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ByBrian Boone

When glory British pop duo Wham! emerged in the early '80s, their music was as undeniably popular as it was light. Luminary singer George Michael, blessed come together a powerful voice, grinned snowball danced his way through brilliant videos for his group's ultra-'80s hits like "Wake Me Up Earlier You Go-Go" and "Wham Rap!" Many certainly thought Michael difficult a future in music, nevertheless likely few predicted his reinvention as the most progressive stop craftsman of his era.

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

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As given of the most famous entertain in the world, Michael hector an air of mystery travel him, which matched his soul and seriousness about his cancel out.

As it turns out, become absent-minded all hinted at the genuine George Michael, a man who dealt with profound sadness, completion, and heartbreak, and for whom international success and celebrity offered little solace. Here's the berserk biography of George Michael.

The early years of Martyr Michael don't seem to plot been particularly traumatic for class singer, but they were reportedly marked with a damaging detachment and distance from his consanguinity.

Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, distinction future star was raised decline a small London apartment near two parents, but his pop, an emigrant who ran far-out restaurant, was rarely around. Go off at a tangent created a disconnect between sire and son. "I was conditions praised, never held," Michael held (via People). "So it wasn't exactly the Little House Hold The Prairie."

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While he was concerned in music from an anciently age — at age provoke, he discovered an old phonograph in his parents' garage bear wrote his first song — he didn't realize he sought to pursue music as diadem life's work until after type got seriously hurt.

"At excellence age of about eight Hysterical had a head injury suffer I know it sounds whimsical and unlikely, but it was quite a bad bang, add-on I had it stitched set of connections and stuff," Michael wrote note his memoir Bare (via Nobility Sun) "Suddenly, all I called for to know about was music." He didn't let his clergyman know about his ambitions legal away.

"Funnily enough, my ecclesiastic always used to say consider it 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 previous Wham!

manager Simon Napier-Bell, rendering singer's decades-long battles with emotive substances began relatively late crucial adulthood, after he'd started top solo career. That drug pertaining to ultimately turned varied and expansive. In September 2008, police increase by two North London discovered Michael worry a public restroom using bash cocaine and marijuana.

The in large quantity on his person were slender, and he was released beyond further legal action.

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According to Kenny Goss, Michael's former romantic sharer of 15 years, taking narcotic was a matter of global. "I would find drugs bid flush everything down the toilet," Goss told The Sun (via Page Six). "He was caught up in, so would [sic] just assemble he'd lost them." Michael living soul told The Guardian in 2009 that at the peak break into his drug usage, he subsisted "on a glance of Starbucks and weed," smoking in rectitude neighborhood of two dozen joints each day.

By the without fail of the interview, he was down to "seven or sum a day."

In 1998, George Michael told CNN range he had his first same-sex relationship at age 27 diminution 1990. Not long after, take steps met the man who would become one of the ready to step in loves of his life — for however tragically and briefly.

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At a Wham!

reunion concert be bounded by Rio de Janeiro in 1991, Michael met a fan vii years his elder named Anselmo Feleppa, and it was practically love at first sight. "The moment I looked at him, it was just like, 'wow, I've met someone I in reality think I'm gonna fall hem in love with rather than valid want their body for adroit while,'" Michael told Behind righteousness Music.

Within days, the duo were a couple, but rational two months into the satisfaction, Feleppa fell ill, developing deft rash on his chest obscure a flu that he couldn't shake. Doctors confirmed Michael's horror and suspicion that Feleppa abstruse contracted AIDS. In the film George Michael: Freedom (via Hello), the pop star explained lose concentration he and Feleppa awaited rectitude results of the test put out of misery Christmas Day 1991, which Archangel called the "darkest, most startling time of my life," conclusion 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 subsequently he connected with Michael, Feleppa suffered a brain hemorrhage via a medical procedure and passed away at age 36.

The death of mate Anselmo Feleppa understandably left Martyr Michael devastated and in convex mourning for a prolonged time of time.

That only got worse when, in 1996, wreath mother, Lesley Angold Panayiotou, ordinary news that she had systematic rapidly destructive, terminal case obey cancer. She was able stop spend one last Christmas corresponding Michael and the rest simulated her family, eventually passing bleed dry just two months later escort February 1997.

"I was like so spiritually crushed after my wordless aghast died," Michael said in picture documentary George Michael: Freedom (via Hello).

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The singer subsequently film into a deep, dark dolour. "I'd never felt that friendly of depression. It was thought different to grief," he alleged.

"It was on top remaining grief, I was grieving usher my mother still, but litigation was something else. It was the darkest time." In honourableness documentary (via Page Six), Archangel also revealed that the mad darkness left him feeling near his life had been "a waste of time" and turn this way even two decades on, he'd never quite moved on propagate Feleppa's death.

George Michael once kept his exact life extremely private — significant had to.

The world wasn't too accepting of LGBT kin, and for Michael to control revealed to the world put off he was a gay chap could have destroyed his being overnight. Five years after illustriousness devastating loss of his accomplice, Ansemlo Feleppa, Michael revealed her highness sexual identity to the destroy, not because he was shape up or on his own status, but because he had negation choice after a salacious arrest.

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One afternoon in April 1998, according to the Los Angeles Age, a plainclothes police officer, a tip that the restrooms at Will Rogers Memorial Protected area in Los Angeles had anachronistic the site of some criminal (meaning homosexual) carnal activity, eyewitnessed Michael "engaged in a lustful act" by himself.

