George Michael
- Profession: Musician
- Place/Date of Birth: Finchley, 25 June 2020
He made the confession in an interview with Michael Parkinson, screened on ITV1 on May 19.
George slams teenagers with guns - May 22 2007
George Michael has spoken out against glorifying "teenagers brandishing guns" in the media such as in the Virginia Tech massacre.
He told the crowd at his concert in Denmark: "Virginia Tech is one of the worst kinds of mass slaying of students yet.
"Isn’t it about time we stopped putting these f******’ faces in the papers? They are nobodies."
The singer kicked off his European tour with a sell-out concert at the Aarhus Stadium - three weeks before he becomes the first artist to play the new Wembley Stadium in London.
The UK leg of his 25 Live 2007 Stadium Tour will also take in Manchester, Glasgow, Plymouth and Norwich.
He is also set to visit France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Holland and Hungary.
He will play Wembley on June 9 and 10, where he has played several high-profile shows including Live Aid in 1985 and the Wham farewell concert in 1986.
George defends cannabis smoking - May 21 2007
Troubled star George Michael has revealed he is addicted to prescription drugs and believes the world would be a better place if more people smoked marijuana.
He may quit Britain to escape media attention but says of the time he was caught cruising on Hampstead Heath: "Believe me, I think that the sex I have is worth being in the paper for!"
The star attributed his erratic behaviour to an attention-seeking and "self-destructive" impulse brought on by the death of his mother a decade ago.
George made the series of startling confessions in an interview with Michael Parkinson.
Earlier this month he pleaded guilty to driving while unfit through drugs after he was found slumped over the wheel of his car.
Explaining the cause of the incident, the former Wham! star said: "It involves prescribed drugs and it involves a dependency on them, and the tendency to chase one drug with another because of side effects."
He added that he could not say more because legal proceedings are still ongoing. He will be sentenced at Brent Magistrates’ Court in north-west London on May 30.
The arrest was one of a string of bizarre episodes in recent years which have left fans worried for the 43-year-old star’s wellbeing.
Asked by Parky if his "childish behaviour" was a bid to court publicity, George admitted: "Well, I have to ask myself, don’t I?
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Michael had hit after hit with Wham! - Club Tropicana, Wham Rap, Wake me Up Before You Go Go all remain classics, featuring on every best of the eighties compilation going. Whilst in Wham! George had solo success with one of his most famous hits, Careless Whisper.
When the mighty Wham! split in 1986 Michael found he had to prove himself to music critics who thought he was just another flash in the pan boy band reject. He did it easily with hit after hit, a duet with Aretha Franklin and a blue eyed soul boy image. In the nineties he kept the good work up, duetting with Elton John on Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me and in 1992 was announced to be one of the richest men in the UK thanks to incredible record sales.
But in the mid to late nineties things started to turn sour with George’s record label, Sony and despite producing one of the most successful albums of the decade with Older, he left Sony to create his own label - Aegean Records. A year later George hit the headlines after being arrested for committing ’lewd acts’ in a public toilet (you all know that story), forcing the singer to come out publicly.
Many thought it would be the end of his career, but the master of reinvention hit back with arguably his finest single to date, Outside. The video for his hit single featured the cheeky Greek dressed as a policeman gyrating about a disco-balled toilet, a great two fingers up to the press and police who had outed him. George has since played up his gayness, recently telling the world about his ’open relationship’ with boyfriend Kenny Goss and his ’Vanilla’ tastes in sex. In between revealing all he has become increasingly political, releasing slated single Freeeek!, an anti Iraq war song and using interviews to champion the causes close to his heart.
The ex Wham! star remains a force to be reckoned with even after announcing that he is bowing out of the music business to release his recordings online for free. Good news for skint George Michael fans, not so much for the industry.
By Laura Walton
October 2007