2016 Political upheaval and so many great's you have taken.

Guitarhero said:

Sending you George Michael fans some love

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Thanks, that's sweet.

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Wtf is going on ??? Such a beautiful voice...can only think about Cowboys and Angels. Love this song.

IamBryan said:

died peacefully at age 53?? Don't think so...place your bets.... OD? Heart Attack?? AIDS???

six days ago a 27 year old man who lived 3 doors down from me died of a heart attack at home.

anything is possible, i guess. doesn't need to be something sinister.

Telecaster5 said:

Wtf is going on ??? Such a beautiful voice...can only think about Cowboys and Angels. Love this song.

GREAT SONG!!!!

If you happen to watch the Eddie Murphy movie, Boomerang, there are some jazzy music bits within the movie that sound strikingly similar to the groove from Cowboys and Angels.

Wonder if Marcus Miller subconciously "lifted" that piece.

FUCK YOU 2016....just FUCK YOU

[Edited 12/26/16 6:59am]

TrivialPursuit said:

Well shit 2016 - there's 5 days left. Ya wanna snap up Patti LaBelle, Madonna, Adele, Bruce??? You couldn't take Trump, but you're gonna take all these other people.

2016 has no chill.

Don't even joke that. Someone bubble wrap Stevie and Paul.

This year ruined my childhood in one fell swoop.

To no one particular of course death is part of life so stop reminding me.

But it still going to hit hard when death happens to a person you admire, you love, or care. Celebrity or common person or even a freaking dog.

I wonder did he had any closer relatives or friends (I am talking about real friends not the celebrity types). I know his mom died. It appears he was very lonely.

I maybe not be a doctor but how can it be determine that he had a heart failure before doing an autopsy? And also from what I read it appears he was dead more than a day.

RIP George.

IstenSzek said:

IamBryan said:

died peacefully at age 53?? Don't think so...place your bets.... OD? Heart Attack?? AIDS???

six days ago a 27 year old man who lived 3 doors down from me died of a heart attack at home.

anything is possible, i guess. doesn't need to be something sinister.

that's true but musicians usually have drugs somewhere in the equation when this happens. the given reason of "cardiac arrest" is meaningless, anyone who dies has cardiac arrest, it's a term use to keep from jumping to conclusions. They said MJ died of cardiac arrest too, meaningless. Elvis died, it seems, after a heart attack but that doesn't tell or take into account all the drugs and food he ingested which caused the conditions for a heart attack.

Yesterday, after watching Gods and Monsters, I read about the subject of the movie, James Whale. He killed himself and left a not that said he didn't want to suffer and get older and older. The note was suppressed for a number of years. I thought of Prince because honestly, i think he may have been in that situation himself. GM? Too early to tell, what we do know is that he was arrested over cannabis and other drugs leaving him not driving well or sleeping in his car. Could be drugs, also, his serious boyfriend did die of AIDS in the early 90's, i wouldn't discount that either.

Anyway, sorry if this conjecture seems a bit too early in the mourning process for his fans.

ladygirl99 said:

To no one particular of course death is part of life so stop reminding me.

But it still going to hit hard when death happens to a person you admire, you love, or care. Celebrity or common person or even a freaking dog.

I wonder did he had any closer relatives or friends (I am talking about real friends not the celebrity types). I know his mom died. It appears he was very lonely.

I maybe not be a doctor but how can it be determine that he had a heart failure before doing an autopsy? And also from what I read it appears he was dead more than a day.

RIP George.

I can't really feel sorry in that way for these guys in terms of the quality of their lives. I've really disputed people who said they felt sorry for Prince. Prince had a wonderful life. George Michael had a great life considering how many of the millions of people on this earth have to struggle just to survive, i won't feel sorry in that way. Lots of people don't have any friends, it's not a tragedy, sad yes, but not a tragedy.

Adorecream said:

Kev1n thank you, you could not say it any better - George was a true gay icon and he even helped me to come out (Although I did a year earlier in 1997 aged 21). Unlike my first post which was mostly anger at his death and 2016's grim reaper in general - here I will discuss my life with George Michael. First here is another classic by him, again a conscience song with the serious and brooding George Michael, rather than the party model of him.

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My life started with him at 7 when Club Tropicana was a hit and I kind of liked its party feel and the song always made me feel good like a lot of sunny early 80s pop (Culture Club, Michael Jackson, Hayzee Fantasee, all the usual suspects for me). It was a moderate hit, but when "Wake me up before you go go" came out, it was a #1 global hit and made them cross out of UK success to global success as they competed with Culture club for the 1980s British Invasion. After that it was hit after after in 1985 and 1986, everyone loved Careless Whisper and I got the Make it big album in 1985 aged 9, then my brother got the final in 1986. We even liked the filler tracks like "Credit card baby" - come on it had a great melody!

