British pop star George Michael apologized to fans on Sunday and promised to "sort himself out" after his arrest and caution by police for possession of drugs. Michael, 45,...
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British pop star George Michael has a tip for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama -- team up with former rival Hillary Clinton. Michael, 45, touring...
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The audience at Los Angeles' Forum gave George Michael a special present just before the second half of his two-hour performance Wednesday: a spontaneous arena-wide...
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George Michael is a most happy fellow these days: He's kicking off his first North American tour in 17 years and same-sex marriage has just been legalized in California. ...
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George Michael showed off more than just his voice last night during the opening show of his new 25 Live tour. "You could tell he wasn't wearing underwear,"...
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George Michael feels real good with Dita Von Teese by his side. When the British pop singer launches his 25 Live tour tonight in San Diego, he'll also debut a new video...
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British singer and former Wham! frontman George Michael announced what his spokeswoman called his last ever big-venue gigs on Wednesday. The 44-year-old recording star said...
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American Idol wants some freedom. The big surprise guest performer during the American Idol finale tomorrow night will be "Freedom" hit-maker George Michael, a...
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A bit of Britain has arrived in Texas, thanks to English pop star George Michael and his Texan partner Kenny Goss. The couple has begun displaying their collection of edgy,...
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For George Michael fans, it pays to have faith. The '80s icon-turned-dramedy plot point has announced plans for his first tour of the U.S. and Canada in more than 17...
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In what his publisher calls a record-breaking deal, British pop superstar George Michael is working on a memoir to come out in the fall of 2009.
HarperCollins says the...
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George Michael is enlisting his fans to read without prejudice.
The 44-year-old British singer has inked a reported $7 million deal with HarperCollins in the U.K. to...
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Pop star George Michael will write a
no-holds-barred biography to appear in autumn 2009 after
signing what HarperCollins called "one of the biggest book
deals ever concluded...
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A careless whisperer, maybe. But George Michael wants the world to know he's not a careless smoker.
The Listen Without Prejudice singer gave a wide-ranging interview...
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George Michael has asked the BBC to remove an interview in which he openly discusses his fears of having HIV.
The BBC has since confirmed that the interview will no longer...
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George Michael has been slapped with a $250,000 fine because his performance at Wembley Stadium on June 9 this year overran.
According to a spokesperson for the venue,...
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George Michael became the first singer to perform at the new Wembley Stadium on Saturday, June 9, nearly seven years after the last concert at the London venue.
The veteran...
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George Michael escaped jail term after he arrived at court for sentencing this morning (June 8) at Brent Magistrates Court in north London.
After pleading guilty to the...
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Apparently, it is possible for a celebrity to escape jail time in connection with a traffic violation and not cause a national uproar. At least it's possible outside the...
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An accident involving one of the trucks
carrying concert equipment for George Michael forced the
British pop singer to cancel a show in Prague on Saturday, the
Web site of a...
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George Michael has welcomed the ongoing legal process surrounding his arrest last year when he was found slumped at the wheel of his car in London.
The pop icon appeared in...
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Going under the knife is not compulsory
but being sculpted as the perfect lookalike sure helps in
Britain's burgeoning tribute band business.
Get an Elvis nose job,...
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George Michael may not go-go to jail. But he clearly went-went to the pharmacy.
It was revealed in London court Wednesday that the erstwhile Wham! frontman was playing...
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George Michael has donated John Lennon's piano to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, it has been confirmed.
The U.K. pop star is understood to have given the iconic...
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Singer George Michael said he may quit
Britain to escape the relentless media attention on his
troubled private life.
He admitted to a dependency on prescription drugs,...
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George Michael has admitted that he wasn't in the best shape to be driving at the time he was found passed out behind the wheel of his car last fall.
On the first day...
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British pop singer Elton John
celebrated his 60th birthday at Madison Square Garden on Sunday
by recalling late Beatle John Lennon and raising his own record
for most...
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News flash: George Michael is a careless driver.
London authorities have lodged an additional drug count against the former Wham! man, stemming from an arrest in October...
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Singer George Michael will be the first
pop artist to play a concert at the new Wembley Stadium, the
venue's managing director said on Sunday.
Michael's gig at the...
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British singer George Michael
has announced a follow-up tour after his successful "25 Live"
concerts in 2006, his management said on Friday.
The first confirmed date of...
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As far as George Michael is concerned, being found passed out behind the wheel of his car with a small amount of marijuana at his side does not an unfit driver...
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The singer George Michael will appear
before a British court in January charged with being unfit to
drive, police in London said on Sunday.
The 43-year-old musician,...
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The people's princess is being honored with a royal affair.
Princes William and Harry are organizing a star-studded concert to be held in London next summer to mark the...
