James Gavin

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smoulderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for a time—the secret he fought...