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26/12/2016 GMT

George Michael Remembered

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Tributes pour in for the British singer, George Michael, who has died at the age of 53

Tributes pour in for the British singer, George Michael, who has died at the age of 53.

Tributes are pouring in for the British singer, George Michael, who has died of heart failure at the age of fifty-three. Andrew Ridgeley, who was George Michael's partner in the nineteen-eighties pop group Wham!, said he was heartbroken. Michael sold tens of millions of records around the world.   

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(Image: George Michael in 2012. Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

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