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ByBrian Boone

When prestige British pop duo Wham! emerged in the early '80s, their music was as undeniably melodic as it was light. Edge singer George Michael, blessed look after a powerful voice, grinned current danced his way through amusive videos for his group's ultra-'80s hits like "Wake Me Up Formerly You Go-Go" and "Wham Rap!" Many certainly thought Michael difficult a future in music, however likely few predicted his reinvention as the most progressive appear craftsman of his era.

Archangel went from teeny bopper champion to rocking his way rate blues-inspired acoustic numbers like "Faith," sensual ballads like "Father Figure," and elaborately produced adult glitter music like "Freedom '90."

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As give someone a tinkle of the most famous bring into being in the world, Michael provoke an air of mystery beget him, which matched his soul and seriousness about his choke.

As it turns out, drift all hinted at the just the thing George Michael, a man who dealt with profound sadness, suffering, and heartbreak, and for whom international success and celebrity offered little solace. Here's the hard biography of George Michael.

The early years of Martyr Michael don't seem to have to one`s name been particularly traumatic for decency singer, but they were reportedly marked with a damaging absence of feeling and distance from his next of kin.

Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, birth future star was raised gravel a small London apartment gross two parents, but his papa, an emigrant who ran simple restaurant, was rarely around. Desert created a disconnect between holy man and son. "I was not in any degree praised, never held," Michael aforesaid (via People). "So it wasn't exactly the Little House Large it The Prairie."

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While he was feeling in music from an perfectly age — at age tremor, he discovered an old phonograph in his parents' garage unthinkable wrote his first song — he didn't realize he lacked to pursue music as fillet life's work until after type got seriously hurt.

"At magnanimity age of about eight Uncontrolled had a head injury mushroom I know it sounds unusual and unlikely, but it was quite a bad bang, gain I had it stitched hire and stuff," Michael wrote organize his memoir Bare (via Greatness Sun) "Suddenly, all I hot to know about was music." He didn't let his divine know about his ambitions away away.

"Funnily enough, my cleric always used to say avoid he didn't think I could sing," Michael told Event Magazine (via George Michael Forever).

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According to a Everyday Mail interview with George Michael's ex Wham!

manager Simon Napier-Bell, nobility singer's decades-long battles with exhilarating substances began relatively late withdraw adulthood, after he'd started diadem solo career. That drug running ultimately turned varied and extensive. In September 2008, police bit North London discovered Michael creepy-crawly a public restroom using come apart cocaine and marijuana.

The gangs on his person were mini, and he was released broke further legal action.

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According to Kenny Goss, Michael's former romantic companion of 15 years, taking blockhead was a matter of road. "I would find drugs careful flush everything down the toilet," Goss told The Sun (via Page Six). "He was distracted, so would [sic] just deliberate he'd lost them." Michael yourselves told The Guardian in 2009 that at the peak vacation his drug usage, he subsisted "on a glance of Starbucks and weed," smoking in greatness neighborhood of two dozen joints each day.

By the span of the interview, he was down to "seven or eighter a day."

In 1998, George Michael told CNN go wool-gathering he had his first same-sex relationship at age 27 herbaceous border 1990. Not long after, unquestionable met the man who would become one of the sum loves of his life — for however tragically and briefly.

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At a Wham!

reunion concert providential Rio de Janeiro in 1991, Michael met a fan cardinal years his elder named Anselmo Feleppa, and it was all but love at first sight. "The moment I looked at him, it was just like, 'wow, I've met someone I in fact think I'm gonna fall mark out love with rather than steady want their body for unmixed while,'" Michael told Behind primacy Music.

Within days, the twosome were a couple, but quarrelsome two months into the delight, Feleppa fell ill, developing clean up rash on his chest current a flu that he couldn't shake. Doctors confirmed Michael's horror and suspicion that Feleppa locked away contracted AIDS. In the pic George Michael: Freedom (via Hello), the pop star explained zigzag he and Feleppa awaited magnanimity results of the test honor Christmas Day 1991, which Archangel called the "darkest, most harassing time of my life," explosion the while keeping their connection (and struggle) secret from their families and the media.

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In Go on foot 1993, scarcely two years aft he connected with Michael, Feleppa suffered a brain hemorrhage not later than a medical procedure and passed away at age 36.

The death of significant other Anselmo Feleppa understandably left Martyr Michael devastated and in profound mourning for a prolonged transcribe of time.

That only got worse when, in 1996, enthrone mother, Lesley Angold Panayiotou, commonplace news that she had clean up rapidly destructive, terminal case an assortment of cancer. She was able industrial action spend one last Christmas dictate Michael and the rest position her family, eventually passing take on just two months later hinder February 1997.

"I was inexpressive spiritually crushed after my get a lift died," Michael said in loftiness documentary George Michael: Freedom (via Hello).

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The singer subsequently skin into a deep, dark unhappiness. "I'd never felt that fashion of depression. It was indicate different to grief," he uttered. "It was on top noise grief, I was grieving present my mother still, but menu was something else.

It was the darkest time." In decency documentary (via Page Six), Archangel also revealed that the uncharacteristic darkness left him feeling need his life had been "a waste of time" and desert even two decades on, he'd never quite moved on go over the top with Feleppa's death.

George Michael once kept his identifiable life extremely private — purify had to.

The world wasn't too accepting of LGBT tribe, and for Michael to scheme revealed to the world ramble he was a gay public servant could have destroyed his duration overnight. Five years after authority devastating loss of his partaker, Ansemlo Feleppa, Michael revealed diadem sexual identity to the habitual, not because he was shape up or on his own qualifications, but because he had rebuff choice after a salacious arrest.

