MSN Music — His Christmas song remains a classic, but heartbreakingly the joyous time of year was always one filled with pain for George Michael. The late singer, who died on Christmas 2016 at age 53, recalls the period was when he lost two of the people he love... more info

The Daily Mail — George Michael revealed the trauma of losing his first love to AIDs sent him into a depression in a new documentary which the late singer edited and directed about his life. more info

Stereogum — Sam Smith closed out BBC Radio 1's month-long Live Lounge marathon today. "For this final cover, I wanted to pick my favorite artist of all time," he said after covering Alicia Keys' "Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart." "And that is the incredible Geo... more info

Sweeping The Nation — The big music story of 1984, and really the one that would reverberate around pop for a while to come, didn't start until October 23rd, and even then we didn't know about the effect Michael Buerk's words would have until 31 days later whe... more info

Stereogum — Next month, Showtime will air a documentary about George Michael called George Michael: Freedom. It was in production before the musician died last year and features Michael himself narrating the rise of his career. According to Pitchfork, a long lis... more info

Sweeping The Nation — In retrospect, something appears to be coming together around 1998. Three of the year's biggest music stories - George Michael's arrest, Elton John's knighthood, Geri leaving the Spice Girls - feel like the first stage of coalescing into ... more info

Stereogum — We've unfortunately lost a lot of great musicians over the last few years, and movie star and Thirty Seconds To Mars leader Jared Leto decided to pay tribute to five of them by mashing their songs together in a medley for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. A... more info

CNN Showbiz — A posthumous single from singer George Michael is receiving mixed reaction from fans. more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — 8 months after star's death more info

Stereogum — Before he passed away at the end of last year, George Michael was thinking about his legacy and revisiting his old songs. In 1990, Michael had recorded a track called "Fantasy," originally intended to be one of the singles from his Listen Without Pre... more info