Boy George...

My sweet lord.

I'll stop talking to myself now.

*gets confused*

*covets his social services card*

Yup.

That drama that was on last night...

Past the point of "That's xxx, is that ??? oh no they just died of an overdose I don't know who that is, oh HE called me a diamond geezer once, He looks like him but he's just doing a daft impression of him, etc", we did wonder what the point of it all was, really.

Entertaining, I guess.

Whaddayamacallhim, James Corden's sidekick, looked weird as Jon Moss

thoughts from the man himself

"@theboygeorge Verdict, beautifully shot & styled but badly written, it lacks heart and soul!

the dig re martin degville made me laff out loud.

we did wonder what the point of it all was, really

Sums up BBC Drama these days

Kirk, famously, sued and won regarding BGeorge's 'alleged' relationship with him.

How does this square with this dramatic rep?

I thought he famously sued and lost? Obviously not that famously.

In 1995, Kirk Brandon sued for libel claiming that Boy George mentioned a non-existent love affair between them in his autobiography, Take It Like a Man. George won the case and Brandon was ordered to pay £200,000 to Virgin Records, EMI Virgin Music and the book publisher in costs. Brandon declared himself bankrupt, which resulted in Boy George paying over £60,000 in legal fees

He just wouldn't learn, that Brandon boy:

In January 2008 Brandon sued GlaxoSmithKline UK over personal injuries, i.e. addiction, as a result of taking their anti-depressant drug Seroxat.

he won that one though

Nice one, Kirk!

In 1995, Kirk Brandon sued for libel etc

Ah, good old memory.... Where would I be without it?

george in the drama was not bitchy enough.
you just know he would have been killing folks with his verbal barbs.
twas all too clean.
would have loved it to be a 2 parter though.
lots of unanswered areas of the story.
i mean, who was the squat heroin death meant to be ?
just a sideline to get the darker side of drugs into the story, or was there an actual incident that the character was based upon ?

I did wonder, 15 mins to go and JMoss' relationship had only just started, and this had been 'sold' as the story of Moss and O'Dowd...

It did feel like whole chunks of the story had been lopped off to keep it to one episode.

Would have been cooler if James Corden had played Boy George

Then there wouldn't have been room in the phone box for the other guy.

It did feel like whole chunks of the story had been lopped off to keep it to one episode.

For a 90 minute drama it did feel that a lot was missing. It also didn't help that the script jumped backwards and forwards all the time like Velvet Goldmine. I feel that the "George holed up in his house while the press wait outside" story could have been removed and other bits elaborated on some more. Although I did like Steve Strange's "my grandmother fucking loved you" speech.

New interview with Simon Price

http://thequietus.com/articles/13422-boy-george-interview

Now, Boy George has jumped into the debate to defend Emma Watson. The Culture Club singer took to social media to write:

“Who cares what JK Boring thinks about anything. She is the dullest of the dull.
My real life pisses on her fiction. I stand with Emma Watson. She is a ‘fire horse’. Rowling is a ‘wood snake’.”

I actually played some Culture Club the other day. Just a homemade compilation that I hadn't touched in a while - I'm not the biggest fan, but an 80-minute "best of" covering Boy George's first ten years is perfection. (Basically the usual Culture Club hits & favorites plus the few solo hits he had within that frame, up to and including "The Crying Game.")

Is "Generations of Love" on it? Shit's fire.

If you are into his acid house era, Why Go? with Faithless and the Holy Ghost! remix of Someone To Love would make good codas imo

xp YES!

"Oakenfold Mix" FWIW...I think that was originally known as the "Land of Oz Mix" and one of two different versions that charted.

Also had its own 18-rated VHS single release, possibly inspired by how well the Justify My Love one was selling.

"Move Away" is the CC song I can listen to any time. Not burned out by overplay either.

think i'm right in saying that Boy George is very pro-Israel and a vocal opponent of the BDS movement, so he can do one imo

i do love Time (The Clock Of The Heart) though

"JK Boring" is Morrissey level, nice work.

> think i'm right in saying that Boy George is very pro-Israel and a vocal opponent of the BDS movement

Also worth noting that he served a jail sentence for assault and false imprisonment, so all told, I think Watson can do without his support.

Boy George has had a lot of problems. It doesn't excuse the behavior, which he's mostly atoned for via mea culpas and time served, but it's been bad enough that it's kind of a relief he has it together for the time being.

This particular documentary-as-such is my favorite because it absolutely confirms that when he's in a mood, whooboy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYWGBJ73heI

There is, apparently, a new new documentary en route:

https://www.thewrap.com/boy-george-and-culture-club-review-tribeca-documentary/

"Move Away" is the CC song I can listen to any time. Not burned out by overplay either.

Always had a soft spot for this one, and it garnered decent airplay over here at the time. They even made a Solid Gold appearance for it! Which I can't find so this will have to do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-zfAYH7sHM

Another one from the era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hWVtUkg0po

Same here, good single and a fine example of the kind of warm, lush uptempo pop that was filling up the charts at the time, especially on the other side of the pond (George Michael, Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, even Elton John.)

That 2013 doc is one of my I'm-bored-on-a-Wed-night go-tos.

It's truly amazing.

Good to see mentions of Generations of Love. One of my absolute faves of a stacked era. Shoulda been a huge hit but maybe it was lyrically too downbeat lyrically for the club kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoaOtFAMDzM