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George Michael : a life / James Gavin.
This is the first full-scale biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar. Acclaimed music biographer James Gavin traces Michaels 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 Michaels sensational solo career and its subsequent unraveling.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781419747946 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Abrams Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. |
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| Subject: | Michael, George, 1963-2016. Rock musicians > Great Britain > Biography. Singers > Great Britain > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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The biography of George Michael offers an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar. - Baker & Taylor
"The definitive biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar" -- - Baker & Taylor
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 Life explores 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 Gavintraces 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. - Grand Central Pub
In George Michael: A Life, âGavinâs engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating manâ (New York Times Book Review).
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 imageâthat of a hypermacho sex godâloomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hidâfor a timeâthe secret he fought against revealing: Michael was gay. Soon his obsession with fame would start to backfire. As one of the industryâs most privileged yet tortured men began to self-destruct, the press showed little sympathy. George Michael: A Life explores 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 Michaelâs 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 Michaelâs sensational solo career and its subsequent unraveling. With deep analysis of the creative process behind Michaelâs 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. - Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
In George Michael: A Life, âGavinâs engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating manâ (New York Times Book Review).
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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 imageâthat of a hypermacho sex godâloomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hidâfor a timeâthe secret he fought against revealing: Michael was gay. Soon his obsession with fame would start to backfire. As one of the industryâs most privileged yet tortured men began to self-destruct, the press showed little sympathy. George Michael: A Life explores the compelling story of a superstar whose struggles, as well as his songs, continue to touch fans all over the world.
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Acclaimed music biographer James Gavin traces Michaelâs 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 Michaelâs sensational solo career and its subsequent unraveling. With deep analysis of the creative process behind Michaelâs 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.
