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Wham had openly gay members including George. I remember the media kinda going hard at dude when he dropped I want your sex. The media was giving mj and michael a hard time about the thrusting and shyt in their videos.
The sexuality rumors started ramping up when faith dropped. Which in time led him to drop Freedom 90 which I always thought was his coming out song and a diss to the media and powers that be. As a a youngin even though George Michael was good for the fukkery, dude one of the first artists I noticed get that mj kanye media treatment
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I think it's kinda ignorant for people to assume he had AIDS just because he was gay...
That being said, he probably did have it. Because I saw (I think) Behind The Music on him about 10 yrs ago and he talked about being in a relationship w someone who had it and died of it. He probably got it.
But damn man, George had them hits, some of which got big play on R&B radio- in the 80s, a lot of white artists had songs that got that airplay- him, Sting, Phil Collins, Madonna, Hall & Oates, Michael McDonald, Tears for Fears, Human League, Duran Duran, Euryhtmics, Nu Shooz, ABC, Howard Jones, Level 42, etc...
R.I.P. GM
Lines weren't really drawn in the sand and declared "black" or "white" music until grunge music and neo soul took off
It kinda ended around the end of the 80s tho, really... I'd say around '90, the stations started to become more divided again. Mid/late 80s were probably the most diverse that pop and R&B stations ever got to be.
Even in the 80s tho, there was still that division... after disco, pop radio was staying away from black music until MJ and Prince broke thru. Even then, a lot of songs that were big in R&B didn't make a dent on the pop charts. A song could be #1 on the "Hot Black Singles" chart and not make #100 on the Hot 100.
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RIP, he was a real artist
its his lineup.
only white buls with lineups that sharp are either metro-sexuals or homos.
Austin aries lineups are the sharpest a regular white guy can take it.
yea
this is kinda the main reason why so many black artists were pandering to the mainstream, selling out & losing their identities in the '80s.
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British pop star George Michael, who died over the weekend at the age of 53, was famous for his sex appeal, his songwriting gifts and his enduring voice — and for his personal life, which was treated as tabloid fodder.
But not everything he did made headlines.
Since Michael's death, charities and fans have revealed that the iconic singer was also a dedicated philanthropist — making large donations, and working hard to keep them out of the public eye.
Among the charities he quietly aided, The Associated Press reports, were Macmillan Cancer Support, Childline, and the London-based HIV-awareness organization Terrence Higgins Trust.
Michael donated the royalties from "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," his 1991 duet with Elton John, to the Trust, the AP reports. Michael kept his repeated donations to the Trust private.
The proceeds from the 1996 song "Jesus to a Child" went to Childline, the wire service says. The founder of the organization told the AP that Michael had donated millions of dollars over the years, and was "determined" that no one outside the charity know how much he had given.
And on Twitter, news of more donations — big and small — have been spilling out. DJ Mick Brown said when he would run a charity drive at Easter, George would call in every year, at the same time, with a 100,000-pound donation (more than $122,000 today; it would have been worth even more at previous exchange rates).
Richard Osman, who was the executive producer of Deal or No Deal, says the star once secretly donated 15,000 pounds for a contestant who said she needed money for IVF treatment.
Michael frequently gave performances to support charities. He held a free concert for nurses in the U.K. after his mother died, saying he realized how "undervalued" nurses are and wanted to thank them for their work. And he was part of the original star-studded Band Aid charity recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
But aside from those concerts, Michael's charitable works rarely made headlines. Tabloids would luridly cover Michael's sex life and drug problems, while dedicating just two sentences to a donation. And that's when his donations were public information — and based on the reports appearing now, Michael frequently requested anonymity or no publicity around his charity.
One woman on Twitter says she volunteered alongside him at a homeless shelter — an act he asked the other volunteers to keep quiet about.
n 1993, Michael spoke to MTV about a charity album that he recorded for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the AIDS-fighting organization founded in Freddie Mercury's honor.
