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Thirty years later, the Boy still has it. There are lots of remixes of this, with varying results.

“In the early 80s there was this sense that things were changing, and becoming more open-minded. But we don’t have that sort of gorgeous youth culture any more, the glam rockers, the New Romantics. People aren’t so individual any more. There is this sense of why would you want to stand out and make a show of yourself? You can …

In an phone interview on Larry Flick’s SiriusOutQ show today, Boy George announced a Culture Club reunion tour for later this year. “Oh absolutely, it is happening, we have planned it. We are having our big launch to announce it in October. We’re going to do a big thing in London and then we are going to come on tour …

The Unconventionals, one-time British X-Factor contestants, very properly label this fantastically poppy holiday clip on YouTube with the tags “Phil Spector, Ronettes, Chiffons, Crystals, and Mariah Carey.” I generally detest Xmas music, but freekin’ HELL I love this. Featuring cameos by Matt Lucas and Boy George. (Unconventionals lead vocalist Drew Jaymson played Steve Strange in Boy George’s musical Taboo.) PLAY …

Boy George teamed up with Mark Ronson on the UK’s Jools Holland Show this week. The Boy’s still got it. Looking forward to the studio version.

Wow! This is fantastic. The female vocalist is Portuguese pop star Ana Lains. Best song of 2010! So far! (Tipped by Justin Bond) NOTE: This clip is a fan upload, hence the misleading “By Adam” chyron. Boy George’s official YouTube channel is here, where this clip is not embeddable.

Boy George has been sentenced to 15 months in prison on last year’s conviction for false imprisonment. The judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court said the star, real name George O’Dowd, has used “gratuitous violence.” He was convicted last month of false imprisonment by a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court on December 5th but was bailed to await sentence. O’Dowd denied …

Boy George was found guilty in his false imprisonment trial in the UK and may go to jail. Boy George faces jail next month for falsely imprisoning a rent boy at his flat. The openly gay 80s singer was told in court today that custody was ‘the most likely option’ after a jury convicted him of handcuffing Norwegian male escort …

From Boy George’s false imprisonment trial: On a tape played at his false-imprisonment trial, singer Boy George admits to cops to restraining a male prostitute whom he thought had hacked into his computer. The 47-year-old former Culture Club frontman denies, however, that he whipped the 29-year-old man. “I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs, so he wouldn’t go …

Boy George’s trial for false imprisonment began in the UK yesterday. A Norwegian escort told a court Monday that Boy George manacled him to a bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain after accusing him of hacking into his computer. The former Culture Club singer is on trial for the false imprisonment of 29-year-old Audun Carlsen. The 47-year-old …

Boy George has been denied a U.S. visa and will not be able to conduct his planned tour or his free concert for the NYC Department of Sanitation. His managers said in a statement Monday that the visa denial was not because of his past brush with the law in the U.S. but was because he is awaiting trial in …

Boy George will be performing a free concert for the New York Department of Sanitation at their Family Day event on August 17th as thanks for their kindness to him during his court-ordered stint with them last year. George: “The people I worked alongside showed great kindness to me at a very difficult time, and I wanted to thank them …

Courtesy of the promoters, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to Boy George in Concert: All The Hits From Culture Club And Beyond, which takes place August 14th at Terminal 5 in New York City. BOY GEORGE is coming to Terminal 5 to sing “The Hits of Culture Club and Beyond” on Thursday, August 14. It’s his first …

Since we’re talking Boy George today, I thought I’d put up my personal favorite, Mistake Number Three, from 1984’s Waking Up With The House On Fire. Rumor at the time was that “mistake number three” was the girl that Jon Moss was then pursuing. Mistakes one and two were the two times that Moss and George had been boyfriends. So …

“We live in this kind of culture now which pretends to accept everything. So there’s this kind of pseudo-acceptance of everything that’s different. But the reality is: it’s not true. Today’s gay pop stars are out of the closet, but they don’t express anything about their sexuality. They don’t ever use the word “he” in their songs. They think they …

“I open my mouth and bitchy things come out. I’m really trying to curb that. It doesn’t make me look good. I was reading some things I’d said and I sounded horrible. I had a big row with Elton John and David Furnish about some queeny remark I’d made. But I regretted it and apologised to David. He was so …

Boy George O’Dowd is scheduled to stand trial in February for an April incident in which he chained a male escort to the wall of his London home. According to The Mirror, O’Dowd met the escort on Gaydar.com and invited him over for a £400 “photo session.” The next morning the hooker wriggled free from his bonds, ran into the …

Boy George is in jail in London after a prostitute told police that he’d been chained to a wall all night by George and another man. The hooker had arrived at midnight for an $800 “photo session” after meeting Boy George on Gaydar.com. He later escaped George’s London apartment in his underwear, calling the police from a local shop. George …

“I do think it’s shocking that somebody who has made so much money out of gay people is now part of an organisation which is anti-gay.” – Boy George, speaking against Madonna and her relationship with Kabbalah, about which he says, “I have investigated it and they are homophobic.” (YouTube.) In the past, George has called Madonna “a vile, hideous, …