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Page 1 Immigration Attorney Steven Landaal • Green Cards through Marriage and Family • Employment Visas • Monthly Payments Available Tel: (310) 395-2828 George Michael: tributes flow (page 2-3) See our ad on Page 3 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, December 31, 2016 • Number 1659 Always Free HAPPY NEW YEAR! Inside: News from Britain 2-6; Meet a Member 7, Crossword 7, Stargazing 9, Book Review 9, Brits in LA 10, Sean Borg 11, Legal Notices 12-17, Sport 18-20 Page 2 The british Weekly, Sat. December 31, 2016 News From Britain Sudden death of George Michael shocks nation as the year’s heavy toll continues The grim toll of artists local school. The two Michael released I Knew taken in the year 2016 discovered they had a You Were Waiting (For continued unabated on shared interest in music Me) a duet with one of Christmas Day with and, together with a his musical icons, Aretha the death of singer, group of friends, formed Franklin. songwriter and music a ska band which had a He was also beginning producer George short lived existence. to experience doubts Michael. In 1981 Michael and about his sexuality. In During his heyday in Ridgeley formed Wham! an interview with The the 1980s and 1990s, first Their first release, Wham Independent he blamed as one half of Wham! and Rap! failed to trouble his depression after the then as an increasingly- the charts but the follow Wham! breakup on the mature and influential up, Young Guns (Go dawning realisation that solo performer, Michael For It) established the he was not bisexual but sold countless millions group after they were gay. of records and enjoyed asked at the last minute, global fame and fortune to perform it on Top of Legal battle But there were times the Pops complete with Michael spent most HUMBLE BEGINNINGS: George Michael (right) with when his battle with dancers. The record of 1987 writing and Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley in 1984 drugs and encounters quickly rose to No 3 in recording his first solo with the police made the UK charts. album, Faith, which was lurid headlines that The duo initially released in the autumn of threatened to eclipse his adopted a leather-clad that year. It went to the musical talents. rebellious image with top of both the UK and George Michael was songs such as Bad Boys, US charts going on to born Georgios Kyriacos but moved to a more sell more than 25 million Panayiotou in North pop-oriented approach copies and winning a London on 25 June 1963. with the world-wide Grammy in 1989. His father was a Greek hit, Wake Me Up Before The first single from Cypriot restaurateur who You Go-Go, while the the album, I Want had come to the UK in the band members swapped Your Sex, caused some 1950s, while his mother their leathers for more controversy, particularly was an English dancer. fashionable attire. on US radio stations. It was not altogether With Michael very Many refused to play it a happy childhood. much the front man, it at all while others played Michael later recalled was almost inevitable a version substituting the that his parents worked that he would eventually word love for sex. In any constantly to improve strike out on his own. event the single reached their financial status The 1984 single, Careless the top three on both TROUBLED SOUL: George Michael’s later solo work was marked by leaving little room for Whisper, while co- sides of the Atlantic. themes of introspection, reflecting his long battle with depression affectionate moments. “I written by Ridgeley, A 1988 world tour was never praised, never was to all intents and cemented Michael’s he was now beginning to much more introspective it actually outsold Faith. held. So it wasn’t exactly purposes a George status as a pop superstar experience on a regular work than Faith, the While playing a concert the Little House on the Michael solo effort. although the constant basis. album was aimed at a in Rio on his Cover to Prairie.” Indeed it was credited to touring and the Indeed he refused more adult audience. Cover tour in 1991 he met He moved with his Wham! featuring George adulation of thousands of to promote his second It failed to achieve the Anselmo Feleppa, the family to Hertfordshire Michael in the US. screaming teenage girls album, Listen Without success of his previous man who would become while in his teens and Wham! finally split up left him feeling exhausted Prejudice Vol. 1 and no work in the US although his partner, although met Andrew Ridgeley, in 1986 and in the spring and only exacerbated the videos were made to back there were contrasting Michael still did not a fellow pupil at a of the following year periods of depression that up the single releases. A fortunes in the UK where Cont. on page 3, col. 1 Hare and The Hounds Now featuring delicious, traditional handmade pies and pasties from Deli-SA. 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George Michael’s 2 were scrapped amidst It was seen as family has been a legal dispute with his something of a “touched beyond record company, Sony. comeback, achieving words” by an In what proved to be a instant success in the UK “outpouring of love” long and costly battle and even reaching No. 12 for the late star, his Michael finally severed in the US, a market that publicist has said. his relationship with the seemed to have rejected Fans have been global entertainment him. gathering outside the company. Following the release of singer’s London and In 1996, Michael Patience, he told the BBC Oxfordshire homes released the single, Jesus that he would no longer following his death on to a Child, a tribute to make albums for sale to Christmas Day. his dead lover, Feleppa. the public, preferring to Amid the tributes, It went straight to No produce free downloads tales of his philanthropy 1 in the UK. The single of his music and ask fans have emerged - featured on the Older to contribute money to including how he album, which had been charity. funded a couple’s IVF George and Elton donated proceeds from their 1991 single to charity three years in the making His private life treatment. when it was released in continued to dominate The 53-year-old’s 1996. the headlines. In publicist thanked “those Deal in 2008. 1991 live duet with Sir it was an intensely February 2006 he was who, rightly, have She told the Telegraph: Elton John, were donated personal gift,” Dame Coming out arrested and charged chosen to celebrate his “For many years I to HIV and children’s Esther told BBC News. A dark and sometimes with possession of class life and legacy.” wondered who would charities, including the “It meant we could melancholy work, Older C drugs and in July Michael secretly paid have been so generous Terence Higgins Trust. answer more children.” contained a number of that year the News £15,000 for a stranger’s and now I know. What It tweeted: “Thank She said Michael, of references to his of the World printed IVF treatment, former more can I say other than you to George Michael who donated about sexuality and his change allegations that he had Deal or No Deal ‘Thank you George’.” for all he did for the £2m to Childline over of image saw the long been engaging in sexual producer Richard At the time, Mr Davies LGBT community and to the years, “completely hair and beard replaced activity on London’s Osman revealed. had told the Manchester educate about HIV. RIP understood” the by a cropped haircut and Hampstead Heath. Osman tweeted: “A Evening News: “Thank George.” importance of helping leather clothes. Michael threatened to woman on ‘Deal Or No you is not enough. It children. The album was a big sue photographers for Deal’ told us she needed restores your faith in Children’s charities Children’s charities success in the UK and harassment but admitted £15k for IVF treatment. humankind. Wham! royalties from were also at the fore Europe but achieved that he often went out at “George Michael “All the bad news Last Christmas went to when he donated each disappointing sales in night seeking what he secretly phoned the next you read about and Ethiopian famine relief year to Capital Radio’s the US, where audiences called “anonymous and day and gave her the then something like this efforts, while the founder appeal. still seemed to hanker no-strings sex.” £15k.” happens.” of the children’s helpline Former presenter after Michael the pop In August 2010 he Michael’s donations charity Childline, Dame Mick Brown tweeted: superstar rather than was sentenced to eight ‘so generous’ ranged in scope from Esther Rantzen, said “Every Easter at Capital the more serious artist weeks’ imprisonment There was “no more major charities and Michael had donated when I was on air that he had aspired to after pleading guilty fitting tribute than the appeals to individual royalties from the song with Chris Tarrant for become.