Oh, Karma...?

I love @BoyGeorge. I've always have. I love his music with Culture Club and also his solo efforts. And I think he's a very interesting person to boot. You have to be, I guess, after being in the public eye for such a long time. I also think achieving THAT level of fame when you're barely 21 years old is a heavy burden. When I was 21 I could barely think about my future, let alone be ready to face world scrutiny while keeping a secret relationship with a bisexual man with whom I worked while making tons of money for a corporation. And the thing is, I think people really underestimated Boy George (and Culture Club by default). Proof is that he's still going (and so is the group, sans Moss) more than forty years after they were accused of being a flash in the pan. Such sweet revenge.

I am currently reading Karma, Boy George's autobiography, after devouring Take It Like A Man, a memoir he wrote with Spencer Bright in the early nineties (both courtesy of my trusty local library). But really, that first book came out fresh the first scuffle George had with the law (lots of cocaine involved) and before he had that episode with the sex worker. You know which one. And I’m hoping in Karma he goes deeper into that and his feud with some ex-lovers (I’m looking at you, John Moss!) something that he mentions by passing in the podcast I'm posting below. 

He seems to be in a much better place. Still raising hell, but with a steadier hand. The Three Principles approach seems to be working wonders.

XOXO

P.S. He's also got a brand new solo album coming out: 

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