POPPED IDOL
It's this very contrariness that has made him an icon. With his band Culture Club in the early 1980s, he shocked and delighted in equal parts, attacking stereotypes and rejigging boundaries. With his pigtailed hair and come-to-me eyes, he looked like a girl but took it like a man. Big hands, a genetic inheritance from his father, Jerry O'Dowd, the boxer and builder whose volatility, machismo and sweetness he also inherited. George looks like his mother, Dinah. They have the same penetrating eyes, which speak of sadness and courage. Both suffered physically at the hands of his father, who punched Dinah in the stomach when she was pregnant.
George left school in his early teens (at 13 or 15, depending on who you ask) to work in a clothes shop in Soho. He lived in a squat, worked as a cloakroom attendant at Blitz club (where he stole cash from the till and met Malcolm McLaren), was a model and briefly joined the band Bow Wow Wow before forming his own. His glory period was 1982-6, when Culture Club sold 35m records. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and the jaunty Karma Chameleon were the hits, but it was songs like Victims that showcased his lyrical talent and his gift to articulate pain. As a butch man who could appear as a beautiful girl, he made his fans believe that they too could transform themselves. But by the time the album From Luxury to Heartache appeared in 1986, the luxury had gone and the heartache was gaining pace.
L'idole de sa comédie musicale de Broadway est effondré,
il n'a pas fait parler de lui musicalement pendant des années, et la seule
médiatisation qu'il est eu récemment était pour balayer les rues de New York.
Boy George ne peut-il jamais revivre les joies de son succès passé ?
14-11-2006 dans PRESSE | Lien permanent
SATURDAY 26th DECEMBER - GARLAND'S - LIVERPOOL - UK -
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SATURDAY 26Th DECEMBER -Tabloid Boxing Day Blowout- Special Guest Boy George on the dex - FIRE VAUXHALL - UK
THURSDAY 31th DECEMBER - CREAM ARENA - CHESTER - UK & FLAMINGO'S - BLACKPOOL - http://www.flamingoonline.co.uk/

FRIDAY 1st JANUARY - DTPM, London, UK
Buy tickets @ www.ticketweb.co.uk

FRIDAY 6th FEBRUARY - GLISTEN, Ashford, UK
Info @ www.theglistenexperience.com
FRIDAY 13th FEBRUARY - BULLIT, Tamworth, UK
Info @ www.bullit.biz
and
FRIDAY 13th FEBRUARY - QI, Mansfield, UK
Info @ www.qinightclub.co.uk
FRIDAY 26th FEBRUARY, MANGO, Reading, UK
Info @ www.barmango.com
and
FRIDAY 26th FEBRUARY, EMBASY, london, UK (TBC)
Info @ www.embassylondon.com
SUNDAY 28th FEBRUARY, BROADWAY BOULEVARD
Llandudno, Wales, UK
Info @ www.broadwayboulevard.co.uk
FRIDAY 26th MARCH, CLUB AMADEUS, Northallerton, UK
Info @ Club Amadeus Facebook Page
SUNDAY 4th APRIL, THE REGAL, OXFORD, UK
Info @ www.the-regal.com
SATURDAY 17th APRIL, LIQUID, Bern, Swithzerland
Info @ www.liquid-bern.ch
"Up close & personal "
at Leicester Square Theatre

20,21,22,23,27,28,29,30,31 December 2009.
Boy George needs little introduction…he shot to international stardom in the 80’s as the front man of one of the UK’s biggest exports Culture Club and has remained one of the world’s most recognisable iconic figures…however George himself says…’I am sometimes recognised for all the wrong reasons’. In advance of his 2010 European Tour George will perform a set of exclusive intimate shows at Leicester Square Theatre…stripped down, acoustic, unplugged whatever cliché you want to call it this set of exclusive concerts lies bare George as an artist, singer, lyricist and musician – this is simply ‘The Man and his Music’… performing his biggest hits from Culture Club, his solo career, new writing and covers from his own music heroes. DON’T MISS ONE OF THE BEST SOUL VOICES AND MOST COLOURFUL PERSONALITIES BRITIAN AS EVER PRODUCED!
£35.00-£45.00

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE, LONDON, UK
Sunday, December 20th @ 7:30 PM (7:00 PM doors)
Monday, December 21th @ 9:30 PM (9:00 PM doors)
Tuesday, December 22th @ 9:30 PM (9:00 PM doors)
Wednesday, December 23th @ 9:30 PM (9:00 PM doors)
Sunday, December 27th @ 7:30 PM (7:00 PM doors)
Monday, December 28th @ 9:30 PM (9:00 PM doors)
Tuesday, December 29th @ 9:30 PM (9:00 PM doors)
Wednesday, December 30th @ 9:30 PM (9:00 PM doors)
Thursday, December 31st @ 4:30 PM (4:00 PM doors)
2010 UK TOUR
Friday, April 16th @ Lighthouse, Poole
Sunday, April 18th @ Grand Theater, Blackpool
Monday, April 19th @ Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham
Tuesday, April 20th @ Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK
Wednesday April 21st @ The Sage, Gateshead
Thursday, April 22nd @ The Lowry, Manchester
Friday, April 23rd @ Embassy Theatre, Skegness
Saturday, April 24th @ Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, UK
Monday, April 26st @ Grand Theatre, Swansea
Tuesday, April 27th @ Cheltenham
2010 UK TOUR HERE & NOW
THE VERY BEST OF THE 80'S
Sunday, June 20th @ Isle of Man
Saturday, August 7th @ Ascot Racecourse, Berkshire
2010 EUROPEAN DATES

Wuhlheide Open Air 2010
feat. BOY GEORGE / KARAT
SUZI QUATRO / THE HOLLIES
BONEY M. feat. Liz Mitchell
FALCO FOREVER
(program changes reserved)
Saturday, July 3rd @ Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide, Germany
BRAND NEW AMERICAN HEART (BLISS feat BOY GEORGE)
Boy George avec CULTURE CLUB COLD SHOULDER live tv 2000
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