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George Michael : A Life.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gavin, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Singers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Singers.
- Gay men--Great Britain--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Rock musicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Rock musicians.
- Great Britain.
- Michael, George, 1963-2016.
- Michael, George.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Gay biographies.
- LGBTQ+ biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., 2022.
- Summary:
- The definitive biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image--that of a hypermacho sex god--loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid--for a time--the secret he fought against revealing: Michael was gay. Soon his obsession with fame would start to backfire. As one of the industry's most privileged yet tortured men began to self-destruct, the press showed little sympathy. George Michael: A Lifeexplores the compelling story of a superstar whose struggles, as well as his songs, continue to touch fans all over the world. Acclaimed music biographer James Gavin traces Michael's metamorphosis from the shy and awkward Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou into the swaggering, dominant half of the leading British pop duo of the 1980s Wham!; he then details Michael's sensational solo career and its subsequent unraveling. With deep analysis of the creative process behind Michael's albums, tours, and music videos, as well as interviews with hundreds of his friends and colleagues, George Michael: A Life is a probing, definitive portrait of a pop legend.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Chapter Nineteen
- Chapter Twenty
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Chapter Twenty-Two
- Chapter Twenty-Three
- Chapter Twenty-Four
- Chapter Twenty-Five
- Chapter Twenty-Six
- Chapter Twenty-Seven
- Chapter Twenty-Eight
- Chapter Twenty-Nine
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Commercial Album Discography
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Searchable Terms
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gavin, James George Michael
- ISBN:
- 9781647006730
- OCLC:
- 1333268222
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