Michael performed at a Freddie Mercury tribute concert, with Lisa Stansfield, while still in the closet. In 1992, Michael had not come out to his family and hadn’t told his closest friends about his boyfriend’s diagnosis because Feleppa didn’t want anyone to know about his terminal illness. “Try to imagine that you fought with your own sexuality to the point that you’ve lost half your twenties,” the former Wham! singer, who publicly came out in 1998, later told The Independent.Īnd then, upon finally finding romantic love, “along came a fatal disease to destroy everything,” author James Gavin writes in his upcoming biography of the singer, “ George Michael: A Life” (Abrams Press), out Tuesday. Michael, then 29, was closeted and his boyfriend, Brazilian dress designer and stylist Anselmo Feleppa, was dying of AIDS. Michael’s 15-minute set ended with a powerful rendition of the Queen classic “Somebody to Love.” He later called it “probably the proudest moment of my career.”īut it was a performance that was cloaked in irony. The concert was organized to pay tribute to the legendary Mercury and to raise money for AIDS awareness.
Bedridden and blind, the Queen singer died the following day at the age of 45.
The previous November, the flamboyant Mercury had announced, after months of speculation, that he had AIDS. On April, 20, 1992, George Michael was part of a star-studded lineup that included Elton John, David Bowie and Metallica at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness at London’s Wembley Stadium. George Michael’s headstone unveiled 5 years after his Christmas day death Last Christmas: How George Michael made it up to Prince William after snub at Princess Di’s holiday partyĬareless Whisper: George Michael was addicted to date rape drug - and other shocking revelations in new book George Michael: Death of Wham! was because I was closeted and miserable
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