Book description
From his days as a club face alongside Philip Sallon, Marilyn and
Steve Strange, through the years of global pop superstardom with
Culture Club, his rebirth as a world-class DJ, as a leading light of
musical theatre with the award-winning Taboo, a cutting edge
photographer and a confrontational and acclaimed fashion designer, one
of the many things you can say about George is: he's never stood still.
It's been one hell of a trip. A decade and a half ago, George was
coming to terms with the fall-out from serious drug addiction, the
failure of his relationship with Jon Moss and the collapse of Culture
Club. For lesser men this would have been the end but for George it
became the start of a period of remarkable reinvention.
Told with George's trademark biting wit, brutal honesty and
sparkling insight, this book reveals the whole story, reappraising his
rise to stardom and all the madness that followed. He talks about his
solo singing career, his initiation into the dance music scene, and
his role as the driving force behind theatrical sensation Taboo.
George also discusses the achievement of the apparently impossible
task of reuniting the famously fractious Culture Club.
It is only now, many years on from the glittering, glossy Eighties,
that George makes an insightful and often hilarious assessment of the
impact of that extraordinary era.
Since the break up of Culture Club, Boy George has become one of the
leading figures in the dance music revolution, DJIng around the world
and setting up the independent record label, More Protein. He was also
the co-writer and occasional star of the hit West End and Broadway show
Taboo. Boy George continues to make music as a solo artist and is a
photographer of note. He is also the design vision behind the fashion
label B-RUDE. Boy George currently lives in New York.
