The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
BOY GEORGEI think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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I have the best job in the world. There’s not really a lot to moan or whine about. I’ve got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
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You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
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[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
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I am thinking of George Michael’s family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating.
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I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.
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Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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I’m always being inspired .
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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