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Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

Boy George

His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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Breath Designing Refreshing Talking
I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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Challenge Mentally Physical Think
My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.
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Big Different Famous Gay Long Step
So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
BOY GEORGE

Behind Happening Punk Revolution Some
I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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Empty Felt Successful
The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
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Discovering Rocks Sex Teenager
I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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Ideas Like Punk Something
You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
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Drug Find Interesting Out Thing
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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Four Unwelcome Years
On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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Body Culture Gay Men Woman
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
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Alowm Anything Say Trying World
A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
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Lasts Relationships Therapy Two Years
Most of my influences are from the past.
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Influence Most Past People
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
BOY GEORGE

Cups Sex Tea
I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
BOY GEORGE

Huge Important Orthodox People Singing
For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
BOY GEORGE

Better Good Gotten Older Younger

Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

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Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

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