i newspaper, May 2, 2018
Given the choice, would you put ‘singer’ or ‘George Michael’ in the heading?
This is what I would have done:
George Michael shrines to be taken down
‘The late George Michael’? Would you put the story in the paper if you thought readers did not know he was dead? You need ‘late’ only when someone has recently died, and there is a possibility that not everyone knows, as in ‘The seat was held by the late Fred Smith’, or when the people in a story are not well known, as in ‘Mr Brown took over the farm from his late father’.
Three quotation marks is excessive.
‘Up until’ is ignorant. You could say ‘until’ or ‘up to’.