I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME
GEORGE MICHAEL
SONGWRITERS: שרים אלדד;
REID,MICHAEL BARRY & SHAMBLIN,JAMES ALLEN II
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: THE LOVE ALBUM IV
LABEL: VIRGIN TV
GENRE: POP FOLK
YEAR: 1997
George Michael(born Georgios Kyriacos
Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer, songwriter,
and record producer. He is considered one of the most significant cultural
icons of the MTV generation and is one of the best-selling
musicians of all time, with sales of over 120 million
records worldwide. Michael is known as a leading creative force in music production,
songwriting, vocal performance, and visual presentation. He achieved seven
number-one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number-one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. Michael
won various music awards,
including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three American
Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music
Awards, and four MTV Video
Music Awards. In 2015, he was ranked 45th in Billboard's
list of the "Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time". The Radio Academy named him the most played artist on British radio during the period
1984–2004.
Born in East Finchley,
North London, Michael rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later
embarked on a solo career. Forming the duo Wham! With Andrew Ridgeley in 1981, the band's first two albums, Fantastic(1983)
and Make It Big(1984),
reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200.
Their hit singles included "Wake Me Up
Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas".
Establishing themselves as a global act, Wham! toured China in April 1985; the
tour was the first visit to China by a Western popular music act, and it generated worldwide media coverage.
Michael's first solo single, "Careless Whisper",
reached number one in over 20 countries, including the UK and US. Before
embarking on the production of his first solo album, Michael went on to release
two more number-one singles, "A Different Corner"
and the Aretha Franklin duet "I Knew You
Were Waiting (For Me)". Michael's debut solo
album, Faith,
was released in 1987, topping the UK Albums Chart and staying at number one on
the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks. Globally it sold 25 million copies, and four
singles from the album—"Faith",
"Father Figure",
"One More Try",
and "Monkey"—reached
number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Michael became the best-selling music artist of 1988,
and Faith was awarded Album of the
Year at the 1989 Grammy Awards.
His second solo album, Listen
Without Prejudice Vol. 1(1990), sold approximately
eight million copies and was a UK number-one. It included the Billboard Hot 100
number-one "Praying for Time"
and the worldwide hit "Freedom! '90".
A 1991 live duet with Elton John, "Don't Let the
Sun Go Down on Me", was also a transatlantic
number one. Michael went on to release two more multimillion-selling albums, Older(1996)
and Patience (2004).
Outside music, Michael was an active LGBT rights campaigner
and HIV/AIDS charity
fundraiser. His personal life, drug use, and legal troubles made headlines
during the late 1990s and 2000s, as he was arrested for public lewdness in 1998
and was arrested for multiple drug-related offences after that time. Michael came out as gay
in 1998. The 2005 documentary A Different
Story covered his career and personal
life. Michael's 25 Live tour spanned
three tours from 2006 to 2008. Michael fell into a coma in 2011 during a bout
with pneumonia, but later recovered. He performed his final concert at London's
Earls Court in 2012. On 25 December 2016, Michael was found dead of heart
disease at his home in Goring-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire.
Turn down the lights
Turn down the bed
Turn down these voices
Inside my head
Lay down with me
Tell me no lies
Just hold me close
Don't patronize
Don't patronize me
'Cause I can't make you love me
If you don't
You can't make your heart feel
Something that it won't
Here in the dark
These final hours
I will lay down my heart
And I feel the power
But you won't
No, you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't
I'll close my eyes
Then I won't see
The love you do not feel
When you're holdin' me
Mornin' will come
And I'll do what's right
Just give me 'til then
To give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
And I can't make you love me
If you don't
You can't make your heart feel
Something that it won't
And here in the dark
In these final hours
I will lay down my heart
I feel the power
But you won't
No, you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't
Ain't no use in you tryin'
It's no good for me baby
Without love
All my tears, all these years, everything
I believed in
Baby
Oh, yeah
Someone's gonna love me.
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