Glenn Walker is a writer who knows pop culture. He loves, hates, and lives pop culture. He knows too freaking much about pop culture, and here's where he talks about it all: movies, music, comics, television, and the rest... Welcome to Hell.
Wow, 2016, you suck. George Michael, the singer-songwriter-producer born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, has passed away peacefully on Christmas Day.
Wham!, or Wham! UK as they were known when I discovered them, was one of my favorite groups, their blue-eyed soul blended with white boy rap was something I hadn't seen before and I dug it. I remember the duo, Michael combined with Andrew Ridgeley, and at the time, Pepsi and Shirlie, as their back-up singers and dancers, were one of my favorite acts. Long before the hit with "Bad Boys" and the megahit album Make It Big, I was a fan.
When George started to become the dominant solo act of the duo, and then went officially solo, I was still there. Songs like "Faith," "I Want Your Sex," and one of my personal favorite songs (and videos) of all time, "Freedom! '90" continued to hurl his star higher. Even sex scandals couldn't keep the man down. His "Last Christmas" is a favorite every holiday season, this one being no exception.
George Michael will be missed, a loss to many, and another victim of an unforgiving year. Love you, man.
Dang it has been a rough year for so much talent. So many of the rest of us have spoken of how tiring and painful 2016 has been as well. It's time we started over, and I'm looking forward to 2017. How about you?
Dang it has been a rough year for so much talent. So many of the rest of us have spoken of how tiring and painful 2016 has been as well. It's time we started over, and I'm looking forward to 2017. How about you?
ReplyDeleteI'm not. I am very afraid 2017 is going to be way worse in every way possible.
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