| 1. George was born to a Greek father and a Jewish mother. |
| 2. His first band was 'The Executive' (1979-80), formed in the summer of 1979. |
| 3. After schooling, he formed the band Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley. |
| 4. In 1986, Wham! split up, and he went solo with the hit "I Want Your Sex". |
| 5. In 1988, he won a Grammy Award for the song "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)" and his album 'Faith' won the Grammy for Album of the Year. |
| 6. In 1998, he announced that he was gay after an arrest for lewd conduct. |
| 7. In 2000, he bought John Lennon's Steinway Model Z upright piano. |
| 8. In 2008, he released the song "December Song" as a free download for charity. |
| 9. He was partially color-blind and wore contact lenses. |
| 10. He had 11 UK #1 hits and sold over 100 million albums in his career. |
| 11. His last album, Symphonica, was released in 2014. |
| 12. He died in 2016, 32 years after writing the song 'Last Christmas'. |
| 13. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. |
| 14. George was born to a Greek Cypriot father and an English mother. |
| 15. He participated in Band Aid's UK number-one single 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' in 1984 and performed at Live Aid in 1985. |
| 16. In 1991, his duet with Elton John 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me' became a No. 1 hit, with proceeds going to London Lighthouse AIDS hospice and Rainbow Trust Children's Charity. |
| 17. In 1996, he was voted Best British Male at the MTV Europe Music Awards and Brit Awards, and awarded Songwriter of the Year at the Ivor Novello Awards for the third time. |
| 18. In 2011, he recovered from a coma after developing pneumonia. |
