RIP George Michael

[gomgeg]

me niether, flippent yes

 

on a side note just been seeing on tv about his "annonymous" charity payments that he did.

 

Visiting homeless centres

Gave a student nurse £5000 tip as she served him as a waitress but had debts

etc etc

 

he did it out of the goodness of his heart, all annonymously rather than to make him look big

How do they know that?

[melthebell]

How do they know that?

dunno i presume people who recieved money or met him at homeless centres etc came out once he'd died?

[cressida]

He donated £10,000 to F.C. United

[mickey finn]

How do they know that?

 

His accounts have been published somewhere, there is a huge list of donations made over the recent years.

[top4718]

I was always take or leave it with Wham and his solo stuff but can appreciate he was a talented songwriter and singer, seems his life went off the rails towards the end with various reports of him being found slumped in his car and actually crashing it into a shop at one stage.

 

Careless Whisper, A Different Corner, Cowboys & Angels were great songs that he wrote and Somebody To Love and As good covers.

 

A very principled and charitable man as well by all accounts.

[gomgeg]

His accounts have been published somewhere, there is a huge list of donations made over the recent years.

I just wondered how you donate something anonymously, then it gets in the media. If his wish was to be anonymous surely that should have been respected.

[top4718]

I just wondered how you donate something anonymously, then it gets in the media. If his wish was to be anonymous surely that should have been respected.

 

People have revealed it after his death he can't really stop that!!

[crookedspire]

People have revealed it after his death he can't really stop that!!

 

I think George Micheal was an private person I sure he did more that will over time come out. I knew he once helped out at an London homeless refuge an pass a by snapped an photo of him while he was emptying some boxes.

[blake]

never especially liked his music at all, but it has to be said that when he got busted in Beverly Hills in 1998 it was a really pivotal moment for gays in Britain at least - if not in the US.

 

he must have woken up and thought his whole world had been destroyed only he found looking at the British newspapers, that nobody could care less if he was a gay or not. In the 1990s, attitudes towards gays had changed a great deal only it took George's Beverly Hills bust, to highlight it.

 

he should have come out sooner.

Edited December 30, 2016 by blake

[crookedspire]

One of the reasons why George Micheal didn't come out earlier was fear. Remember when Wham was in the charts the AIDs crisis was in full flow gay people were blamed for the disease that seemed unstoppable the media and TV ads of the time were full of stories of horror not really a great time to say ' by the way I'm gay' the media would have gone into over drive that would have ended George's career. Aside this factor coming out is an personal journey fear of rejection from family and friends on finding out the truth been an superstar who's life watched by the media undoubtedly made things even harder for him. The paradox of George Micheal is he gave hints in is ' Older' album of 1997 songs like ' Fastlove' a song about one night stands cruising into the dark for fastlove the album hints of an gay man feeling trapped but one song ends with the lyrics ' I'm free' that suggest he's come to terms with his sexuality.