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In 1990, George Michael balked at the pressures of fame and celebrity in an interview. Frank Sinatra’s advice? “Come on, George. Loosen up. Swing, man.” When Michael released his sophomore solo album ...

On a new four-disc reissue of George Michael’s mostly acoustic, bossa nova-inflected LP from 1990, the pleasures of the flesh co-exist with a deepening spiritual malaise. For Michael, as ever, ...

Before he passed away at the end of last year, George Michael was thinking about his legacy and revisiting his old songs. In 1990, Michael had recorded a track called “Fantasy,” originally intended to ...

When Lorde dropped her new song-of-the-summer hopeful “Solar Power” two weeks ago, a lot of people noticed the fact that it has some similarities to George Michael’s classic “Freedom ’90” from his ...

In 1998, George Michael came out to the world after he was arrested by an undercover policeman for engaging in a lewd act in a public bathroom. But, long before that scandalous outing occurred at Will ...