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If George Michael wants to keep singing about his "Freedom,"
he'd better learn to curtail his drug-induced snoozes. Or at least find
less noticeable places to doze off.
...
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Flamboyant New York band the Scissor
Sisters dominated music sales in Britain for a second week as
they stayed at the top of both the singles and album charts.
Their...
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A previously unreleased duet between George Michael and Sir Paul McCartney is to feature on a series of upcoming greatest-hits packages.
Michael's Twenty Five collections...
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A mature and modest George Michael took the stage this weekend in his first solo concert in 15 years, singing his greatest hits to 18,000 fans packed into Barcelona's Palau...
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Elton John has ended his two-year feud with George Michael the
same way he started it--very, very publicly.
The Rocket
Man went on the British talk show Parkinson...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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George Michael is denying that his wedding to longtime boyfriend Kenny Goss has been called off, despite the fact that photos of the former Wham! singer's alleged adulterous...
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Tony Bennett has recruited more than a dozen music heavyweights, including Bono, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand, to sing on his new album, "Tony Bennett: Duets/An...
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It seems George Michael is on a collision course with the law
these days.
Police quizzed the ex-Wham! frontman after his
Range Rover Whammed into a series of cars. All...
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George Michael was woken up, only to go-go directly to jail over
the weekend.
The 42-year-old singer was arrested in
central London Saturday night on suspicion of drug...
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Singer George Michael was arrested in London on drug charges after being found slumped at the wheel of his car, according to a British tabloid newspaper report.
A passer...
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A British music studio said Wednesday it had bought Air Studios, the recording facility founded by Beatles producer George Martin.
Richard Boote, owner of Strongroom...
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British pop star Elton John tied the
knot with long-term partner David Furnish on Wednesday, joining
hundreds of gay couples across England taking advantage of a
new law to...
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Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned Western music from Iran's radio and TV stations, reviving one of the harshest cultural decrees from the early days of 1979...
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George Michael always said he wasn't planning on going solo, but
who knew Wham! lyrics could be so prophetic?
The
Grammy-winning singer and his longtime partner, Kenny...
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Disturbed has given Bon Jovi the fist.
While the
latter scored a career-best sales week, it wasn't enough to keep
Disturbed from landing its second straight number one....
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Three days after the Live 8 concerts were heard around the world,
their impact continues to reverberate.
The musical
extravaganza which took place in nine venues...
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After a galaxy of stars
rocked the world in the largest live concert ever held,
organizers on Sunday looked to a summit of rich nations to see
if people power would change...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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Queen has decided the show must go on.
Heeding
its own advice, the superstar British rock band is planning to tour next
year--the first time the band has gone on the...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Singer George Michael has written to a British celebrity magazine to rebuke Elton John for making unflattering comments about his personal life.
In an open letter to...
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91. Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: "Amazing (Full Intention Club Mix)," Michael Gray and Jon Pearn, remixers (George Michael ); "It's My Life (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin...
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It was No. 1 in 1984, and it's No. 1 again in 2004. The star-studded re-recording of the hit charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" hit the top of the British music...
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To paraphrase Wham!, George Michael wishes one ardent admirer
would just go-go away.
A British woman is reportedly
undergoing psychiatric evaluation at a London...
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British police are searching for a woman suspected of breaking into the home of pop star George Michael . Police said this week they were called to the singer's house in...
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Eminem topped music charts for a
second week, warming up a recent cold spell for record
companies who hope the rapper and big releases from acts like
U2 and Gwen Stefani ...
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Robbie Williams , Michael Jackson , Queen, the Rolling Stones and Cliff Richard have been inducted into Britain's first Music Hall of Fame, chosen by the public as the best...
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Veteran bluesman Bo Diddley has been having a tough time
getting back on his feet after his toe was amputated two months ago.
Diddley, 75, was forced to postpone a...
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Here's an idea: How about rerecording Band Aid's 1984 mega-smash
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" with a new batch of music stars?
It was a great idea--in 1989, that is,...
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Brazilian newcomer Maria Rita, one of Wednesday's leading Latin Grammy nominees, treats her family's rich musical legacy as a personal gold watch — a treasure to be...
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The Sony-BMG merger leaves four music "majors" with about 80 percent of the $32 billion global music market. They are:
_Universal Music Group: Artists include Sting,...
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The European Union has approved the merger of Sony Music and Bertelsmann AG 's BMG unit in a deal that gives the four "majors" control of about 80 percent of the world...
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George Michael has issued a Web whammie to his fans.
The former Wham! frontman has decided that the chatroom on his Website
(GeorgeMichael.com) has turned into a forum...
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Thanks to Avril
Lavigne, it was the fall of the house of Usher on this week's album
chart.
The un-Britney's sophomore album, Under
My Skin, put the stops on Usher's...
