on the Billboard Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks, becoming the best-selling single of 1988 in the US.

On 7 September 2017, a new version reworked by Nile Rodgers was released as a single from Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged (2017). George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. Although I had always had safe sex, I didn't want to sleep with a woman without telling her I was bisexual. They seemed an odd couple, but Andrew became Georgios' mentor and they soon bonded over a shared love of music. a b " 'I will never stop missing you': George Michael's Australian boyfriend found him dead in bed".At the time of his death, Michael was estimated to have sold between 100 million and 125 million records worldwide. He felt so lonely and disconnected from those audiences because he had sold them a lie, having created a George Michael character that had very little to do with who he actually was.

George Michael's burning ambition, incredible talent, and dark secrets are examined by James Gavin in this engrossing behind-the-scenes portrait. In the UK, the album was particularly notable for producing a record six top three hit singles in a two-year span.

The Radio Academy stated that Michael was the most frequently played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004. That duality, and the toxic atmosphere of shame and fear-mongering it created, made them targets for being outed, attacked or worse, and that fear spilled over into much of the ’90s. Michael's first solo single, "Careless Whisper" (1984), reached number one in over 20 countries, including the UK and US. George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou ( Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου) on 25 June 1963, in East Finchley. disbanded that year, Michael released the number-one duet with Aretha Franklin, " I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)".