file size: 2 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Vladimir Potanin (Владимир Потанин in Russian) (born in 1961), is the president and founder of Oneximbank (also Oneksimbank). ...
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On May 12, 2007 in Coimbra, Portugal, he began the European "25 Live Stadium Tour 2007" , including London and Athens, and ending on August 4, 2007 in Belfast, UK. There have been 29 tour dates (as of April 21, 2007) over the whole of Europe. is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
Location - Country Portugal - Region Centro - Subregion Baixo Mondego - District or A.R. Coimbra Mayor Carlos Encarnação - Party PSD Area 319. ...
25 Live is a concert tour by British singer / songwriter George Michael, his first in over 15 years. ...
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On June 9, 2007 George became the first artist to perform live at the newly renovated Wembley Stadium in London where he was later fined US$250,000 for overrunning the show for 13 short minutes. is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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In the future On March 25, 2008 a Third Leg of the 25 LIVE Tour was announced for North America. This leg will include 21 dates in the United States and Canada. This is Michael's first tour of North America in 17 years. The tour will coincide with the April 1, 2008 release of his new Greatest Hits album which had not yet been released in the US. is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...
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2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...
Twentyfive or 25 is George Michaels latest greatest hits album, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of his music career. ...
Personal life
Sexuality Michael was initially private about his sexual orientation, with rumours of relationships with high-profile women such as Brooke Shields, Whoopi Goldberg, and Melissa Megginson making him common tabloid fodder during his Wham! career. Sexual orientation refers to the direction of an individuals sexuality, usually conceived of as classifiable according to the sex or gender of the persons whom the individual finds sexually attractive. ...
Brooke Christa Camille Shields[1] (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel. ...
Whoopi Goldberg (born November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian, radio presenter, host, and author. ...
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These persisted into his solo career, but Michael had already established a relationship with Anselmo Feleppa, whom he had met at the 1991 concert "Rock in Rio". Feleppa died of an AIDS-related brain hemorrhage in 1993. Michael's single "Jesus to a Child" is a tribute to Feleppa (he consistently dedicates it to him before performing it live), as is his 1996 album Older.[9] Anselmo Feleppa was born in Brazil in August 21, 1956. ...
A cerebral hemorrhage is a condition in the brain in which a blood vessel leaks. ...
Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...
Jesus To A Child was a song written and performed by George Michael and released on Virgin records in 1996. ...
This article is about the George Michael album. ...
In a 2007 interview, Michael said that he kept his homosexuality secret due to worries over the impact it would have on his mother.[10]
Los Angeles incident Questions of his sexual orientation persisted in public, until April 7, 1998, when he was arrested for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public toilet in a park in Beverly Hills, California. He was arrested by an undercover policeman named Marcelo Rodriguez, a sting operation using so-called "pretty police". April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ...
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George Michael: "Well, I was followed into the restroom, and then, this cop — well, I didn't know he was a cop at the time, obviously — he started playing this game. I think it's called 'I'll show you mine, you show me yours, and then when you show me yours, I'm gonna nick you'!" [11]
After pleading "no contest" to the charge, Michael was fined US$810 and sentenced to 80 hours of community service. Soon afterwards, Michael made a video for his single "Outside" which was clearly based on the public toilet incident and which featured men dressed up as policemen kissing. Rodriguez claimed that this video "mocked" him, and that Michael had slandered him in interviews. In 1999, he brought a US$10 million court case in California against the singer who has amassed an estimated personal fortune of £70 million (US$140 million). The court dismissed the case, but an appeals court reinstated the case on 3 December 2002.[12] The court then ruled Rodriguez, as a public official, could not legally recover damages for emotional distress.[13
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