Troubled personal life of pop superstar George Michael

Michael - born Georgios Panayiotou in north London - found fame as a teenager in the early 1980s after forming Wham! with school friend Andrew Ridgeley. Michael went on to enjoy a massively successful solo career and his album Faith was a huge international success following its release in 1987. Then there was his sexuality. Michael had always refused to be drawn on speculation that he was gay and so suffered privately when his partner Anselmo Feleppa died of AIDS.