George Michael's "Last Christmas" sweetens the festive season, but his tragic death on Christmas day seven years ago still lingers. Do you know what his cause of death was?
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00:00 For nearly 40 years, Last Christmas has been played continuously during the holiday season.
00:06 George Michael passed away suddenly on Christmas Day 2016, and his voice has been missed ever
00:11 since.
00:13 George Michael co-founded Wham! alongside Andrew Ridgely in 1981.
00:19 Together, in 1984, they created one of the most iconic Christmas songs of all time, Last
00:25 Christmas.
00:26 Decades later, on December 25, 2016, George Michael tragically passed away at his home
00:32 in Oxfordshire, England, at the age of just 53.
00:36 His partner, Vaati Fawaz, found the singer lifeless in bed on Christmas Day.
00:42 Billboard magazine reported that the last Christmas legend died of heart failure, according
00:46 to his manager, Michael Lipman.
00:49 An autopsy determined that George Michael had an enlarged heart muscle known as dilated
00:53 cardiomyopathy.
00:56 It was also found that he had an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle and fatty liver.
01:01 George Michael was laid to rest at Highgate North London Cemetery in London.
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