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    • rc,

      I am thinking of doing the same thing. I emailed Ricky and he doesn’t know why my posts are coming up in moderation. I haven’t even been posting recently.

      I just changed my password. Maybe I will try a new username in WordPress.

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    • rc,

      I don’t know! Ricky said that there was a problem with the site and maybe when he fixed it, another problem was created.

      Can your WordPress account expire? I changed my password. But I didn’t create another account yet.

      This happened to me before. My posts started showing up in moderation and I emailed Ricky. I wasn’t put in moderation. So then he made a change to my user name. If you notice, now it reads “On Nativenewyorker” instead of just “Nativenewyorker”.

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        • Ah bingo 😀

          Nny,

          All I know is that it wasn’t easy. Finally it works and I’m not sure how much had to do with Ricky or me lol…odd that it happened to both of us at the same time. And now I’m ratcliff10 not plain ol’ ratcliff ?

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    • Oh this song made me cry! I feel like I lost a big piece of my youth with the death of George Michael! That incredible voice! I want to just listen to his music. That is how I want to remember him. He was immensely talented. But the music will live on. He is gone from us too soon.

      RIP George Michael. Thanks for the music!
      ?

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        • I posted Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, first to show George Michael’s incredible vocals and also just for the sheer joy of this video. When he first started out and he was loving the moment.

          I know that this song wasn’t considered more than just fluff at the time, but I always loved it. I loved the energy and the uplifting feeling. But most of all it showed that this guy had real talent and a voice for the ages.

          We know that he went on to develop into a true R&B artist with a passion for his music and creativity and genius. But this was how it started and the enthusiasm is just infectious.

          George Michael said that coming out as gay did not make his life easier. I have been reading about some of what he went through, the deaths of his Mother and significant other only a few years apart, that sent him spiraling into depression and drugs. The backlash when he came out and his own discomfort with fame.

          I also didn’t know that he almost died of pneumonia while on tour in 2011. He had health problems, some accidents and things were tough for him.

          That’s why I think it’s so appropriate to just post the youtube videos and remember the man’s music. That is the legacy that he left us.

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  14. I never saw this one. George Michael singing the great Freddie Mercury’s signature song, Somebody to Love. It takes something to be able to sing Freddie Mercury, but George Michael did for sure!

    This is a worthy tribute to a dying Freddie, by a man who had the voice to do justice to this great song.

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    • Alison,

      Yes, another great video. I almost posted that one myself!

      This really takes me back to the 80’s and the height of disco. When I could dance and look good going it!

      George Michael left us too soon at only 53, but we will always have the music and the memories. I tried to follow his career throughout the years. I know he had his troubles, but his incomparable talent shines through in all these videos. I had almost forgotten just how brilliant he was as a singer. That voice! He made it look easy!

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  17. Here’s my favorite song that George Micheal ever sang…..he did a great job – put his entire soul in it for reasons of his own at the time…of course Stevie Wonder did this song on a seriously great album recorded right after Nixon was impeached called, The Fullingness’ First Finale. Leave it to me to adore the darkest of pieces.

    George Micheal singing, They won’t go when I go.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oata-ksmxjg

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    • wow rc! haven’t heard that song before. that gave me gooseflesh – george’s voice was unbelievable in it, so raw and exposed. frigging unbelievable stuff and thank you for posting it..

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    • ^ Yes to this! I do admit that George Michael was my guilty crush, too! Along with that amazing voice, he was just a gorgeous man!

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    • rc i just listened to this!! but thanks for the kind thought. great minds think alike hey?? i have just been looking up the album you mention. must give it a listen.
      why are our great artists dying this year when we most need them…? remember cohen: there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in….
      thanks rc…

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      • amy,
        Yes…I worry about Chomsky, Atwood, and Bernie…may they live long.
        From that now rather obscure album…I’m listening to the whole thing because I never have. I remember some songs. But I don’t remember this song I’ll post. It’s my duty to dig up and dust some of this off.
        On a different note. We have to keep loving in the time of Trump
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuy6QSVPsus

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        • thanks loads rc. not sure i can take listening to something else which is so beautiful. i cried bucketfulls over that last song.
          yes we have to keep loving when it’s hardest. that will be how we fight. that’s also how people make their greatest art.

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          • by atwood i presume you mean margaret atwood? i read a ton of novels by her summer before last…i have the blind assassin next to me right now to reread for the 3rd time.

          • Oh gosh, really? Kidding me. Blind Assassin is on my bedside table lol, right now….was going to reread it because I’m too lazy to order a new book and there’s so many I want…..last time I read Blind Assassin was long enough ago that it will do exactly fine for what I want right now. But my car is frozen and covered with snow and better go see if it will start before I have to go to work tomorrow!

            I read Handmaid’s Tale again last week — had to order it used. Every time I have a copy, I end up giving it away.

            You probably read her trilogy — Oryx and Crake was my favorite….I’m a little twisted. I have yet to read her two most recent ones.

          • there’s a cohincidence rc! great novel and so detailed and precise and lyrical you can read it countless times and find new things in it. i don’t know oryx and crake so will aim to read it soon. have you read alias grace? that’s another amazing novel although very dark at the same time…..

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