George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on June 25, 1963) is an English Greek-Cypriot pop singer/songwriter. Michael began his career by forming a band called The Executive together with his best friend Andrew Ridgeley, a fellow pupil at Bushey Meads School, though it did not survive for long. It wasn't until he formed the duo Wham! together again with Ridgeley in 1981 that the success came for the band. Their first album, Fantastic!, was an instant success, and within a year they had released their classic debut single, Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do), while their second single, Young Guns (Go For It), became the first in a string of Top 10 hits in the UK singles chart. They were rapidly followed by titles such as Bad Boys, Club Tropicana, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Freedom, Last Christmas/Everything She Wants, I'm Your Man and a second album, Make It Big. George also sang on the original Band Aid recording of Do They Know It's Christmas and donated the profits from Last Christmas/Everything She Wants to the charity. With the success of his solo releases Careless Whisper (1984) and A Different Corner (1986) stories of an impending Wham! split intensified, and Wham! duly separated in the summer of 1986 after a farewell single, The Edge Of Heaven and album, plus a sell-out concert at Wembley Stadium. Some of his biggest hit singles as a solo artist include the single "Faith" (taken from his debut album Faith that not only became number one on both sides of the Atlantic but also resulted in stunning four number one singles in America) and many more. "Careless Whisper" (written when he was seventeen) became one of the most played songs of the decade and voted Londoner's Favourite record of all time in January 1995 in a competition run jointly by the capital's leading evening newspaper and radio station. He was then also voted Best Male Singer by the same radio statio
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3 | A Different Corner | Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael |
4 | Jesus To A Child | Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael |
5 | Waiting (Reprise) | Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 |
6 | One More Try | Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael |
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8 | Flawless (Go to the City) | Patience |
9 | Father Figure | Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael |
10 | Praying For Time | Opposites Attract |
11 | The Strangest Thing | Older |
12 | Everything She Wants (MTV Unplugged) | MTV Unplugged (George Michael) |
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14 | Miss Sarajevo | Songs From The Last Century |
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16 | Somebody To Love (Live) | Five Live |
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18 | Don't Let The Sun Go Down On me | Ladies & Gentlemen CD I |
19 | Faith | Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael |
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