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George Michael concert in September 2012 in Paris
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world hits, the drugs, the forced outing: the life of the British singer George Michael was full of Extreme and many puzzles. An autopsy to clarify the death of the “Last Christmas”singer.
Bloss “Last Christmas!” As a radio presenter barricaded in the past year in the Studio of Antenne Kärnten for two hours, and the Christmas hit in an endless loop, played, walked the listeners by storm. No wonder: Hardly a Christmas song polarized such. For a reason enough to switch, call but at least 34 percent of the Germans “Last Christmas” as her favorite Christmas song, revealed a recent survey.
today is “Last Christmas” one of the biggest Hits of the British Popduos Wham! – also thanks to a video, in which singer George Michael trudges through the deep snow and his unfaithful loved one the evil eye to throw.
candy, colorful, smooth and clean, embodying the “Last Christmas” is all what 80s Pop was so successful – and what was hypocritical because at the same time. Because while Michael played his role as a heartthrob to the Outside perfectly, wrestled with it, his homosexuality to hide.
in 1998, he outed himself, but forced A police officer in civilian clothes arrested him in a public toilet, which was as a meeting place of Gay men known, in Los Angeles.
A lifetime of varied Michael between the Extremes of Musical successes, on the one hand, private scandals and health problems, on the other – were his Fans, often in great concern to him. Now, he died suddenly at his home in Goring in Oxfordshire – just on January 1. Christmas day.
death due to heart failure?
“do We have to inform with great Regret, the deceased, our beloved son, brother and friend George at Christmas, peacefully in his home,” it said in a notice from Michael’s Management. “The family asks that their privacy is respected during this emotional time. It is for the time being, be no further statements."
What is the cause of death was, his spokeswoman Cindi Berger said nothing. They told the news Agency AP that the musician had not been sick.
Later that night, his Manager Michael Lippman announced that the 53-Year-old had died of heart failure. There should soon be a post-mortem examination.
In the past years there have been alarming reports about the health condition of the superstar, with Songs like “Faith” and “Freedom” in the world famous, and a total of almost 100 million records sold. An inflammation of the lungs brought him back in 2011, in Vienna, to the death.
Actually, he had recovered, his experiences even in the Song “White Light” is processed, and occurred, among other things, at the closing ceremony of the Olympic games in London 2012. But then again, a shock: The singer fell out of a moving car on the highway. What happened exactly has never been clarified. Many asked themselves: What is the matter with George Michael?
“So many people, terrible things happened”
Michael was already several drugs in the blood behind the wheel on the road, had to give up his driver’s license, community service and in 2010, even eight weeks in jail. Sometimes the waves seemed to smooth out in his life again.
George Michael has always lived in Extremes – but the sympathy for him did not diminish. Around his house in North London, had settled in the meantime, a colorful community of famous friends, including Model Kate Moss. The singer had spent most of his life in London. As the son of a Greek-Cypriot immigrant and an English mother, he was born in the British capital.
After the big Wham!-Be done with school friend Andrew Ridgeley he experienced in the 90s, many personal misfortunes, particularly the death of his mother and his life’s companions rushed him into deep crises, as he told in an Interview with the news Agency dpa: “So many people I loved, terrible things happened. It was almost bizarre."
Open, Michael admitted that he took marijuana and painkillers. In a TV Interview, he revealed in 2007 that his problems with his self-destructive trains and a attention greed character.
His own biography on his website, anyway, Michael opened with the iconic words: “we All know who George Michael is. Or at least you think you know it."
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