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• Formed first band, the Executive, with secondary schoolmate Andrew Ridgeley. The duo later formed Wham! in 1981 and disbanded in 1986.
• Notable performances include Live Aid (1985), the Nelson Mandella concert (1988) and the Freddie Mercury tribute (1992).
• Collaboration with Aretha Franklin on 1987's "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" marked the songstress' first duet with a white male vocalist.
• Released Bare, an autobiography he cowrote with Tony Parsons, in 1990.
• Claimed to be haunted by the deaths of his lover, Anselmo Feleppa, in 1993 and his mother in 1997.
• Appeared as a vision in the 2008 pilot episode of the ABC series Eli Stone, and made subsequent appearances throughout the first season.
• Was one of the British music legends who performed at the 2012 Olympic closing ceremony in London.