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87 saw Faith come up and again it blew the charts away, all the kids dug him and the hits like on Bad, poured on into 1989, Father Figure, One More Try, Monkey, I want your sex etc. But even then my brother would say "Oh that George Michael is gay,look at his hair, I had no idea what a gay was then - I soon found out by the time Listen without Prejudice dropped in 1990, I had questions about GM and myself. I was 14 and dug the singles - Praying for Time and Freedom90. The latter had a real angry feel and was a contrast next to the party pop of Wham! and the polished sound of Faith. We knew George was having a Barney with Sony and by 1991 I had moved to Color me badd, MJ and even discovered Prince. 1992 had the song Too Funky, which to me was his coming out song (George apparently said he came out on Listen without Prejudice with the song "You have been loved"). All this shouting at models and gay dance beat made me know and then 1993 came and he had the trial with Sony, his hair and outfit were complete Erasure!

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By 1996 I was into Prince and rap, but still made time for Older (The gap between LWP in 1990 and Older in 1996 was interminable). 1996 was a tough year for me, still stuck in the closet but wanting to burst out. 1998 I was and now it seemed so was George. I felt for him, I never approve of cottaging (Cruising the bogs) but I knew he was lonely after Anselmo died. whereas the arrest got all the wrong publicity and caused the gutter media to go wild after all the fuss over Diana's death had died down, GM turned the whole episode into his coming out hit - Outside, which was really funky. Then came the Ladies and Gentlemen, the very best of George Michael, an excellent album I still have today. A good range of hits, duets, new material like Outside and his version of AS featuring Mary J Bilge and a version of a Portuguese fada song called Desafinado. To hammer home the gay factor, it was given to me as an Xmas gift by my first Partner in 1998.

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After that there were a few creative missteps with Songs of the 20th century and the whole Freek! and Shoot the dog thing with its video of Tony Blair as a puppet of Dubya (I like it, but the song was weak - Freek! was quite good. After that we have Patience,(An album I have, but alas I just can't get into. I need to go back to it). Then there was a blur of arrests for drunk and stoned driving, the fat old lorry driver who was caught with GM sucking him off and tabloid crap right up to his death, my newspaper online even had the gall to criticise him for his Xmas single in 2015 stalling at #14 in the UK and called it a flop!

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I ignore that shit, being a big fan of Michael Jackson and Prince, I am kind of wary of the gutter media, English tabloids and TMC type outlets.

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So that is my journey with Georgie - Does anyone care to explain theirs?

I wasn't ever a huge fan of George but I was a fan and did recognize his talent as a songwriter and creative force. He might be, as far as pure pop music, he might be better than anyone in the 80's. Just a natural talent for the radio, Careless Whisper is one of the best songs written by an artist that age. It's a sign of monster talent when a guy like, say, Paul Anka could write hits at 16, MJ wrote the best parts of off the wall at 18 and Prince had I wanna be your lover at 21 or so. I'm your man, a different corner, wake me up, i'd never call my love of his songs a guilty pleasure, just a pure pleasure. Even though he wasn't quite in my heart like Prince, MJ or Bruce, I was a big fan. Faith was his prime material, I didn't personally care much for Listen withough prejudice but i did buy it an listened to it many times, because, i was a fan. maybe i'll check it out again. I still need to check out his later material again, he just lost me with Listen without prejudice.

MotorBootyAffair said:

Telecaster5 said:

Wtf is going on ??? Such a beautiful voice...can only think about Cowboys and Angels. Love this song.

GREAT SONG!!!!

If you happen to watch the Eddie Murphy movie, Boomerang, there are some jazzy music bits within the movie that sound strikingly similar to the groove from Cowboys and Angels.

Wonder if Marcus Miller subconciously "lifted" that piece.

I´ll check this movie! Don´t remember seeing it.

PeteSilas said:

TrivialPursuit said:

You didn't know that? He did a duet with Mary J. Blige and the video is pretty cool.

no i didn't, we had a thread about Prince/George Michael a couple weeks ago and I mentioned that i'd lost interest after Listen Without Prejudice. I wasn't too flattering with everything I said but I didn't know he'd die in two weeks either.

I think it wasn't as big here in the U.S. as it was overseas. It wasn't even on the U.S. version of Ladies and Gentlemen The Best of George Michael, but it was on the international version. As much as GM cites Stevie Wonder as an influence, "As" seems to be a perfect song for him to cover. It did appear on the North American version of Twenty Five.

I'd encourage you to go back to Listen without Prejudice, and especially Older (and find the Upper EP) and take a listen again. Patience is more ballad laced, but very personal.

