OT: RIP George Michael

Submitted by Heptarch on

2016 throwing punches on its way out the door...

RIP George Michael.

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WolverineLake

December 25th, 2016 at 7:03 PM ^

Some details...

Ex-Wham! singer George Michael dies

BBC News - 33m ago


Singer George Michael has died aged 53, his publicist has said. The star, who launched his career with Wham! in the 1980s and later continued his success as a solo performer, is said to have "passed away peacefully at home". https://goo.gl/GjsSKV



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alum96

December 25th, 2016 at 7:12 PM ^

I think due to some "bubble gum" songs esp in Wham, he was never quite appreciated for as talented as he was. 

With Prince, George Michael, and MJ could make the case the 3 biggest male solo acts of the 80s all gone.  Then take away Whitney on the female side and you basically have Madonna that is all that is left from the global superstars of that decade.  Damn. 

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Muttley

December 26th, 2016 at 9:39 AM ^

which IMO could have reached Led Zeppelin-level status if they weren't always infighting.  But perhaps the constant in-and-out fighting had something to do with the edge in the music they did manage to make.

Appetite for Destruction released in 1987 makes them an 80's band.

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Alumnus93

December 26th, 2016 at 9:45 AM ^

Agreed. I thought the same thing that they could have been led Zeppelin level. The fail had to also do with Axl and drugs. His spaghetti incident album, he lost his mind. Terrible music. He lives here in NYC and I said if I ever bore into him I'd slug him and tell him they blew it.

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December 25th, 2016 at 7:20 PM ^

I just heard this on NPR myself. Obviously there's something more to this than just dying peacefully at 53. I was never a fan or paid any attention to him other than whatever you'd hear about him now and then by consuming mainstream media, but he's still someone that's been part of the background landscape of public life and music for a long damn time and now there goes another damn one!

I'm really tired of losing so many names I've known for so long, even if they weren't someone I really paid attention to, they're still part of the scene you know and get used to in one sense or another and they oughta still be around! Damn.

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alum96

December 25th, 2016 at 7:41 PM ^

Certainly one of the top songs - if not the top one - of my generation of middle school dances where 100 boys stood to one side of the floor and 100 girls stood on the other while 8 "couples" actually danced in the middle.

This is a great rendition of the opening if you like the sax!

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Hard-Baughlls

December 25th, 2016 at 7:41 PM ^

I think he had HIV / Pneumonia?  Was he recently getting more sick?

Very ironic that he died on Christmas given the song - perhaps assisted suicide or they decided to let him off the machines today?

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Muttley

December 26th, 2016 at 9:44 AM ^

I didn't care for that "style" of music, but I did like his songs.

Back in the day, I preferred harder or funkier music, but I'd do a little body movement dance in my seat when Wake Me Up came on.

I admit it.

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