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• singer’s estate said they were “delighted” to have the 14-time Grammy winner interpolate his 1987 track, “Father Figure.” The estate said that Michael — who died on Christmas Day in 2016 at age 58 — would have fully backed the song's inclusion in Swift's album.
• The original song, which debuted on Michael's debut studio album “Faith” in 1987, alluded to the singer's life as a gay man — though he had not declared his sexuality at the time.