George Alan O'dowd

6 years after being expelled from school, Boy George wrote compositions that topped the charts in Europe and America. Gay and rebel, style icon and staunch Buddhist, ex-drug addict turned vegan - it seems that the musician wrote the song "Karma of the Chameleon" about himself.

The singer, whose real name is George Allan, was born in southeast London into a Catholic family with a long-standing rebellious tradition - the great-uncle of the future showman was executed by the British as a fighter for the independence of Ireland. Irish roots made themselves felt in 1992, when the musician specially for the thriller "Cruel Game", dedicated to the confrontation between the Irish Republican Army and the United Kingdom, recorded a version of the hit 60s of the 20th century "The crying game".

George is the second of five common children of the builder Jeremiah (Jeremy) O'Dowd and his wife Dinah. In addition, before marriage, the singer's mother gave birth to another child - the son of Richard.

The musician compares the story of his family with the plot of a sad Irish song, and describes his late father as an unimportant dad and a terrible husband. In a memoir published in 2007, Deena O'Dowd said that her husband beat her repeatedly, including when she was carrying George. In 1995, the younger brother of the singer Gerald, who suffers from schizophrenia, was accused of murdering his wife.

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George used makeup, dyed his hair and loved to wear women's clothing from adolescence. The androgynous young man treated the student form, like most school subjects with disgust, skipped classes, and turned to teachers using nicknames invented by him. At the age of 15, the future star was expelled from school.

At the age of 17, the guy left his parents and began an independent life, moonlighting in supermarkets and whiling away evenings in gay clubs. George was accompanied by the androgynous Jamaican Peter Anthony Robinson, who made his nickname Marilyn, which he was awarded by former fellow practitioners. The young men wrote songs, and their idols were David Bowie and Mark Bolan.

George made his debut as a singer in Bow Wow Wow, a dance punk band with a burundi beat, recruited by former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren. The guy took the place of backing vocalist and began performing at concerts under the pseudonym Lieutenant Lush. An artist with an extravagant appearance began to overshadow the soloists, and they expelled George from the group.

In 1981, 20-year-old O'Dowd formed a music group called Sex Gang Children, then Praise of Lemmings and finally Culture Club. The latter name reflected the multiculturalism of the group, whose members, in addition to the Irishman George, were the Anglo-Saxon Roy Hay, the Jew John Moss and the native of Jamaica Mickey Craig. It was then that the singer took the pseudonym Boy George.

Three songs from the band's debut album "Kissing to Be Clever", released in 1982, entered the top ten hits in the United States, and the single "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" took 1st place in the charts in 12 countries. So at 21, George became a worldwide star and style icon.

The songs "Church of Poison Mind" and "Karma Chameleon" from the second album "Color By Numbers" topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. The video, shot for the "chameleon" composition, amazes with tolerance now - to the cheerful melody, "white" and black Americans of both sexes in suits of the early 20th century sail on a steamer along the Mississippi, and Boy George is the soloist in a woman's outfit with pigtails on his head.

Although the musician's discography includes dozens of albums, the success achieved by Culture Club could not be repeated after the band broke up. The most successful project of George in the following years is considered "Jesus Loves You", and the most harmonious compositions are the anthem to Krishna "Bow Down Mister" and the solo single "Everything I Own".

In the 90s of the 20th century, Boy George became interested in DJing and on the night of July 1, 1997, when Hong Kong came under the jurisdiction of China, he held a grand party in this capacity.

Although in an early interview the singer joked that he would prefer a cup of well-brewed tea to any sex, his personal life has always been under the gun of the press. In 2006, Boy George openly declared his non-traditional sexual orientation, but as early as the 20th century, the musician publicly condemned the homophobic policies of Margaret Thatcher.

The star's lovers, in addition to Anthony Robinson, were the now married and three-child Culture Club drummer John Moss, to whom George dedicated many songs, and singer Kirk Brandon, who in 1997 sued George "for a malicious lie in a published autobiography."

In 2015, Boy George, being a mentor in the English version of The Voice, said that he had slept with the famous heterosexual romance singer Roy Nelson Prince, but later called his words a bad joke.

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John Moss's betrayals with women pushed the artist to experiment with prohibited substances. Boy George has tried all drugs with the exception of intravenous drugs and has had numerous conflicts with the law. His passion for Buddhism and treatment in specialized clinics helped to get rid of addiction.

In early 2009, the star was sentenced to 15 months in prison for assaulting an escort agency employee Carlsen. After 4 months, the punishment was mitigated for good behavior, and the singer was under house arrest for the rest of the term.

In 2002, the musical Taboo about the youth of the singer and his friends was staged on Broadway. Boy George acted as lyricist and one of the composers. In 2010, the British film company BBC Two released the feature film "Worrying about the Battle", dedicated to the singer's biography. The main role in the film was played by 18-year-old Douglas Booth. Boy George said he was pleased with the way the young actor recreated his image in his youth.

Interesting fact: in 2011, the musician donated an Orthodox icon to Cyprus, which he acquired in the mid-80s of the 20th century. The shrine was stolen 11 years before George bought it from the Church of Saint Harlampius during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

Now the star lives in London, owns a house in Ibiza and an apartment in New York. In the photos posted on Instagram, Boy George looks slender and fit, which explains a healthy lifestyle, and ill-wishers - liposuction.

In June 2019, it became known that another feature film was going to be shot about the life and work of the "Irish chameleon". The singer's Russian fans are speculating about whether the tape will be emasculated in the Russian box office, as they did with the biopic about Elton John.

1982 - "Kissing to Be Clever" 1983 - "Color 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 "

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