George Michael: A Life

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As Emily Herbert shows in this new biography, his legacy is not just his music, but his many extraordinary, and often anonymous, acts of charity.

This development led to cancellations and postponements of Michael's remaining 2011 performances, which had been scheduled mainly for the United Kingdom. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards on 12 February 2017, Adele performed a slow version of " Fastlove" in tribute to Michael.The court then ruled that Rodríguez, as a public official, could not legally recover damages for emotional distress. In February 2003, Michael recorded another song in protest against the looming Iraq war, Don McLean's "The Grave". The album includes the original version of "Fantasy" and the 1998 version; [144] the Nile Rodgers remix was not included on the disc but was made available to purchasers as a digital download.

His next single was " Shoot the Dog" which was released in July 2002 during the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At times heartbreaking to read, the through line of the book is both George’s immense talent and his darker side — George’s discomfort in his own beautiful skin, his self-destructive tendencies, his internalized homophobia, and his creative struggles.In June 2008, Michael told the Los Angeles Times that his maternal grandmother was Jewish, but she married a non-Jewish man and raised her children with no knowledge of their Jewish background due to her fear during World War II. C. as part of Equality Rocks, a concert to benefit the Human Rights Campaign, [220] an American LGBT rights group.