December 25th, 2016 at 7:03 PM ^
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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December 25th, 2016 at 7:10 PM ^
Edited to tempt fate less.
December 25th, 2016 at 9:38 PM ^
2017 will be better. You gotta have faith faith faith
December 25th, 2016 at 10:45 PM ^
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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.
December 25th, 2016 at 8:40 PM ^
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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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December 25th, 2016 at 7:22 PM ^
Man, him AND Ron Glass from the cast of "Barney Miller" left us this year too.
2016 really has been unkind to my childhood / teenage years.
I think I'll throw "Faith" in the loop later - that was agood album and George Michael really was a talented artist.
December 25th, 2016 at 10:46 PM ^
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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.
December 25th, 2016 at 7:22 PM ^
RIP George
2016 is ruthless
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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!
December 25th, 2016 at 7:45 PM ^
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While it may have been good for the Middle School dance, it was even better in college!
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Listening to "Last Christmas"... go away 2016, but give us a few more commits first.
December 26th, 2016 at 9:49 AM ^
I read "Give us a few more commits first" to mean "a few more celebrity deaths" first.
(I'm perfectly fine with the literal meaning.)
December 25th, 2016 at 7:30 PM ^
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Wow 2016 continues to taketh away. GM was just immensely talented, great artist. One of the best music videos of all time - Freedom 90, put the original supermodels on the map. Need to listen to it tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A
RIP
December 25th, 2016 at 7:39 PM ^
Died from what? Man that's too young.
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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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2016 feigned us with the left(Princess Leia) then took us out with the right(George Michael).
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Do they know it's Christmas?
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Not ashamed to say I liked his music.
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.