Biography
6 years after the exclusion from school, George wrote a composition headed by hit parades in Europe and America. Gay and Buntar, style icon and a convinced Buddhist, a former drug addict, turned into Vegan, seems to be the song "Karma Chameleon" the musician composed about himself.Childhood and youth
The singer, whose real name George Allan was born in the southeast of London in a Catholic family, which has a long-standing Bunctric tradition - a cousin of the future Showman British executed as a fighter for the independence of Ireland. Irish roots made itself felt in 1992, when the musician is specifically for the Thriller "Brutal Game", dedicated to the confrontation of the Irish Republican Army and the United Kingdom, recorded the version of the Schuker of the 1920s of the 20th century "The Crying Game".
Embed from getty imagesGeorge is the second of five common children of the builder of Jeremiah (Jeremy) O'Daud and his wife Dean. In addition, before Marriage, the mother of the singer gave birth to another child - the son of Richard.
The musician compares the history of his family with the plot of the sad Irish song, and the deceased father characterizes as a unimportant dad and a terrible husband. In the memoirs published in 2007, Dina O'Dud had told that the spouse was multiplely beaten by her, including when she snaveed George. In 1995, the junior brother of the singer Gerald, suffering from schizophrenia, accused of murdering his wife.
George with adolescence used makeup, painted her hair and loved to wear female clothes. To the student form, as well as most school items, and the Androgine young man treated with disgust, the classes skipped, and addressed to teachers, using the nicknames invented them. At the age of 15, the future star was excluded from school.
At the age of 17, the guy left his parents and began his independent life, working out in supermarkets and short-term evening in gay clubs. George's company was an androgic leaving with Jamaica Peter Anthony Robinson, who made her nicknamed Marilyn's pseudonym, who had been awarded former coarterers. The young men composed songs, and their idols were David Bowie and Mark Bolan.
Music
George made his debut as a singer in the Bow Wow Wow group, playing a dance punk with elements of Burundi Bit, where the former SEX Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren was invited. The guy took the back of the backbone and began to perform at concerts under the pseudonym Lieutenant Lush. The artist with extravagant appearance began to eclipse the solts, and they drove George from the team.In 1981, the 20-year-old O'Dud created a music team, which was first called "SEX Gang Children", then "Praise of Lemmings" and finally - "Culture Club". The last name reflected the multiculturalism of the group, members of which, except Irish George, were Anglo-Saxo Roy Hey, Jew John Moss and a native of Jamaica Miki Craig. It was then that the singer took the pseudonym the fight George.
Three songs from the debut album of the Kissing to Be Clever group, released in 1982, entered the top ten hits of the United States, and the single "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" took the 1st place in the charts of 12 countries. So at 21, George became the world star and style icon.
CHURCH OF POISON MIND and KARMA Chameleon songs from the second album "Color by Numbers" headed the hit parades on both sides of the Atlantic. The clip, shot on the "chameleon" composition, and now surprises tolerance - under the cheerful melody "White" and blacks and blacks of both sexes in the costumes of the beginning of the 20th century float on the Mississippi steamer, and the battle of George will sollece in a female dress with pigtails on his head.
Although the musician's discography includes dozens of albums, the success achieved "Culture Club", after the collapse of the group, could not be repeated. The most successful project of George in subsequent years is considered to be "Jesus Loves You", and the most harmonious compositions - the anthem Krishna "Bow Down Mister" and solo single "Everything I Own".
In the 90s of the 20th century, George's fight was carried away by DJling and on the night of July 1, 1997, when Hong Kong passed under China's jurisdiction, held a grand party in this capacity.
Personal life
Although in an early interview, the singer joked that any sex would prefer a cup of well-brewed tea, his personal life was always under the sight of the press. In 2006, George's battlely announced a non-traditional sexual orientation, but in the 20th century the musician publicly condemned the homophobic policy of Margaret Thatcher.
Embed from getty imagesLovers of the star, in addition to Anthony Robinson, were now married and having three children drummer "Culture Club" John Moss, to whom George devoted a lot of songs, and singer Kirk Brandon, in 1997 she submitted to George to court "for malicious lie in the published autobiography."
In 2015, the fight George, being a mentor in the English version of "Voice," said that he slept with the famous heterosexual novels by the singer Roy Nelson Prince, but later I called my words an unsuccessful joke.
The treason of John Moss with women pushed the artist to experiments with prohibited substances. George's battle tried all drugs, with the exception of intravenous, and had numerous conflicts with the law. Relief from dependence helped by Buddhism and treatment in specialized clinics.
In early 2009, the star was sentenced to 15 months in prison for violence against an employee of the Escort Agency Karlsen. After 4 months, the punishment was softened for good behavior, and the remainder of the singer was under house arrest.
In 2002, the Tabu musical was put on Broadway about the singer and his friends. The fight George performed as the author of the text and one of the composers. In 2010, the BBC TWO BBC Company released the feature film "Losing about Boy", dedicated to the singer's biography. The main role in the tape was performed by 18-year-old Douglas Booth. George's fight said he was pleased with the way the young actor recreated his image in his youth.
Interesting fact: In 2011, the musician handed over to Cyprus an Orthodox icon, which he acquired in the mid-1980s of the 20th century. The shrine was abducted 11 years before her purchase George from St. Harlampia's Church during Turkey's invasion of Cyprus.
Boy George now
Now the star lives in London, owns a house on Ibiza and an apartment in New York. In the photo laid out in "Instagram", the fight George looks slim and tightened, which explains in a healthy lifestyle, and ill-wishers - liposuction.Embed from getty imagesIn June 2019, it became known that the life and work of the "Irish chameleon" are going to remove another feature film. Russian fans of the singer are building guesses about whether they will die in Russian rental ribbon, as they did with Bayopic about Elton John.
Discography
- 1982 - "Kissing to Be Clever"
- 1983 - "Colour by Numbers"
- 1987 - "SOLD"
- 1988 - "TENSE NERVOUS HEADACHE"
- 1989 - "Boyfriend"
- 1989 - "HIGH HAT"
- 1990 - "The Martyr Mantras" ("Jesus Loves You")
- 1993 - "At Worst ... The Best of Boy George and Culture Club"
- 1995 - "Cheapness and Beauty"
- 1998 - "The Unrecoupable One Man Bandit"
- 1999 - "Everything I Own"
- 2002 - "Taboo ORIGINAL LONDON CAST"
- 2002 - "Classic Masters"
- 2002 - "U CAN NEVER B2 STRAIGHT"
- 2002 - "Culture Club Box Set"
- 2004 - "The Annual 1, 2, 3, 4"
- 2004 - "Dance Nation 1, 2, 4, 5"
- 2004 - "Yum Yum"
- 2010 - "Ordinary Alien"
- 2013 - "This is what i do"