Have. Welcome to how it really happened. Im hill harper. George michael musical singer songwriter charitable superstar but haunted by demons. He had the voice of a maestro, but the darkness of regret which turned him into a tabloid target. All alone on christmas home George Michael went to sleep and never woke up. This is how it really happened. You know that song, Last Christmas. Its one of George Michaels famous songs of all time. He loved christmas so much. It was his favorite day of the year and the saddest part of everything is he died on christmas. George and his boyfriend began spending a lot of time at his country house, which is halfway between london and oxford. Its a gorgeous area, very traditional, and it being christmas time there was this huge parade past his home, and everyone is Carrying Torches so its very spectacular. One moment im looking out the window and its a very sad ghostly image caught his face behind the glass sort of looking at a world but detached from it. Faudi seems to have been the last regular boyfriend in his life. He said he had been there that weekend and gone out on Christmas Eve and the next Day Christmas day, at about noon, little bit after noon he goes in to wake George Michael up and he cant. He makes a hurried phone call to the Emergency Services in oxford dshire. Is the patient breathe something. I think hes dead. My reaction was, what the happened to George Michael . Everyone around the world knew who he was. He was sexy. He had a great voice. He had a swagger about him. I defy you to watch the video, faith. He was serving choreography, everything. He was suddenly a sex symbol. Everybody remembers those ripped jeans and the aviators. I was so impressed of his work. I was in awe of his talent. George michael was born in east benchley, london. His father was a restauranter. She thought he had talent. She was extremely sensitive and proud that her son and liking toward art and music. When george was 12 they moved today sbubs where he met andrew ridgely. I thought he was pretty loud. You didnt mind him in other words. I thought theres a boy i want to sit next no. Michael knew he always wanted to write music and be famous. The one that made have been laugh good looking and handsome. By the time they were 16 they started mapping out their future as pop stars. And drew ridgely really was the influence to George Michael to convince him he had what it took to become a singing superstar. One day youre a kid going to school and then boom, wham. I immediate wham first after i saw them on the top of the pops. First thing they did was for george to look at us and say can you make tuesday biggest stars in the world . Youve got one year. Their first hit was young guns. It exploded. Nobody had ever seen a group like wham arrive on the scene, exude so much sexuality. They were so cute young charming and optimistic and the songs were poppi and they became overnight sensations. Ladies and gentlemen this is wham on American Bandstand you take one look at him and you say, that guy is a star. I saw wham come on and do their show, and i realized immediately that georges voice and his skills on stage were far beyond his years. I was blown away. The records were just flying off the shelves. Women were going crazy. Young girls wanted to marry the members of wham. They were obsessed with andrew and george. Who is hotter andrew or george . These women throwing themselves on him and he didnt know quite how to react to that. I was seriously underdeveloped emotionally. Never had any crushes on anyone at school. There was always ambiguity to his sexuality. Everybody liked it. The girls liked it. The biggest thing was you feel before you go go because im not planning on going solo. It was their second album, wham made it big in 1984 with the hit everything she wants, freedom careless whisper. George michael just had a kind of sophistication as a vocalist even when he was doing the most sugary kind of pop he managed to bring that across in a way that was convincing and fun. It shows the real brilliance of George Michael, his sensitivity and his profoundness in cultivating a song. He was a genius. A lot of people say what did andrew do in the group . It was all george. Thats rubbish. The image of wham is really andrew. George was the copycat of that. The image of a group is in the end more important than the music. Theres no question George Michael was the major talent in whittingham but that doesnt mean that andrew wasnt important. His importance was significant in emotional terms. He needed andrew there. Right from the beginning with wham, george had in mind that wham would be like a 34 year period. You werent just one you. There are many versions of you. Theres the one who is inspired by those who never give up. So we are going to brave. The one is a kid at heart. 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Reporter you can see behind me, people are still coming. Weve seen them this morning laying flowers, messages, candles, some people just weeping openly. Their grief, well, its pretty extraordinary. Theyre all here because George Michael you can see people still coming laying candles some people weeping openly because George Michael men so very much to them. They want to know why he died at such a young age. You constantly have this fear of dining young. He said i know im going. I said, why do you say that . He said i dont know. I just know it. When wham were invited to play in china in 1985 it was a huge deal. Nobody had even talked of playing china. Being the biggest stars in the world means being the biggest star in america today. My partner said, maybe we can make you the First Western pop group have to play in Communist China and george said yes, i like that. Do that. When the concert took place in beijing there were over 118 Television Crews around the world. I think its the biggest accomplishment of the legacy of twham was to go to china and do the freedom video and freedom song. No other western banded performed in china they did exactly what we wanted, because in the course of two weeks, wham were broken tote in america. It was unparallel. It set them so further apart than anybody else and they were true innovators. George had in mind they