承前*1
ジョージ・マイケルの急死を巡る『ガーディアン』の記事を取り敢えずメモ；
Owen Jones*2 “George Michael was a defiant gay icon. His memory must not be sanitised” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/26/george-michael-defiant-gay-icon-sex-life-lgbt-rights
Alexis Petridis*3 “George Michael was so talented, the template to his success was unique” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/26/george-michael-talented-success-wham-artist-singer-teen-idol
Bob Stanley*4 “Why Wham! were positively the most misunderstood group of the 1980s” https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/dec/26/george-michael-wham-most-misunderstood-group-1980s-thatcherism
Laura Barton*5 “George Michael's songs were more than simple tales of lust and longing” https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/dec/26/george-michael-songs-more-than-lust-and-longing
Maura Johnston “Why George Michael was the greatest pop star of the MTV era” https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/dec/26/why-george-michael-was-the-greatest-pop-star-of-the-mtv-era
Caroline Sullivan*6 “In scandal, George Michael turned out to be completely, revealingly human” https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/dec/26/george-michael-scandal-career-revealingly-human
Nadia Khomami “George Michael's friends and family 'touched beyond words' by tributes” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/27/george-michaels-partner-speaks-of-moment-he-found-singer-dead
別にタブーというわけじゃないのだろうけど、日本語における報道や論説ではジョージ・マイケルのセクシュアリティ、同性愛者であったことはスルーされているように見えたのだが、如何だろうか。
（『ガーディアン』じゃなくて）『ローリング・ストーン』の記事；
Mark Simpson “How George Michael Became Gay Link Between David Bowie and David Beckham” http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/george-michael-gay-link-between-david-bowie-david-beckham-w457892
Michael Hann*8 “Goodbye Rick Parfitt, you were one of rock's heroes” https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/dec/24/goodbye-rick-parfitt-status-quo-rock-heroes-dead
Press Association “Status Quo's Rick Parfitt was 'archetypal rock star' says bandmate” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/26/status-quo-rick-parfitt-archetypal-rock-star-says-bandmate-francis-rossi
*1:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161226/1482717361
*2:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20150317/1426615647
*3:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090309/1236622473 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100728/1280293011 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110729/1311871264 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20120603/1338745679 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20120708/1341677438 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20131028/1382925103 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20140901/1409591774 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160422/1461293723 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161027/1477538541
*4:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100511/1273555779 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20131003/1380818040 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160309/1457542184
*5:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20130522/1369244717 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20150421/1429633231 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160508/1462724150
*6:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20050809 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110729/1311871264 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20141015/1413299704
*7:See http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161225/1482656805
*8:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100517/1274111009 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20140906/1410024029 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20141026/1414286966 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20141205/1417707792 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160229/1456710482 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160417/1460907693 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160424/1461523983 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20160917/1474122276 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161018/1476760956 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161211/1481392355
