(Dagbladet): A whole world is in shock after the pop singer and musician George Michael has passed away, 53-year-old.
Thousands have taken to social media to honor the legendary artist, and prolific voices from the musical world now provides for the loss of the man with the gullrøsten.
Michael, whose full name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, has meant a lot for many people when it comes to music, is no secret. Still did the artist himself and well known for a number of other up – and downs.
Sivilkledd police officer
basically, George Michael is known the world over when he, together with the skolekompisen Andrew Ridgeley formed the duo Wham! in 1981. They were very popular, especially among ungpikene, and ravaged on the pop charts in many, many years before the two divorced in 1986.
As the blonde half in one of the 80′s greatest popsensasjoner, was not Michael only popular among the opposite sex, but also a favorite oppslagsobjekt for the press.
He made headlines the world over in 1998, when he stood out as a homosexual after almost have been pushed out of the enclosure.
Shortly before popstjerna chose to stand up, it was namely there that would change his life forever. On a harassment harbour in Will Rogers park in Los Angeles, to Michael have tåflørtet with a sivilkledd police officer.
“Indecent act”
Then the policeman popstjerna do what was referred to as an “indecent act”, which led to that Michael was arrested and questioned for three hours before he got out on bail.
The following hours were mediepresset tremendously. To prevent further speculation about his sexuality, let your inner pop star out interview in CNN:
I have dummet me out, and can’t do anything other than to excuse myself towards the fans. I can’t even say that it was the first time I’ve done anything like this, but I want to say that I’m ok, ” said George Michael to the CNNs reporter.
The English tabloidavisa The Sun was one of the many newspapers which had George Michael on its front page: “Zip me up before you go go” was the title of the case the following day.
Michael has also subsequently claimed towards talk show queen Oprah Winfrey that it was a trap and that it was the policeman himself who let up to what happened that night.
- Was not easier
Michael allowed himself to be seemingly not crack, and tried to cope with the situation by being completely open and honest about his sexual orientation.
” I want to say that I live a very nice life right now. I live in a gay relationship, and may well just like to say this publicly – I have in a way done this already. I have not, said the pop star, and told further that he has not had a relationship with a woman in almost ten years.
the Event also received a lot of attention in the period after, especially when Michael released the song “Outside”, where he ironiserer of the event. This also meant that the artist was sued by the civil officer.
In 2014 told the former Wham!-the singer that come out of the closet to be deleted did not make his life less complicated.
- Of one or another strange reason, was not my gay life easier when I came out. It’s quite the opposite happened, in fact, he said to the BBC, according to the People.com.
- Not found the right girl
the Artist, who three years earlier had made it end with partner Kenny Goss after 13 years, explained that existence was characterised by the denial of those around him.
It seemed as if the press found joy in that I previously had a straight audience, and that they tried to destroy it. And I think a lot of men were frustrated that their boyfriends, their could not stop to think that George Michael just hadn’t found the right girl yet. There are many in my family who also still believe, ” he explained further.
In spite of to describe the choice of whether to stand up, complicated, paving the Michael way for countless other gay people.
Not alone
For young people who grew up in the 90′s, was superstjerna among other things, to help to removed stigmaet around the LGBT community.
“George Michael helped an entire generation understand that it is OK to be gay”, writes, among other things Mashable.
In the hours after the death was made known, many have taken to social media to tell what the artist has meant to them. Many thanks to him in order to get them to realize that they “were not alone”.
- He is one of the first homoikonene I can remember. George Michael is a legend, writes on Twitter.
When I was 15 years old, I told for the first time that I’m gay. I said it to my sister, and her response was actually: Then can at least one of us to marry George Michael, writes another.
Working with documents
Besides being a very popular artist, Michael has namely been featured on one of the world’s largest homoikon in a number of years. On several occasions he has also ended up on the list of the largest and most sought-after icons of the homosexual.
George Michael has sold over 100 million albums in his career.
In the course of the “Wham!”-the time together with Andrew Ridgeley, he got among another resounding success with julelåten “Last Christmas”.
The last time of his life, he worked with the documentary film “Freedom”, in which he promised to tell all about the time in the 90′s. The film was scheduled to have its premiere in march of next year.
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