Tonight the Music Seems So Loud: The Meaning of George Michael
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Book Overview The story of the life and music of a pop superstar and a kaleidoscopic window into fame, homophobia, the 80s and 90s, creative genius, an...
The story of the life and music of a pop superstar and a kaleidoscopic window into fame, homophobia, the 80s and 90s, creative genius, and addiction, revealing why the love for George Michael has only grown in the years since his tragic death on Christmas Day 2016.
There is no shortage of earnest books about the cultural significance of musicians like David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon. But George Michael does not attract such attention. The music he produced is not generally deemed worthy of serious analysis, the man considered more noteworthy as a celebrity than a cultural figure. Yet such dismissals overlook how Michael's life and work broke extraordinary boundaries and, in so doing, helped define an era.
A second generation immigrant and child of a Greek-Cypriot restaurateur, Michael could barely read music, and was not trained on any instrument, yet would compose hit songs in a single afternoon and play nearly every instrument on recordings that have reached totemic status. He had the rare ability to master both rock and R&B; and was, following Freddie Mercury's death, seriously considered as a replacement frontman for Queen.
For many he became a symbol of eighties excess, played benefit gigs for miners and nurses, and was a prolific secret philanthropist. He had massive pop hits sometimes without any promotion at all, even after launching one of the most aggressive court cases against a record company in pop history. He was a teen crush for millions of girls, and stayed in the closet due to intense homophobia from his father and the media, but then became an impassioned campaigner for gay rights. A large part of his audience was suburban, middle-aged, female, and white, yet some of his most famous tunes were essentially R&B pop songs about casual sex in the city. He was wildly popular, at times ridiculed in the press, and f
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: PEGASUS BOOKS | ISBN: 9798897101
FormatHardcover
ISBN9798897101
EAN9798897101177
PublisherPEGASUS BOOKS
Publication Date2026-06-02
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.19 Pounds
Length9.07 Inches
Width5.92 Inches
Height1.27 Inches
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