I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
BOY GEORGEThe 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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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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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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For me, touring is about looking after myself.
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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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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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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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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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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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It’s quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don’t know how important it is in terms of one’s career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it’s nice to communicate.
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For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion – even sexy – despite being overweight by conventional standards.
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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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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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So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
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