George Michael

GEORGE MICHAEL Bought JOHN LENNON’s ‘Imagine’ Piano 25 Years Ago Today

Posted on by JL

22 October 2025

25 years ago today John Lennon‘s memorable white Steinway
piano that he played in the classic Imagine video clip in 1971
was auctioned.

The late great George Michael won the auction.

He paid £1.45m (1.940.591 US dollars). Michael said: “I know that when my
fingers touch the keys of that Steinway, I will feel truly blessed. And parting
with my money has never been much of a problem, just ask my accountant.”

Other bidders included Robbie Williams and the Oasis brothers.

††† (aka CROSSES) Try To Cover GEORGE MICHAEL

Posted on by JL

24 December 2022


(Credit: Press †††)


††† aka CROSSES is Deftones singer Chino Moreno and producer,
multi-instrumentalist SHAUN LOPEZ. They work(ed) for a long time
together – on and off – on the Crosses project.

Last week they dropped a brand new 6-track EP titled PERMANENT.RADIANT.
And now they join the never-ending queue of artists singing a lullaby around
the Xmas tree. They picked the 1987 George Michael ballad torch One More Try
to cover for the festive Holidays.

Check it out

Original

†††: Facebook

GEORGE MICHAEL Topped UK Charts 35 Years Ago With ‘A DIFFERENT CORNER’

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Top singles from the past…

19 April 2021

Artist: GEORGE MICHAEL
Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on 25 June 1963
and passed away on 25 December 2016, only 53

Single: A DIFFERENT CORNER

Michael about the song: “I felt like shit. I went in and recorded exactly
the way I felt, and that’s the way it sounds. It was partly Wham! and partly
the end of a relationship. It was the farthest I’d ever fallen, and in a very
short period of time. I had to get rid of it somehow, I had to write about it.
That’s a really perverse side that I’m sure a lot of writers have -‘I feel like shit,
but maybe I’ll get a good song out of it.’”

Score: No 1 in the UK, in Canada, Portugal, Norway and… Zimbabwe (fact!)

Turn Up the Volume: Cheesy? Yes, but one of the best cheesiest songs
I ever heard. I’m sure The Bee Gees loved this magnificent ballad.

R.I.P. Michael…

GEORGE MICHAEL: Facebook