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I grew up in a family where music always played in everyone’s homes. By the moment I was three-years-old, I could chant every lyric to the Beach Boys’ song “Barbara Ann” at the seek of any person who asked me to. Between my parents’ separate homes, my maternal grandparents’ house, and my paternal grandma’s dwelling, I was inundated by the sounds my guardians preferred. My grandparents, of course, tended to play a lot of old college R&B, soul, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley. My dad was a gigantic “guido” growing up in the 1970s, so his tastes were mostly confined to disco, later R&B and mind, funk, some blues-rock, and Billy Joel. My mom, on the other hand, was all over the place in terms of her musical tastes. She liked some of the same genres my dad did — especially disco and soul —- but she was also obsessed with the pop-rock of her youth, 1980s new wave, newer pop acts, some electronic Eurobass tune that became famous in the 1990s, and, especially, David Bowie, Elton John, and George Michael.
Before I hit double digits in age, George Michael’s voice significantly populated many a long automobile drive, a Saturday morning at place, and an evening of watching my mom get ready to g
When George Michael came out as homosexual on live TV and inspired a generation
11 October 2021, 16:00 | Updated: 26 October 2021, 10:16
George Michael appeared on television in 1998 revealing he was gay for the first moment and inspiring the world with the words: "I don’t feel any shame whatsoever."
George Michael had recently been arrested for propositioning an undercover policeman in a Beverley Hills park and, according to the reporter who interviewed him, wanted to bravely reveal the correctness "in his retain words and in his own way."
Before taking the courageous decision to discuss his sexuality on TV, George said he calmed down by reassuring himself: "You’re a human being. Just go on TV and get it sorted."
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The landmark interview with CNN starts with Jim Moret stating to George: "Your sexuality has been a focus of tremendous attention."
George responds: "Yeah, to some degree, with pop stars or clip stars, we develop the object of people’s self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition."
"I think people
George Michael (courtesy georgemichael.com)
Heart failure killed George Michael, 53, on Christmas 2016. Wham’s 1985 hit “Last Christmas” will never sound the same.
Michael’s songs poeticized queer desire and charted hits. Although many ’80s stars embraced gender-bending and flamboyance, like Prince, David Bowie, Lad George, and even Michael Jackson, Michael pushed further, with lyrics that endure as thinly veiled expressions of queer love.
Wham’s breakout second album, Make It Big (1984), catapulted young Michael and Andrew Ridgeley to worldwide notoriety. From the start, their songs oozed with queer resonances, which haven’t been fully unpacked in most of the articles written in Michael’s wake.
The success of “Careless Whisper” (1984) surprised even Michael himself. As he explained to People, “I don’t know why it made such an impression… But it’s ironic that I wrote it when I was 17 and didn’t know much about anything. Certainly nothing much about relationships.”
Michael wrote the anthem to be conspicuously ambiguous about the gender he desired. All the references to “you” and “we” leave us in the dark. That ambiguity allowed listeners acros
George Michael said he was 'persuaded' to stay closeted in Wham! even though he 'really wanted to come out'
George Michael is now known as a LGBTQ+ icon, but the British crooner spent much of his career closeted after seeking advice from "the wrong people."
The novel Netflix documentary "Wham!" uses archival footage to search the "pivotal moment" that Michael came out to his bandmate, Andrew Ridgeley, when the two friends were 19.
Back in 1983, the pop duo traveled to Ibiza, Spain, to film the music video for "Club Tropicana." In the documentary, Ridgeley recalled how Michael phoned him one morning to "come over and have a chat."
Ridgeley found Michael in bed in his hotel room. Shirlie Holliman, their backup singer and shut friend, was also there.
"He gave Shirlie a sort of quick glance. He said to me, 'Didn't know how to explain you this, but I'm gay. If not queer , you know, bisexual,'" Ridgeley said. "For me, his sexuality had absolutely no bearing on us. I wanted him to be happy."
Despite his best friend's acceptance, Michael wouldn't approach out publicly for another 15 years.
"I said I was gonna talk to my mom and dad, and was persuaded in no uncertai