In Focus: George Michael

Already stratospherically famous by the mid-1980s with WHAM!, the group he formed with school friend Andrew Ridgeley, George Michael would go on to become a fully fledged icon in his solo career. He used his star power to poke at conservative sensibilities and wrote refreshingly frank lyrics about sex and relationships that never coddled his young audience. Gifted with a beautiful tenor, but cursed by the prying eyes of the press, especially during his solo career, Michael's work slowed and he shied from the public in later years, but he was constantly buoyed up until his untimely passing by a cult, loving fanbase, and his music - which speaks for itself. This In Focus celebrates the exuberant and joyful music of pop iconoclast George Michael. This show is currently unavailable in the USA. Image Credit: (Photo by FG/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images)