Five years after the death of George Michael, and 36 years after the tune was first released, Wham! have taken out the top spot on the British charts with their song Last Christmas. When it was first released the song was kept off the top spot by the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas by BandAid, which […]
George Michael wrote many memorable songs, but Last Christmas might be the one that gets the most plays each year. It’s a Christmas favourite that is played in shops and on radio around the world each festive season. They’ve even made a whole movie based around the song. Now the song’s original music video has been […]
A new single from singer George Michael will be posthumously released on Thursday. The new track, the first since the singers unexpected death on Christmas Day 2016, will make its debut on Chris Evans show on BBC Radio 2 at 9am London time. There’s no news on what the song is called, or when it […]
Three months after his death on Christmas Day, singer George Michael has finally been laid to rest. The singer was buried next to his mother in London’s Highgate cemetery. The service was attended by a small group of close friends and family members. His partner Fadi Fawaz attended the service, a feud with the singer’s family […]
A British coroner has announced that George Michael died of natural causes, the result of heart disease and a fatty liver. Darren Salter, senior coroner for Oxfordshire, said a post-mortem found that the superstar died of “dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver.” Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the heart’s ability to pump […]
Singer George Michael may have left behind as much as three albums worth of unreleased material at the time of his sudden death on Christmas Day. Record companies are apparently scrambling to have leaked tracks removed from internet sites including YouTube in an effort to protect their intellectual property. It’s likely however that the unreleased […]
Singer George Michael has passed away aged 53. The news was announced by the singer’s publicist who said Michael passed away peacefully at home on Christmas Day. In a statement the publicist said; “It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the […]
Pop trio Alcazar are back and ready to leave us crying at another discotheque. This time the Swedish eurodance group have delivered a cover of an old Wham! hit. George Michael and band mate Andrew Ridgely, and backing singers Shirley Holliman and D.C. Lee, released the ‘Young Guns (Go for it!)’ in 1982. It was […]
Strap on your cool kid shoes and gird your loins for the kaleidoscopic aural assault that is: Retro Cassette Friday! Wham! Fantastic 1983 This week opens in onomatopoeic splendour with none other than anyone’s favourite anything ever: Wham! Don’t be fooled by the raw, dark sensuality of Andrew Ridgeley’s distracting chest hair on the cover, […]
Each Friday in the OUTinPerth office we delve into the musical past and pull out three cassettes from bands we’ve most likely totally forgotten about. This week’s lucky dip selection features an odd one sided tape, some acid house and an amazing lady who’s coming to town soon. Was Not Was, Self Titled Island, 1981 […]
