A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
BOY GEORGEI don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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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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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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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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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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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
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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 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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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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