he was tortured same way prince was with warner brothers. patti ann: interesting. now in the wake of his death, first of all, surprising 53 years old, he had a serious battle with pneumonia a few years ago and he recovered. >> yeah. patti ann: to die of heart failure at 53, a shock, tributes pouring in. >> you know, goes to show you that perhaps the stress and longing broke his heart. we don't really know. that was from his manager, michael lipman, who said he suffered a heart ailment and died peacefully if his sleep, what you would hope but he was meant to release more music. it is interesting, because five days ago i sent an email to one of my producers saying let's get george michael on the she. i met him several times when he was on mtv i wanted to sit down and talk with him because i had recently been revisiting his music. it is so sad to see someone taken especially he sank beautifully in 1992 at that freddie mercury tribute concert.