Absolute Radio - Song of the Decade

George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on June 25, 1963) is an English Greek-Cypriot pop singer/songwriter. Michael began his career by forming a band called The Executive together with his best friend Andrew Ridgeley, a fellow pupil at Bushey Meads School, though it did not survive for long. It wasn't until he formed the duo Wham! together again with Ridgeley in 1981 that the success came for the band. Their first album, Fantastic!, was an instant success, and within a year they Read more...

George Michael

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AlanPartridge

@ 5:48pm on 17 November 2009

This song about salvation from bereavement is crafted like an immaculately tailored silk suit: Classy, smooth, stylish and utterly fragile to being torn apart.