would be a 34 year period. George was mature enough to not need twham but emotionally i dont think he was necessarily in that place. George said i know youre not going to like this but there is no more twham and i took a pause and i said, well of course theres a wham. I think some of the things he needed from andrew from a partnership maybe werent so apparent to him until later. I think he felt exposed and isolated the bigger he got in a sense the shakier the ground underneath him felt. He always felt like a bit of a fraud. I think more bubbling inside himself was the feeling of being this slightly fake character. He was projecting this copycat image of andrew. No regrets about spinning. Huge thank you to everyone. Not only for today. The last four years. I dont think that either of them wanted to continue in the wham vein. They thought they exhausted it completely and there wasnt much more to say. Are you jealous of his solo success . Dont mention it. We did quite pull a record together. George went solo and went from being one of the biggest stars on the planet to being the biggest star on the planet. George michaels first album which came out in 1987. It was a breakout a dramatic breakthrough. Then he does something very bold and very brave. In faith he releases, i want your sex. That was the moment where he was like, i got the worlds attention. I originally was not for that being a single but george said, trust me. I know what im doing. He wanted to let everybody know that i want your sex wasnt about not being responsible for sex. But about being with one person. That single was banned in the u. K. And u. S. For a while. They change it to i want your love when they were playing it on the radio. He made 50 million his first solo tour of america. He was there with the top two or three artists in the world. Every city we went to sold out. Every show the fans were left breathless with the experience. He was electrifying. We had five number one hit singles on that record, i want your sex, fake, father figure, monkey, kissing a fool, one more try. He was very competitive and more so every time the charts would come out did, we go to number 1, did we not knock Michael Jackson and prince down . Yes. He was all about winning. George didnt want to hang backstage and socialize. He just wanted to go back to the room and be alone. I think that time alone was just something that would wear on him day after day. 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George michael skyrocketed and you know in commercial terms einar advertise particular terms he did very well but horriblely i think he struggled with it all. The faith tour was one of the most amazing Concert Tours id ever witnessed in my life and the adulation he would get and he would go back to his hotel room, close the door and be alone. George didnt want to hang backstage and socialize. I think that time alone was just something that would wear on him day after day, you know All Around The World from australia to europe to the u. S. To canada. Going back to your hotel room alone not being who you really are. Yeah, there was something missing from his life. I knew he was, you know, he was feeling lonely. When i was young because i suppose i was so confused, about my sexuality and other things i suppose i was prone to loneliness and the depression around it because it is lonely if youre surrounded by people but youre not really surrounded by anyone. George always struggled with his sexuality. At young age he thought he might be bisexual. I remember being poolside with rob two thirds through the tour and rob suddenly asked me, do you think that george is gay . I said well, yes, i believe he is gay. I found out as the tour rolled along that george was very unhappy and it became obvious because he was so in the closet. As a gay man holding on to that secret and everything fame can i only imagine the pressure with that. He was keeping this deep dark secret but then, he falls in love. George michael met filipe in 1991 at the rocking rio. Anselmo was this spirit we wished we always carried around with us. George was happy with anselmo. He was the part that george was missing in his life. The day i knew that i knew i was gay was the day i knew i was in love with a man. Ive never seen him happier in my life. People werent ready for an artist of George Michaels sta stature. It would have been Career Suicide for him to come out and say im gay. You go why wouldnt he come out . You didnt do that. It didnt happen. There were few people who were out and proud in the 80s. Then his lover becomes ill six months into the relationship. Anselmo found out he had hiv and george was devastated. Imagine the horror of waiting all your life for love for authentic love and then within months your lover says i have a deadly disease. George stuck by him and he helped him. He was by his side 24 7. Anselmo dies in 1993. Shattering George Michael. He goes into a deep depression and he has depression in his family history. So, there is a real struggle, and he begins to medicate with prozac and pot and he describes this as a very dark time. People close to him admit that that perhaps was the most devastating experience of George Michaels life was losing his lover. By his own account, smoking 25 splits of cannabis a day, which is a massive amount and obviously that last to take a toll. Thats addicted behavior. The thing about addiction is its progressive. He grieved for years before he came back and then came out with jesus as a child which was dedicated to anselmo. You smiled at me like jesus to a child george was grieving and his mother got sick and this was another devastating blow. He was so close to leslie and she was the person who in the family encouraged him to become a singer. Now All Of A Sudden he was embroiled in helping his mother to fight her cancer. Not only did she have cancer, she died three months later. He really was an emotional wreck and was in a manic state. I lost my mother and as has been fairly well documented i lost my percent partner. I was afraid and really scarred by the things that happened to me. I was scared that he it was going to i was scared. He needed to be watched. 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