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RIP George Michael
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Fucking bullshit. He was great.
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George Michael was the first (real) concert I ever attended. I was like 6 or 7 and it was the Faith tour. We had floor seats and I could see him! It was so magical. All of my favorite songs, even some WHAM! songs were performed. For "Monkey" they had audience participation sing a long.
Let's be fair, my older neighbor wanted to gobble George's knob and probably her overplaying of his music is what influenced me. Either way, I got several 33 vinyl singles as gifts during that time of his music. Later I got the full album on cassette. I had a poster of him playing the guitar. I found the "Father Figure" video VERY disturbing, even then, but I loved the song in and of itself.
I look back at some of it, I still love the music, but I'm surprised my parents were as supportive as they were considering how demoralizing they became on anything I happened to like. I'm not going to say this ruined Christmas, I was already in a shitty mood when this news hit my phone. But it definitely sucks.
I don't know what caused his death, but I hope his estate and loved ones can put forth funds to support research and/or prevention, publicly or privately.
George Michael was the first (real) concert I ever attended. I was like 6 or 7 and it was the Faith tour. We had floor seats and I could see him! It was so magical. All of my favorite songs, even some WHAM! songs were performed. For "Monkey" they had audience participation sing a long.
Let's be fair, my older neighbor wanted to gobble George's knob and probably her overplaying of his music is what influenced me. Either way, I got several 33 vinyl singles as gifts during that time of his music. Later I got the full album on cassette. I had a poster of him playing the guitar. I found the "Father Figure" video VERY disturbing, even then, but I loved the song in and of itself.
I look back at some of it, I still love the music, but I'm surprised my parents were as supportive as they were considering how demoralizing they became on anything I happened to like. I'm not going to say this ruined Christmas, I was already in a shitty mood when this news hit my phone. But it definitely sucks.
I don't know what caused his death, but I hope his estate and loved ones can put forth funds to support research and/or prevention, publicly or privately.
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I guess this will be his Last Christmas.
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Ol' Dandy Bastard said:
Nah, this joke may pop up next Christmas - especially because now they are saying heart attack that can be worked into the song.
I don't think people realize how popular he was from like 1987-1990 unless you were alive for it. My cousin Renee was in love with him and had posters of him all over her bedroom walls when she was a teenager. His videos were constantly on MTV and he was arguably the biggest rock/pop star in the world at one point during this time. And if he wasn't he was damn close.
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NoCalMike
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His collaboration with Queen covering "Somebody to Love" at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert was pretty damn amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYAR8RigqDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYAR8RigqDA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-EdCNjumvI
His influence knew no boundaries... RIP
His influence knew no boundaries... RIP
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strummer said:
Same here. I was alive for it, and my young teenage babysitter and her girlfriends loved George Michael......and that's how I became a fan. Not like I was the biggest fan or anything, but he had some catchy pop tunes, and girls of that generation......I was born in late 81.....girls my age and a bit older were nuts for him