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Just because you have the method doesn't mean you can be the man.
Despite a strong showing by rapper-actor Method
Man, the artist on top of Billboard's Top 200 album...
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British charity Oxfam is to enlist music
downloaders -- a group once regarded by record company
executives as "thieves" and "freeloaders" -- to help it fight
poverty and...
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Tennessee-born R&B singer Usher kept his
hold on top of the British singles charts Sunday with "Yeah"
for the second week running while his album "Confessions" also
hit No....
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Pop singer George Michael is considering whether to turn the music of Wham! into a musical. Michael tells a London radio station two or three producers have approached him...
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George Michael is beginning to find
out whether "Patience" is a virtue.
The title of the English singer-songwriter's new album --
released March 15 internationally on...
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A thriller it wasn't.
There were songs, slogans and more than one moonwalking Michael Jackson impersonator, but plans to mount a major show of international support for...
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Across the pop, R&B and rap
genres, among top singles and albums, 50 Cent dominates the
2003 Year in Music charts.
The rapper from Queens, N.Y. has the No. 1 song of the...
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British singer George Michael has signed
a new global recording deal with Sony, the company from which
he battled to free himself in the early 1990s.
"Sony Music UK today...
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A top MTV boss on Wednesday slammed
Pop Idol-type TV talent shows for producing a string of
manufactured stars who did nothing to salvage the beleaguered
music...
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Anti-war activist George Michael says most other pop acts are too lightweight to carry off a peace protest song. Michael is criticizing plans by Lee Ryan of British boy band...
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George Michael may be sued for slander by the police officer who arrested him more than four years ago.
On April 7, 1998, the British pop star was arrested in a public...
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George Michael takes political swipes at British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush in the new animated video for his latest single, "Shoot The...
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Pop star George Michael has explained the reasons behind his purchase of the piano John Lennon used to write "Imagine." In a statement, Michael said, "My true feeling is...
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Pop singer George Michael has been identified as the winning bidder for the piano on which the late John Lennon composed his 1971 hit "Imagine." According to...
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Last month, a lawsuit filed against George Michael by Marcelo Rodriguez -- the Los Angeles police officer who arrested him for lewd behavior -- was dismissed by a Los...
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With George Michael and Queen Latifah as the latest stars added, the list of performers for the concert event Equality Rocks continues to grow. The star-studded concert,...
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George Michael has just signed a North American record deal with Virgin Music Group. Since 1995, he's been with Virgin Music Worldwide in all territories outside of North...
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The upcoming George Michael covers album will be titled Songs From The Last Century. The album includes 11 cover songs, ranging from such diverse artists as Bing Crosby to...
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The Beverly Hills cop who arrested pop star George Michael last year for allegedly committing a lewd act in a public park restroom is now suing the singer for slander to...
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Schizophonic, the solo debt by Geri Halliwell, the artist formerly known as Spice Girl Ginger, will be released June 15 on Capitol Records. Tracks on the album include...
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A new book that examines the sex lives of Kurt Cobain, Madonna, Dave Navarro and Michael Jackson just came out.
Boy, is it ever "out."
Sing Out! Gays And Lesbians In The...
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George Michael, Rufus Wainwright, Ani DiFranco, and Bob Mould are among the big-name nominees for the 1998 GLAMA Awards (the Gay And Lesbian Music Awards), which will be...
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R&B star Bobby Brown (a.k.a. Mr. Whitney Houston) turned himself in to police on Dec. 3, on an arrest warrant issued following a report that he was inebriated when he...
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All Saints have beaten the Spice Girls to motherhood. The group's Melanie Blatt gave birth to a baby girl today. The child, named Lily Ella, was fathered by Stuart Zender,...
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For the first time ever, the top five singles on the British charts are new entries. But while the singles may be new to the chart, the artists are all veterans.
Leading...
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The last time George Michael made headlines they were less-than-flattering: On April 7, the singer was arrested at Will Rogers Park in Beverly Hills, Calif. for engaging in...
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George Michael pleaded no contest yesterday in Beverly Hills, California municipal court to committing a lewd act in a park restroom.
Michael, who did not appear for the...
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George Michael's arraignment on a misdemeanor lewd conduct charge was postponed Tuesday to May 15th. Defense attorney Ira Reiner, who was recently retained by the singer,...
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George Michael has finally admitted what has long been the subject of music industry rumor: that he is indeed gay.
"I want people to know I haven't been exposed as a gay...
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George Michael blew off a planned TV interview with NBC's Maria Shriver on Friday on the advice of his attorney, as the tabloids continued to titter after his arrest for...
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George Michael was arrested by Beverly Hills police Tuesday evening and charged with engaging in a lewd act in a public restroom.
Acting on complaints from area residents...
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