In 2005, Michael’s then-partner, Dallas’ own Kenny Goss, opened Goss Gallery on Cedar Springs. It soon gave way to the Goss-Michael Foundation, which remains...
, shared with boyhood friend Andrew Ridgeley — serve collectively as an exploration of Wham evolving from 1970s best buds into 1980s pop icons before Michael broke away to launch an auspicious career as a solo artist.. He topped the charts in the U.S. eight times and notched seven No. 1 songs in the UK. In addition to two Grammy Awards , he won six Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and three BRIT Awards.
Having written more than 60 songs of his own, Michael could switch gears and cover someone else’s work as well as anyone ever has. “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” composed by Allen Shamblin and Michael Reid, is one of the best heartbreak ballads ever written. It became a monster hit for Bonnie Raitt, butEvery time I hear it, I can’t stop seeing Michael as a portrait of solitude, sad and quiet on a hot night in Dallas in 2005.
He went through so much in his 53 years — losing a partner to AIDS, battling drug addiction and physical torment, being arrestedincarcerated, ostracized for exercising his right to protest a war in which hundreds of thousands died, which exposed him to a tabloid firestorm — and yet, the music endures, whether it’s the youthful joy of the Wham years or the deeply felt moments of “I Can’t Make You Love...
You can’t make your heart feel somethin’ it won’t/Here in the dark, in these final hours/I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power/But you won’t, no you won’t/‘Cause I can’t make you love me/If you don’t.. Michael Granberry was born and grew up in Dallas. He graduated from Samuell High School in Pleasant Grove in 1970 and from Southern Methodist University in 1974. Between his junior and senior years, he interned at The Washington Post during "the Watergate summer" of 1973.
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