PeteSilas said:

IstenSzek said:

six days ago a 27 year old man who lived 3 doors down from me died of a heart attack at home.

anything is possible, i guess. doesn't need to be something sinister.

that's true but musicians usually have drugs somewhere in the equation when this happens. the given reason of "cardiac arrest" is meaningless, anyone who dies has cardiac arrest, it's a term use to keep from jumping to conclusions. They said MJ died of cardiac arrest too, meaningless. Elvis died, it seems, after a heart attack but that doesn't tell or take into account all the drugs and food he ingested which caused the conditions for a heart attack.

Yesterday, after watching Gods and Monsters, I read about the subject of the movie, James Whale. He killed himself and left a not that said he didn't want to suffer and get older and older. The note was suppressed for a number of years. I thought of Prince because honestly, i think he may have been in that situation himself. GM? Too early to tell, what we do know is that he was arrested over cannabis and other drugs leaving him not driving well or sleeping in his car. Could be drugs, also, his serious boyfriend did die of AIDS in the early 90's, i wouldn't discount that either.

Anyway, sorry if this conjecture seems a bit too early in the mourning process for his fans.

He was also obese which could've contributed to his death.

derrick31 said:

PeteSilas said:

that's true but musicians usually have drugs somewhere in the equation when this happens. the given reason of "cardiac arrest" is meaningless, anyone who dies has cardiac arrest, it's a term use to keep from jumping to conclusions. They said MJ died of cardiac arrest too, meaningless. Elvis died, it seems, after a heart attack but that doesn't tell or take into account all the drugs and food he ingested which caused the conditions for a heart attack.

Yesterday, after watching Gods and Monsters, I read about the subject of the movie, James Whale. He killed himself and left a not that said he didn't want to suffer and get older and older. The note was suppressed for a number of years. I thought of Prince because honestly, i think he may have been in that situation himself. GM? Too early to tell, what we do know is that he was arrested over cannabis and other drugs leaving him not driving well or sleeping in his car. Could be drugs, also, his serious boyfriend did die of AIDS in the early 90's, i wouldn't discount that either.

Anyway, sorry if this conjecture seems a bit too early in the mourning process for his fans.

He was also obese which could've contributed to his death.

he was obese? George Michael?

TrivialPursuit said:

PeteSilas said:

no i didn't, we had a thread about Prince/George Michael a couple weeks ago and I mentioned that i'd lost interest after Listen Without Prejudice. I wasn't too flattering with everything I said but I didn't know he'd die in two weeks either.

I think it wasn't as big here in the U.S. as it was overseas. It wasn't even on the U.S. version of Ladies and Gentlemen The Best of George Michael, but it was on the international version. As much as GM cites Stevie Wonder as an influence, "As" seems to be a perfect song for him to cover. It did appear on the North American version of Twenty Five.

I'd encourage you to go back to Listen without Prejudice, and especially Older (and find the Upper EP) and take a listen again. Patience is more ballad laced, but very personal.

i've been meaning to, the last couple weeks, even without him dying. Now i definitely will.

jaypotton said:

Despite Prince being the most important artist in my life I have to concede that it was GM who performed the definitive version of ICMYLM (sorry Bonnie and Prince but he blew you both away).

agree. so much better than either one of them sang it.

derrick31 said:

PeteSilas said:

that's true but musicians usually have drugs somewhere in the equation when this happens. the given reason of "cardiac arrest" is meaningless, anyone who dies has cardiac arrest, it's a term use to keep from jumping to conclusions. They said MJ died of cardiac arrest too, meaningless. Elvis died, it seems, after a heart attack but that doesn't tell or take into account all the drugs and food he ingested which caused the conditions for a heart attack.

Yesterday, after watching Gods and Monsters, I read about the subject of the movie, James Whale. He killed himself and left a not that said he didn't want to suffer and get older and older. The note was suppressed for a number of years. I thought of Prince because honestly, i think he may have been in that situation himself. GM? Too early to tell, what we do know is that he was arrested over cannabis and other drugs leaving him not driving well or sleeping in his car. Could be drugs, also, his serious boyfriend did die of AIDS in the early 90's, i wouldn't discount that either.

Anyway, sorry if this conjecture seems a bit too early in the mourning process for his fans.

He was also obese which could've contributed to his death.

Are you kidding me?? This year has to be cursed. No atheism can explain this. omg

derrick31 said:

He was also obese which could've contributed to his death.

George Michael wasn't obese.

maplenpg said:

derrick31 said:

He was also obese which could've contributed to his death.

just saw some pics of him, they said they are the last pics and they were taken months ago, how/why would a star be so reclusive as to not have pics taken of him at all? that's kinda unusual in itself. it's the sun so take it with a grain of salt.

derrick31 said:

He was also obese which could've contributed to his death.

Untrue, .

Is the unplugged even available?

CynicKill said:

Is the unplugged even available?

It is as part of Listen Without Prejudice set sold on his site.

What a beautiful voice

Not really a tribute per-se but may lift some spirits if you've not seen it already: