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George Michael: 5 sad songs about death
George Michael left us, and death was also omnipresent in his music – at the latest with his album “Older” (1996), which he wrote for his friend Anselmo, who died of AIDS.
In his songs, George Michael devoted himself to suicide in his family (“My Mother Had a Brother”), the death of children (“You have bebe loved”), but also the immortality of pop stars – and how it could be that the big ones die when there is a god (“John and Elvis Are Dead”).
George Michael: 5 sad songs about death
John and Elvis Are Dead
An ode to the role models – Marvin, Lennon, Elvis – and the denial of one’s own mortality. And if it is only a question of hauling the psychiatrist (from: Patience, 2004)
George Michael: 5 sad songs about death
My mother Had a Brother
“My mother had a brother / they say that i was born on the day that he died” – the self -murder of the uncle on her own birthday shaped George Michael’s own relationship with death. And the right to life without a burden. (From: Patience, 2004)
George Michael: 5 sad songs about death
Jesus to a child
With Nonstop-Kän and Latin Jazz as an arrangement of the choice, he succeeds in a masterly mourning for the death of the very dearest person, and how you can stand it on the dead bed (from: Older, 1996)
You have been loved
There may be nothing worse than having to bury your child, and George Michael has written the most moving and peaceful song (from: Older, 1996)
Praying for time
The best anti -war songs do not appear after the war, but anticipate the bad event. Just like this peace anthem, which appeared shortly before the first US Golf War (from: lists Without Prejudice, Vol. I, 1990)