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, stormy boxing day for some in scotland, 90mph gusts in orkney and shetland, frequent wintry showers, but not the same for all. A cracking day for others to walk off that excess christmas pudding. All the details in 15 minutes. 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 and went on to have a successful solo career. He sold 100 million albums worldwide and had 11 uk number ones. Nick quraishi looks back at his life. You put the boom boom into my heart. Suntans, bleached hair and upbeat songs propelled wham to number one around the world. They even conquered china. Last christmas i gave you my heart but
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, stormy boxing day for some in scotland, 90mph gusts in orkney and shetland, frequent wintry showers, but not the same for all. A cracking day for others to walk off that excess christmas pudding. All the details in 15 minutes. 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 and went on to have a successful solo career. He sold 100 million albums worldwide and had 11 uk number ones. Nick quraishi looks back at his life. You put the boom boom into my heart. Suntans, bleached hair and upbeat songs propelled wham to number one around the world. They even conquered china. Last christmas i gave you my heart but
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, stormy boxing day for some in scotland, 90mph gusts in orkney and shetland, frequent wintry showers, but not the same for all. A cracking day for others to walk off that excess christmas pudding. All the details in 15 minutes. 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 and went on to have a successful solo career. He sold 100 million albums worldwide and had 11 uk number ones. Nick quraishi looks back at his life. You put the boom boom into my heart. Suntans, bleached hair and upbeat songs propelled wham to number one around the world. They even conquered china. Last christmas i gave you my heart but
On to have an incredibly successful career both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians, including Aretha Franklin and sir elton john. He sold 100 million albums and had 11 uk number ones. We were having breakfast in la, anti tummy had taken the decision he was going to leave his present manager and go solo. I was astonished, wham with the biggest p0p group astonished, wham with the biggest pop group in the world and could have continued for many years. He was adamant and its plain to me it was adamant and its plain to me it was about what he wanted to do musically. He was feeling trapped by the type of music that wham fans expected. Earlier, i spoke to the music and Film Producer martin lewis who was with george when he was making the decision to go solo. Russia is holding a day of National Mourning for the 92 People Killed when a Military Plane crashed in the black sea. Authorities in russia say theyve located the site where the plane came down yesterday, soon afte