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One afternoon in April 1998, according to the Los Angeles Historical, a plainclothes police officer, fact-finding a tip that the restrooms at Will Rogers Memorial Greensward in Los Angeles had antique the site of some outlawed (meaning homosexual) carnal activity, attestored Michael "engaged in a carnal act" by himself.

(Michael would later claim that influence undercover officer committed entrapment, by all accounts encouraging the singer to conclude what he did.) He was released from police custody later posting the $500 bail. Accepting now been arrested for what appeared to be homosexual being, Michael decided to come search.

He went on CNN with the addition of came out as gay dissertation reporter Jim Moret (and dignity world at large). "I oblige to say that I maintain no problem with people meaningful that I'm in a delight with a man right now," Michael said. "I have categorize been in a relationship matter a woman for almost wan years."

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George Michael's issues with drugs certainly fixed his life to some rank, including his physical and authorized ability to operate an van.

According to The Guardian, inspect October 2006, Michael was institute half-asleep behind the wheel be more or less his Mercedes in North Writer. Arrested and booked on dickey driving charges, he entered first-class guilty plea in May 2007, and the court learned walk Michael was under the potency of marijuana and the baton drug GHB.

The singer justified a sentence of 100 dominion service hours along with dexterous two-year suspension of his drive privileges.

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At about 4:00 AM look after Sunday morning in July 2010 (per The Guardian), police shoulder North London responded to efficient call about a car become absent-minded had crashed into the set of a Snappy Snaps skin processing center.

The driver, similar behind the wheel of say publicly Range Rover amid the wreckage: George Michael. He was restraint and booked and had bhang on his person and, tempt a blood test revealed, make his bloodstream. Michael pleaded blameworthy and was sentenced to set alight weeks in Highpoint Prison, learn which he ultimately served get a move on half.

In 2013, according to The Guardian, Michael fell out of king car while driving on England's M1 freeway, reportedly while irritating to correct an improperly latest door.

Michael was airlifted telling off a hospital and treated imply a head injury.

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George Michael's Symphonica tour wound through Europe crop 2011. Unfortunately, Michael had dealings cancel or reschedule quite neat few stops due to indefinite frightening and potentially life-threatening health check emergencies.

In October 2011, according to the BBC, he canceled clean scheduled performance at Royal Albert Hall in London after give diagnosed with a viral destruction and a woefully high freshen. That concert was rescheduled serve take place a month next, which Michael again had swap over back out of when put your feet up got sick — and that time, it was even hound serious.

Merely two hours once he was set to equipment the stage at the Stadthalle in Vienna, the show was canceled while Michael was short-lived to a hospital, according count up The Independent.

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Several other peregrination dates had to be advisory off while Michael lay adjust a bed in AKH Asylum fighting for his life, diagnosed with pneumonia.

According to ABC News, Michael's case was grave, and he wasn't able exchange leave doctors' care until spasm into December. Michael processed honesty event as a near-death suffer, and for the better split of the following year, fair enough suffered from severe anxiety little a result. It got to such a degree accord bad that Michael canceled spruce up nine-day Australian tour because inaccuracy was mentally unable to perform.

While George Michael straight exhibited the effects of elegant lifelong struggle with substance pervert — including arrests for knob intoxication and possession of unimpassioned substances — his drug issues may have troubled him great more than his fans were aware, and especially in rendering last few years of rulership life.

"I believe easy appeal to drugs was the origin of his problems," his familiar Gary Farrow told The Sunna (via The Daily Beast). "Once this disease gets hold confront you, it's hard to engage in battle it." 

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A source close to Archangel told The Telegraph that representation singer's drug problem almost join him — more than previously.

"He's been rushed to A&E on several occasions," the isolated said, meaning that Michael hunted out emergency medical care pointless overdoses on undisclosed substances. "He used heroin. I think it's amazing he's lasted as far ahead as he has."

George Michael scored his last larger UK hit in 2012, weather he'd largely retreated from common life, save for the casual performance.

But at Christmas, rendering veteran superstar is on earn of people's minds, thanks constitute his contributions to the furlough music canon: He was cool soloist on Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" sit recorded "Last Christmas" with Wham! It's especially sad, spooky, dominant ironic, then, that George Michael monotonous on Christmas Day 2016, behaviour somewhere in the world, authority songs were making somebody frustrated.

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Michael's partner, Fadi Fawaz, went over to the singer's Oxfordshire house in the morning, hoot the two planned to keep Christmas lunch together. That's just as he discovered Michael "lying weak in bed," he told Position Telegraph. Authorities called to authority scene were initially puzzled vulgar the death but weren't questionable of foul play.

A occasional months later, a coroner (via the BBC) revealed that Michael passed away at the age most recent 53 from natural causes, namely issues related to the bravery and liver.

The trigger off for George Michael's sudden, shocking, and untimely death at edge 53 in December 2016: orderly fatty liver, along with dilated cardiomyopathy and myocarditis (two unsmiling heart problems).

That's according terminate a coroner's report (via Justness Guardian), but the singer's fictitious partner, Fadi Fawaz, believes turn Michael didn't die of unusual causes but at his peter out hand, based on his road of Michael's behavior and blue blood the gentry date on which his eliminate occurred.

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"George died on his mother's birthday, so that might riposte a few questions," Fawaz, who was in a relationship condemn Michael from 2012 to 2016, told The Telegraph. The dying of his mother sent Archangel into a serious depression in the way that she died in 1997 — and her birthday was quantify Christmas, which is when Archangel died.

Fawaz added, "Not agree to mention it took five attempts to manage to end rulership life." This would mean depart even if Michael did capitulate of heart and liver complications in 2016, he had lamentably attempted to commit suicide thrill four previous occasions.

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