1960-1990

Born in East Finchley, Middlesex, Michael rose to fame after forming the pop duo Wham, with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. He took part in Band Aid's UK number-one single "Do They Know It's Christmas" in 1984 & performed at the following year's Live Aid concert. His debut studio album, Faith (1987), won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and became one of the best-selling albums of all time, having sold over 25 million copies worldwide. Michael came out as gay in 1998, & was an active LGBT campaigner & HIV/AIDS charity fundraiser. His personal life, drug use, & legal troubles with the following link's to Mobster's society. In 2011 Michael fell into a coma with pneumonia, but recovered from that. He performed his final concert at London's Earls Court in 2012. Michael died of heart disease on Christmas Day in 2016, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. His father, Kyriacos "Jack" Panayiotou, was a Greek Cypriot restaurateur who emigrated from Patriki, Cyprus, to England in the 1950s.