Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
BOY GEORGEThe Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
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As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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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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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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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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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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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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Most of my influences are from the past.
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I’m always being inspired .
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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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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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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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What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
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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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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
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