before 2pm on christmas day. they ve confirmed he was found dead at the scene. it s being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. george michael shot to fame in the 1980s with the group wham, and then went on to have a hugely successful solo career. andy moore looks back at his life. # well, i hadn t seen your face around town a while, so i greeted you, with a knowing smile. he burst onto the scene in the early 1980s when he formed wham with andrew ridgeley. the duo had number one singles around the world. they even conquered china, becoming the first western pop band to perform there. george michael loved fame but never became used to it. to be obviously a part of people s lives as an artist, that s what i dreamed of and that s what i m still grateful for. but my god, i wish i could cope with the other stuff the way other people do. i wish i d been born with that particular suit of armour, you know, because i wasn t. # you know not everybody has got a body like you. bu
george michael shot to fame in the 1980s with the group wham, and went on to have a hugely successful solo career. andy moore looks back at his life. # well, i hadn t seen your face around town a while so i greeted you, with a knowing smile. he burst onto the scene in the early 1980s when he formed wham with andrew ridgeley. the duo had number one singles around the world. they even conquered china, becoming the first western pop band to perform there. george michael loved fame but never became used to it. to be obviously a part of people s lives as an artist, that s what i dreamed of and that s what i m still grateful for. but my god, i wish i could cope with the other stuff the way other people do. i wish i d been born with that particular suit of armour, you know, because i wasn t. # you know not everybody has got a body like you. but i gotta think twice before i give my heart away. as his career waned, he hit the headlines for other reasons. he was stopped for a series of
he was 53. police say they were called to his home in oxfordshire shortly before 2pm on christmas day. they ve confirmed he was found dead at the scene. it s being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. george michael shot to fame in the 1980s with the group wham, and went on to have a hugely successful solo career. andy moore looks back at his life. # well, i hadn t seen your face around town a while so i greeted you, with a knowing smile. he burst onto the scene in the early 1980s when he formed wham with andrew ridgeley. the duo had number one singles around the world. they even conquered china, becoming the first western pop band to perform there. george michael loved fame but never became used to it. to be obviously a part of people s lives as an artist, that s what i dreamed of and that s what i m still grateful for. but my god, i wish i could cope with the other stuff the way other people do. i wish i d been born with that particular suit of armour, you know, becau
downstairs there was one metre high. it was about a quarter of the staircase. boxing day sales have already started online we ll look at how changes in buying habits have affected the traditional post christmas bargain hunt. in sport, sam allardyce takes charge of a football match for the first time since he was sacked as england manager. his new side crystal palace, will face watford in the premier league. and matt has the weather. good morning. a wild and wintry day in store. frequent snow show was in scotla nd in store. frequent snow show was in scotland and the storm konta could bring 19 mile costs of wind. for much of england and while the sun is the snow was gone and the sun is out. good morning. first, our main story. one of the biggest pop stars of the 80s and 90s, george michael, has died. he was 53, and is believed to have suffered from heart failure. he rose to fame as one half of the group, wham! but went on to have a successful solo career. he sold 100 milli
immigrants, so the mentality of the two things. and my mother was also very british in that she had very. i get my attitude to money from her, which is that it was something to be afraid of and that of a long time for me to get over. yet, my father s attitude to money was to grab it and move up. was it to be rich and famous, your ambition? i realised about six months ago that somebody asked me a question and i realised that at no point during my early life when i was. in all my ambitions and when i started to realise them, at no point did i ever ordered it ever occurred to me that one of the by products of this would bei one of the by products of this would be i could buy whatever i wanted live in a big house and have flashy car. they are all very pleasant things, but it hadn t occurred to me. idid things, but it hadn t occurred to me. i did not want to be rich, i wa nted me. i did not want to be rich, i wanted to be filled fully famous. did you think it will make you more at