Here are the five most fascinating revelations about GeorgeMichael’s life, courtesy ofAndrewRidgeley
, Ridgeley, now 56, forgoes the standard story-of-my-life details to focus on his decade of friendship with the music icon. It’s an exhilarating journey that started on the first day of school in England in September 1975, when then-12-year-old Andy volunteered to mentor the new kid in class who went by the difficult-to-pronounce name of Georgios Panayiotou. The pair became fast friends, bonding over a mutual love of David Bowie and Elton John. Just six years later, they formed Wham!.
It quickly became clear, however, that the charismatic lead singer was not only the star of the show, but one of the biggest talents in the business. Michael achieved icon status; Ridgeley, recognizing his creative limitations, briefly took up professional motor racing and released a minor-selling album of his own before exiting the business for good. They stayed in touch peripherally.
What happened in between? Here are the five most fascinating revelations about Michael’s life, courtesy of the man who proudly calls himself his best friend.“Yog,” as Ridgeley nicknamed him, was deeply insecure. His Greek father was a strong character and narrow-minded about the world, determined that his son become a success. “That Yog was a more sensitive boy would have only exacerbated the effect of that,” he writes.
Nonetheless, he made a conscious effort to conceal his sexuality in the press. The decision took an emotional toll. “George was adamant his sexuality should be kept under wraps, which created a wholly unwelcome extra level of stress for him to manage,” Ridgeley says, adding that he never met his friend’s paramours. “But he feared coming out at the time of [the tour] Whamamerica! would scupper any chances he might have of competing with artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson in the States.
Still, Michael was palpably upset in the days after the gathering . Paul Weller of The Jam “had taken exception to George’s description earlier in the year of the miner’s union leader Arthur Scargillas ‘a wanker’ and told him so,” Ridgeley writes. “Unknowingly, Weller had hit a raw nerve.” He also notes that the competitive Michael later became miffed that the Band Aid sing-along overtook Wham!’s “Last Christmas” as the most popular Christmas song in Britain that year.
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