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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.

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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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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 was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.
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When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
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I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn’t the usual stuff like, “Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that…” It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.

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