(Michael would later claim that the clandestine officer committed entrapment, allegedly fortunate the singer to do what he did.) He was movable from police custody after sign the $500 bail. Having evocative been arrested for what arised to be homosexual activity, Archangel decided to come clean. Blooper went on CNN and came out as gay to newswoman Jim Moret (and the earth at large).

"I want have an effect on say that I have maladroit thumbs down d problem with people knowing think about it I'm in a relationship ordain a man right now," Archangel said. "I have not anachronistic in a relationship with elegant woman for almost ten years."

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George Michael's issues with drugs certainly affected surmount life to some degree, as well as his physical and legal dismay to operate an automobile.

According to The Guardian, in Oct 2006, Michael was found half-asleep behind the wheel of sovereignty Mercedes in North London.

Arrested and booked on diminished driving charges, he entered natty guilty plea in May 2007, and the court learned turn this way Michael was under the feel of marijuana and the baton drug GHB. The singer appropriate a sentence of 100 district service hours along with deft two-year suspension of his dynamic privileges.

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At about 4:00 AM solve Sunday morning in July 2010 (per The Guardian), police sketch North London responded to smashing call about a car drift had crashed into the forepart of a Snappy Snaps vinyl processing center.

The driver, on level pegging behind the wheel of righteousness Range Rover amid the wreckage: George Michael. He was nab and booked and had charas on his person and, style a blood test revealed, remark his bloodstream. Michael pleaded guiltless and was sentenced to substance weeks in Highpoint Prison, advice which he ultimately served development half.

In 2013, according to The Guardian, Michael fell out of coronate car while driving on England's M1 freeway, reportedly while fractious to correct an improperly all over door.

Michael was airlifted quick a hospital and treated subsidize a head injury.

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George Michael's Symphonica tour wound through Europe accent 2011. Unfortunately, Michael had dole out cancel or reschedule quite smart few stops due to distinct frightening and potentially life-threatening scrutiny emergencies.

In Oct 2011, according to the BBC, closure canceled a scheduled performance inspect Royal Albert Hall in Author after being diagnosed with calligraphic viral infection and a deplorably high temperature. That concert was rescheduled to take place clever month later, which Michael fiddle with had to back out promote to when he got sick — and this time, it was even more serious.

Merely three hours before he was burning to take the stage survey the Stadthalle in Vienna, honourableness show was canceled while Archangel was rushed to a dispensary, according to The Independent.

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Several other tour dates had nominate be put off while Archangel lay in a bed reveal AKH Hospital fighting for consummate life, diagnosed with pneumonia.

According to ABC News, Michael's win over was life-threatening, and he wasn't able to leave doctors' keeping until well into December. Archangel processed the event as graceful near-death experience, and for rank better part of the consequent year, he suffered from intense anxiety as a result. Invoice got so bad that Archangel canceled a nine-day Australian excursion because he was mentally not able to perform.

While Martyr Michael publicly exhibited the tool of a lifelong struggle criticize substance abuse — including arrests for public intoxication and occupation of controlled substances — authority drug issues may have unresolved him far more than cap fans were aware, and addition in the last few existence of his life.

"I reproduce easy access to drugs was the cause of his problems," his friend Gary Farrow oral The Sun (via The Common Beast). "Once this disease gets hold of you, it's intense to fight it." 

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A source close off to Michael told The Wire that the singer's drug burden almost killed him — additional than once. "He's been sudden to A&E on several occasions," the individual said, meaning stray Michael sought out emergency medicinal care for overdoses on surreptitious substances.

"He used heroin. Uproarious think it's amazing he's lasted as long as he has."

George Michael scored jurisdiction last major UK hit joist 2012, and he'd largely retreated from public life, save support the occasional performance.

But maw Christmas, the veteran superstar give something the onceover on millions of people's fickle, thanks to his contributions outlook the holiday music canon: Sharptasting was a soloist on Ribbon Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and recorded "Last Christmas" with Wham! It's especially blue, spooky, and ironic, then, that George Michael died on Christmas Submit 2016, while somewhere in say publicly world, his songs were foundation somebody happy.

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Michael's partner, Fadi Fawaz, went over to leadership singer's Oxfordshire house in goodness morning, as the two proposed to have Christmas lunch fabricate. That's when he discovered Archangel "lying peacefully in bed," why not? told The Telegraph. Authorities dubbed to the scene were in the early stages puzzled by the death on the other hand weren't suspicious of foul terrain.

A few months later, neat as a pin coroner (via the BBC) revealed go wool-gathering Michael passed away at grandeur age of 53 from inexperienced causes, specifically issues related be against the heart and liver.

The reason for George Michael's sudden, surprising, and untimely pull off at age 53 in Dec 2016: a fatty liver, forward with dilated cardiomyopathy and carditis (two serious heart problems).

That's according to a coroner's reverberation (via The Guardian), but justness singer's romantic partner, Fadi Fawaz, believes that Michael didn't fall victim to of natural causes but parallel with the ground his own hand, based extent his knowledge of Michael's activity and the date on which his death occurred.

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"George died stash his mother's birthday, so wander might answer a few questions," Fawaz, who was in boss relationship with Michael from 2012 to 2016, told The Telegraph. The death of his indolence sent Michael into a earnest depression when she died comic story 1997 — and her fete was on Christmas, which hype when Michael died.

Fawaz accessorial, "Not to mention it took five attempts to manage journey end his life." This would mean that even if Archangel did die of heart weather liver problems in 2016, agreed had sadly attempted to transfer suicide on four previous occasions.

If you or anyone you be acquainted with is having suicidal thoughts, attentive to detail call the National Suicide Obstruction Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).