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The George Michael News from December 2006December 27, 2006
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According to the Daily Express, George Michael will be spending Christmas with his father.
Elton John says: "I'm so thrilled that George is back out on tour putting on a great show. When I did that interview saying I thought George should get out more, I just meant he should get back on stage doing what he does best."
Wow! How many versions of last Christmas are there? This blog has a list of them as well as an MP3 of each.
Nicola tell us that The Big Issue has an interview with George Michael. The Big Issue gives homeless people the chance to make an income.
Giovanni sends us more photos from the 25 Live Tour.
Here's a good review of a recent George Michael gig in London.
It sounds like there's going to be a special called Careless Whiskers: The Unseen George Michael, which looks at previously unseen home video footage and interviews some 'former' close friends, who have been squeezed out of his inner circle.
From People Magazine:
"A source close to the 43-year-old singer tells PEOPLE that the pop star will embark on his first U.S. tour in 15 years this spring."
(Thank you, thank you, thank you to Donna for sending this information!)
Lorraine sends us photos from the concert in Dublin on December 8, 2006. Links to previous concert photos are now located in a new section in the photos directory.
The Sun provides a link to a mix of "Last Christmas" and "Hear Me Tonight."
"Last Christmas" is being re-released this year but only as a download.
Well, if you must vandalize, do it with a George Michael lyric.
Right Disc Is More than Music to their Ears:
George Michael, TwentyFive (Sony/BMG). Not even George Michael, I'm sure, expected Wham! to translate into the sort of career that gives rise to 25-years-in-the-biz retrospectives, but here we are: three discs — one "for living," one "for loving" and one "for the loyal" — comprising the Many Moods of George Michael. For fans, obviously, but even non-believers should remark in hindsight upon the slack-grooved greatness of Wham!'s "Everything She Wants" and the Queen-goes-acid-house lark "Freedom," not to mention how the material from Michael's solo debut, Faith, stomps his previous output to powder. Without him, Justin Timberlake is nothing.
Barco’s Creative LED Modules Set Stage for George Michael:
Barco has announced that 3000 of its MiStrip LED modules are used for George Michael's 25 Live Tour. The modules, playing video and graphics effects, form a curved display of LED behind and underneath the former Wham singer.
For the current George Michael tour, celebrating his 25 year career, a massive 9 metre wide and 25 metre long screen was designed, incorporating 3000 of Barco's MiStrip LED modules. This giant backdrop flows onto the stage and beyond via both concave and convex curves to create a stunning visual element, strong enough to be both stood and danced on. Barco specialists were involved in the set design from the very beginning and worked closely with XL Video to design the spectacular stage.
Phil Mercer, project manager of XL Video, states: “The project was very ambitious, demanding for extremely high resolution. So we were worried that it would not be achievable as we expected problems with the weight and reliability because of the high number of LEDs needed to reach this resolution. However, this proved to be no issue at all for the MiStrip. It has stood up really well to the demanding tour schedule and fulfilled a very exacting design brief." He continues: “It made us start to think of all the other applications we can use this product for. It is so modular and flexible, and has the tried and trusted Barco processing and signal distribution as the basic building blocks of the system."
The MiStrip is a linear LED screen element, essentially a “strip of pixels”, that can be combined in any shape and quantity to make up any size and form of LED screens. Despite its sleek appearance, it is structurally very strong, which made it ideal for Willie Williams’ design for the George Michael tour. The modularity of the system and special mechanics developed for the show allow the lower rear part of the screen to open up, an unexpected entrance for the artist onto the stage.
George Michael has put his recent concert success down to one
thing - his love of British comedian Catherine Tate.
The singer is a big fan of the funnywoman and her The Catherine Tate show dvds
are an integral part of his backstage regime.
He says, "I watch her show to warm me up. I love it."
Digital Spy has a review of Crazy Frog's version of "Last Christmas"
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