George Michael

By James Gavin,

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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…

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1 author picked George Michael as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This, for me, was a true page-turner. I highly recommend this biography, even if you’re not, or weren’t, a George Michael fan.

I knew of George Michael’s music, but I knew next to nothing about who he was, where he came from, or what drove him to succeed. In this book, it’s all here, the difficult childhood with an overbearing father, the awkward early years, the chance meeting and life-long friendship with Andrew Ridgley, and George’s sordid sex life.

James Gavin shares with us all the intimate details, up to and including his death, and does it in a heartfelt,…

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