![]() ![]() When Michael passed away on Christmas in 2016, it had been 12 years since his last studio album, 20 years since his last Top 10 hit in the US and 27 years since he won the Grammy for Album of the Year with Faith, the 1987 blockbuster that spawned classics like the title track and “Father Figure.” For a brief moment in the late ‘80s, he was the biggest star in the world, an ex-boy band member who managed to reinvent himself into a solo star who could stand beside the icons of the era-Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince-with striking visuals, an undeniable voice and some of the decade’s most memorable songs. But the third was a surprise pick: George Michael, the ‘80s pop superstar best known to contemporary listeners for the unabashedly sentimental holiday classic “Last Christmas” and the supermodel extravaganza of 1991’s David Fincher-directed “Freedom! ‘90.” Two of them-Jane’s Addiction and Soundgarden-were unsurprising, rock acts that share a clear sonic kinship with Hawkins’ band. In 2021, when the Foo Fighters were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Taylor Hawkins used part of his speech to pay tribute to three other artists.
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