The Independent noted at the time that the interview was unusual, because "George Michael doesn't like to talk about the amount of work he does for charity."
And Michael made it clear he wasn't there to talk up his own work:
"Everyone's got really pissed off listening to celebrities patting each other on the back saying how generous they are being," he told MTV. "And they are right to.
"The reason I am doing this interview is to support the Phoenix Trust," Michael said, according to The Independent. "It's very important these tracks get heard."
But not everything he did made headlines.
Since Michael's death, charities and fans have revealed that the iconic singer was also a dedicated philanthropist — making large donations, and working hard to keep them out of the public eye.
Among the charities he quietly aided, The Associated Press reports, were Macmillan Cancer Support, Childline, and the London-based HIV-awareness organization Terrence Higgins Trust.
Michael donated the royalties from "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," his 1991 duet with Elton John, to the Trust, the AP reports. Michael kept his repeated donations to the Trust private.
The proceeds from the 1996 song "Jesus to a Child" went to Childline, the wire service says. The founder of the organization told the AP that Michael had donated millions of dollars over the years, and was "determined" that no one outside the charity know how much he had given.
And on Twitter, news of more donations — big and small — have been spilling out. DJ Mick Brown said when he would run a charity drive at Easter, George would call in every year, at the same time, with a 100,000-pound donation (more than $122,000 today; it would have been worth even more at previous exchange rates).
Richard Osman, who was the executive producer of Deal or No Deal, says the star once secretly donated 15,000 pounds for a contestant who said she needed money for IVF treatment.
Michael frequently gave performances to support charities. He held a free concert for nurses in the U.K. after his mother died, saying he realized how "undervalued" nurses are and wanted to thank them for their work. And he was part of the original star-studded Band Aid charity recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
But aside from those concerts, Michael's charitable works rarely made headlines. Tabloids would luridly cover Michael's sex life and drug problems, while dedicating just two sentences to a donation. And that's when his donations were public information — and based on the reports appearing now, Michael frequently requested anonymity or no publicity around his charity.
One woman on Twitter says she volunteered alongside him at a homeless shelter — an act he asked the other volunteers to keep quiet about.
n 1993, Michael spoke to MTV about a charity album that he recorded for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the AIDS-fighting organization founded in Freddie Mercury's honor.
The Independent noted at the time that the interview was unusual, because "George Michael doesn't like to talk about the amount of work he does for charity."
And Michael made it clear he wasn't there to talk up his own work:
"Everyone's got really pissed off listening to celebrities patting each other on the back saying how generous they are being," he told MTV. "And they are right to.
"The reason I am doing this interview is to support the Phoenix Trust," Michael said, according to The Independent. "It's very important these tracks get heard."
People don't recall, but that was what was so great about Bobby Brown's and Janet's success... they came with straight black R&B attitude and still had huge pop success. Everybody else that made it on the pop charts kinda switched it up or toned it down for that MTV money.
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I don't know if breh had the germ brehs...this nikka had gotten REAL 
George Michael Struggled with Weight Before Death (PHOTOS)
George Michael Struggled with Weight Before Death (PHOTOS)
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looking like a British Rob KardashianI don't know if breh had the germ brehs...this nikka had gotten REAL
George Michael Struggled with Weight Before Death (PHOTOS)
He had a beard at the time.
It's amazing how Prince, MJ and George Michael are three of the GOAT Icons of the 80s and they ALL got jerked by their record labels. He was on that slave shyt before Prince.
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#ninergang
No lie, coming up in the 80's dude was really like one of the few artists that I fukked with heavy, I think I talked about how underrated WHAM was as a group, and George Michael does not get enough credit for how much he influenced pop and R&B. Dude has the voice of an angel and he clearly had a hell of a talent for writing.
Peace to his familiy and friends.
Some of my favorites,
Peace to his familiy and friends.
Some of my favorites,
