The british 80-tallshelten died in his own home christmas day, only 53 years old.
It is with great sadness that we can confirm that our beloved son, brother and friend, George, died peacefully at his home in christmas, enter the family in a press release.
British police tell the BBC that an ambulance dispatched to the house in Goring, Oxfordshire clock 13.42 Sunday, but that they do not suspect anything criminal. Manager Michael Lippman says to the AP that he died of a heart defect.
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Brilliant solo career
As the blonde part of the popduoen Wham! helped George Michael to the wall covering of the piles of jenterom in the years between 1983 and 1986.
He had a brilliant solo career after the breakup of Wham in 1986, and released his debut album “Faith” sold over 20 million copies. All together he has sold over 100 million records worldwide.
He also has had seven singles on the top of the american charts and eleven on the top in the united Kingdom. Six of his albums have also topped the charts in their home country.
Among the biggest hits of his are songs like “Club Tropicana”, “Last Christmas”, “Freedom” and “Wake me up before you go-go”.
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POPDUO: F. v. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in Wham! during a concert in 1985.
Photo: Neal Ulevich, AP
In 2005 announced to Michael that he was finished with the music industry and life in the spotlight of media attention, but their stay was short-lived – and the year after he stood on stage in front of 8000 spectators in the Oslo Spektrum.
“When one of the biggest european pop stars put out on the road for the first time in 15 years, calls for an event. And it doesn’t feel like anything less than the when George Michael enters the scene in spectacular glamorous show in Oslo Spektrum, and pumps out discoperlen Flawless”, wrote vg’s konsertanmelder Thomas Talseth and rolled the dice five for what was superstjernens the last concert in Norway.
Major drug abuse problem
Kvinnebedåreren was almost thrown out of the closet as a homosexual. In 1998, he was arrested in a public toilet after having made himself guilty of “indecent behaviour” towards a sivilkledd police officer in Los Angeles.
I think that I really wanted to be revealed to get my life to be about me. But anyway so it was not because I wanted to get out of the way, he said in an interview a few years later.
He has also figured in a number of skandaleoverskrifter. In the course of six years, he was arrested seven times. In 2006, he was arrested for possession of cannabis, and the year after were pop star stripped from the patch after running in the anti-drink state.
SCANDALS: George Michael outside court in London after he was fradømt driving license for driving in the anti-drink state in 2007.
Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth, AP
the pop star has been open about the fact that he struggled with alcohol and drug addiction for many years. In 2014 he was admitted to a privatklinikk in Switzerland to get help with rusproblemene.
Worked with documentary film
In 2011 had Michael to cancel a number of concerts when he was admitted to a hospital in Vienna with pneumonia.
After being discharged, he held an emotional press conference outside their residence in London where he said there had been “close in” that he did not survive.
” It was very scary, and I will probably never feel completely safe again. But you the world, I was just so grateful to come out alive again and back to my home in London, ” said Michael in a rare interview with the newspaper the Ham&High in 2014.
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right up to the last he worked with the documentary film “Freedom”, in which he promised to tell all about the eleville time in the 90′s, and talk with old friends such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Tony Bennett.
the Film was scheduled to have its premiere in march of next year. It is unknown what happens with the project now that the star has passed away.
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