{"id":83638,"date":"2016-12-26T04:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/iconic-british-singer-george-michael-dies\/"},"modified":"2016-12-26T04:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T04:32:34","slug":"iconic-british-singer-george-michael-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/iconic-british-singer-george-michael-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic British singer George Michael dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"361\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/12 December\/26 Dec\/jorg machia (1).jpg\" width=\"636\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LONDON (SW): Pop superstar George Michael&#39;s death at the age of 53 from suspected heart failure is being treated by police as &quot;unexplained but not suspicious&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period,&quot; Michael&#39;s family said in a statement released by Thames Valley Police.<\/p>\n<p>Big names from the world of entertainment have paid tribute to him after hearing about his death, which comes in a year that has seen the music industry lose some of its biggest stars including Prince, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>George Michael has sold more than 80 million records worldwide in a career spanning four decades.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to release a documentary in 2017 after a period of living as a virtual recluse in which he hit the headlines for a series of bizarre incidents linked to drugs. Earlier this month, it was also announced that producer and songwriter Naughty Boy was working with Michael on a new album to come out next year.<\/p>\n<p>Michael was best known for his &quot;Club Tropicana&quot;, &quot;Last Christmas&quot;, &quot;Careless Whisper&quot; and &quot;Faith&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (SW): Pop superstar George Michael s death at the age of 53 from suspected heart failure is being treated by police as &#8220;unexplained but not suspicious&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}