George Michael the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004. The 2005 documentary "A Different Story" covered his career and personal life. Michael's first tour in 15 years, the 25 Live tour, spanned three tours over the course of three years (2006, 2007, and 2008). He performed his final concert at London's Earls Court on 17 October 2012. In the early hours of 25 December 2016, Michael, aged 53, was found dead at his Oxfordshire home. A coroner's report attributed his death to natural causes. George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, London on 25 June
Kyriacos C. Markides Kyriacos C. Markides Kyriacos C. Markides (born November 19, 1942) is a professor of sociology at the University of Maine who has written several books on Christian mysticism. In his early books he explored first a circle of "healers" on Cyprus surrounding "Daskalos" (a pseudonym for Stylianos Atteshlis ), who combined some Christian beliefs with shamanistic practices, and latterly mystical Christianity through his association with a charismatic elder, Father Maximos, a former monk from Mount Athos, and a close disciple when on Athos of the great 20th century Greek Saint Paisios. (Maximos is, apparently, Markides' pseudonym for a Cypriot bishop,