Singer-songwriter George Michael died Dec. He was In a article, he talked about his effort to downplay his celebrity status. Three years later, Michael made the almost unprecedented leap from pretty-boy teen dream to respected adult pop artist. He may just do a half-dozen or so benefit concerts early next year, and even then he may concentrate on songs by other people.

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The census of George Michael's videos on the Playlist is referenced in chronological order of the singer's life. This is tragic news for the family of George Michael. Three years to the day after, his sister Melanie Panayiotou also died on December 25, at the age of In a press release published by the family of George Michael through their lawyer, we learn: "We can confirm the death of Melanie, tragic and sudden.
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George Michael , who died on Sunday Dec. Not at the time, of course -- with ten Billboard Hot number-one singles in nine years between his solo career and his work with early co-conspirator Andrew Ridgeley in Wham! But due to a relatively abrupt fade from Top 40's center, a close association with some of the more overblown visual and sonic signifiers of the s, and some less-than-progressive attitudes about his homosexuality -- and the way it manifested in both his music and public life -- have kept George Michael from maintaining the mononymic-level status afforded to peers like Madonna, Prince, Janet and Michael. George Michael's music should be taken very seriously, and also very frivolously -- few songwriters of his era were as capable of writing both heart-wrenching torch ballads speaking to the essential isolation at the core of the human condition, and sugary pop trifles where the only word you needed to understand was "jitterbug. It's too late for George Michael to get the level of respect as an artist, songwriter and overall icon that he deserved during his lifetime.