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a b c d "Austrian Charts > George Michael" (in German). austriancharts.at Hung Medien . Retrieved 5 March 2011. Dutchcharts.nl – George Michael – Ladies and Gentlemen – The Best of" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 May 2016. Born in East Finchley, Middlesex, Michael formed the pop duo Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. Their first two albums, Fantastic (1983) and Make It Big (1984), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. Their hit singles included " Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and " Last Christmas". Their tour of China in 1985 was the first by a Western popular music act, and generated worldwide media coverage. [11] [12]

In December 1991, Michael released " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", a duet with Elton John; it reached number one in the UK and US. [3] [7] In 1992, Michael recorded " Too Funky", for the charity project Red Hot + Dance; the song reached number four in the UK and number ten in the US. [3] [7] In 1993, Michael released his version of Somebody To Love, which was performed at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert with Queen. It debuted at number one in the UK and was certified Gold. [3] [4] In early 1996, Michael released " Jesus to a Child", a UK number-one single. [3] The follow-up " Fastlove", also peaked at number one in the UK. [3] Following "Fastlove", the album Older was released, in May 1996. Other singles from the album included " Spinning the Wheel", " Star People '97" and the double A-sides " Older / I Can't Make You Love Me" and " You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing '97". All of these reached the UK top three. [3] Michael released his first greatest hits collection, Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael, in November 1998; it contained the new songs " Outside" and " As", a duet with Mary J. Blige. The album was Michael's most successful in the UK, reaching number one and it was certified 8× Platinum. [3] [4] Caulfield, Keith (3 January 2017). "George Michael's U.S. Music Sales Up 2,678% Following Death". Billboard . Retrieved 5 January 2018. Michael additionally charts one more solo set on the list, the 1998 greatest hits compilation Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael, at No. 84 (11,000 units; up 3,291 percent, with 7,000 sold; up 5,257 percent). After his death in December 2016, it was revealed by Michael's friend Geri Halliwell on The One Show that all of the British profits from the album went to the charity Terrence Higgins Trust.If we feel that we’ve been put through the emotional wringer by that then there’s a little respite on the acoustic string-laden ballad Something To Save, equally introspective but with a little lighter touch. Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011 . Retrieved 27 October 2017. Michael formed the duo Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. On the cusp of fame, he decided to legally change his name to the more accessible George Michael. [4] The band's first album Fantastic reached No. 1 in the UK in 1983 and produced a series of top 10 singles including " Young Guns", " Wham Rap!", and " Club Tropicana". Their second album, Make It Big, reached No. 1 on the charts in the US. Singles from that album included " Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" (No. 1 in the UK and US), " Freedom", " Everything She Wants", and " Careless Whisper" which reached No. 1 in nearly 25 countries, including the UK and US, and was Michael's first solo effort as a single. [13] [14] In December 1984, the single " Last Christmas" was released. [38] In 1985 Michael received the first of his three Ivor Novello Awards for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. [39]

In 2012, Michael entered a relationship with Fadi Fawaz, a Lebanese-Australian celebrity hairstylist and freelance photographer based in London. [180] [181] It was Fawaz who found Michael's body on Christmas morning 2016. [182] [183] Legal troubles Michael performing at a Wham! farewell concert in 1986. Photograph: Pete Still/Redferns 20. Wham! – The Edge of Heaven (1986)Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (George Michael; 'Ladies & Gentlemen...The Best of George Michael ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 27 October 2017. Reviled as the apotheosis of craven, weightless 80s pop, Wham!’s early singles were always more knowing than detractors seemed to notice. Bad Boys is a case in point: wilfully preposterous, extraordinarily camp (“Easy girls – AND LATE NIGHTS! / Cigarettes – AND LOVE BITES!”), it’s a song with its tongue cemented to its cheek that got taken in deadly earnest. 18. George Michael – Amazing (2004)