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George’s iconic gear auctioned
AN auction frenzy is on the way as George Michael’s iconic clothes are put up for sale.
The black “Rockers” leather jacket and Ray-ban sunglasses he wore in the Faith video are up for grabs, along with a Jeanpaul Gaultier studded jacket he wore for the I Want Your Sex video.
Fans of the star – who died on Christmas Day – can also bid for a leather kneelength coat he donned for the 1994 MTV awards at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
Other lots include a platinum disc for the 1984 Wham! album Make It Big, a copy of the 1983 album Fantastic – signed by George and bandmate Andrew Ridgeley – plus a copy of their single Bad Boys.
BATTLE
Then there are five pages of handwritten notes from the Wake Me Up Before You Go-go star’s legal battle with Sony Music in 1992.
Angry George accused record label bosses of viewing artists as little more than “software”.
He wrote: “They do not understand that musicians do not come in regimented shapes and sizes but are individuals who change and evolve along with the audiences.”
The auction, at Bonhams in London on June 28, is tipped to raise at least €35,000.
George, 53, died from heart and liver disease at his home in Goring-on-thames, Oxfordshire.
He was buried next to his mother in Highgate cemetery. Mourners included boyfriend Fadi Fawaz, 44, and ex Kenny Goss, 58.
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