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George Michael
A Life
Taschenbuch von James Gavin
Sprache: Englisch

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In George Michael: A Life,“Gavin’s engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man” (New York Times Book Review).

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for a time—the secret he fought against revealing: Michael was gay. Soon his obsession with fame would start to backfire. As one of the industry’s most privileged yet tortured men began to self-destruct, the press showed little sympathy. George Michael: A Life explores the compelling story of a superstar whose struggles, as well as his songs, continue to touch fans all over the world.

Acclaimed music biographer James Gavin traces Michael’s metamorphosis from the shy and awkward Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou into the swaggering, dominant half of the leading British pop duo of the 1980s Wham! He then details Michael’s sensational solo career and its subsequent unraveling. With deep analysis of the creative process behind Michael’s albums, tours, and music videos, as well as interviews with hundreds of his friends and colleagues, George Michael: A Life is a probing, definitive portrait of a pop legend.
In George Michael: A Life,“Gavin’s engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man” (New York Times Book Review).

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for a time—the secret he fought against revealing: Michael was gay. Soon his obsession with fame would start to backfire. As one of the industry’s most privileged yet tortured men began to self-destruct, the press showed little sympathy. George Michael: A Life explores the compelling story of a superstar whose struggles, as well as his songs, continue to touch fans all over the world.

Acclaimed music biographer James Gavin traces Michael’s metamorphosis from the shy and awkward Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou into the swaggering, dominant half of the leading British pop duo of the 1980s Wham! He then details Michael’s sensational solo career and its subsequent unraveling. With deep analysis of the creative process behind Michael’s albums, tours, and music videos, as well as interviews with hundreds of his friends and colleagues, George Michael: A Life is a probing, definitive portrait of a pop legend.
Über den Autor
James Gavin is a writer and music biographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Time Out New York, and Vanity Fair. He is the author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee, and Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. He lives in New York City.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Biographien & Monographien
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781419768354
ISBN-10: 1419768352
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gavin, James
Hersteller: Abrams & Chronicle Books
Abrams Books
Maße: 208 x 142 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: James Gavin
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,535 kg
Artikel-ID: 126587491
Über den Autor
James Gavin is a writer and music biographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Time Out New York, and Vanity Fair. He is the author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee, and Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. He lives in New York City.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Biographien & Monographien
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781419768354
ISBN-10: 1419768352
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gavin, James
Hersteller: Abrams & Chronicle Books
Abrams Books
Maße: 208 x 142 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: James Gavin
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,535 kg
Artikel-ID: 126587491
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