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George Alan O'Dowd, known professionally as Boy George, is a British musician, songwriter and DJ who rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. He is also a solo artist and was the lead singer of the band Jesus Loves You. Boy George's music spans several genres, including pop, new wave, soul, soft rock, disco and reggae.
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Born 14 June 1961 · Q312883
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Released ep “Letting Things Go/The Next Thing Will Be Amazing”.
Provided uncredited vocals for Senhit's song "Superstar", which represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest that year
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Released album “SE18”.
Released album “Mind Your Own Existence (Remixes)”.
Released album “Argylle (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)”.
Released ep “London Lingo”.
Boy George was among over 400 artists and public figures who signed an open letter supporting Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Released album “Cool Karaoke Volume 1”.
Boy George was a guest on the BBC's Paul Weller – Live at the Barbican, joining Paul Weller and conductor Jules Buckley for a version of The Style Council's "You're the Best Thing"
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Released album “This Is What I Dub Volume 1”.
Joined Marc Almond and Chrissie Hynde as a vocalist on "Don't Go Changing Soho", a single by Jocasta's Tim Arnold for the Save Soho campaign
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Published video “Life by Boy George & Culture Club is out now!”.
Its eighth season, in 2019 where his final contestant, Diana Rouvas, won the competition, and its ninth season in 2020
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On which it was revealed that he was related to executed Irish revolutionary Thomas Bryan, a member of the "Forgotten Ten"
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Boy George stated that he had been sober since 2 March 2008
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In 2018, Boy George stated that he had been sober since 2 March 2008.
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Published video “BoyGeorgeVEVO Live Stream”.
Collaborated on Pitbull's album Climate Change
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Boy George participated in the last season of The New Celebrity Apprentice on NBC, in which he supported the charity Safe Kids Worldwide and came in second place
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Published video “Wrongun by Marilyn 'Viral clip”.
Published video “Brando Haunted Town”.
BBC Four showed Boy George and Culture Club: From Karma to Calamity a film about a 2014 reunion, a new album, and a planned UK–US tour
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Boy George received an Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Services to British Music
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Published video “Culture Club - More Than Silence (Boy George & Roland Faber Remix)”.
Published video “Culture Club - Runaway Train (New Album Preview Mix)”.
Published video “Culture Club - Oil & Water (New Album Preview Mix)”.
Published video “Culture Club - Like I Used To (New Album Preview Mix)”.
Published video “Boy George - In The Studio with Felix Da Housecat”.
Published video “Boy George - 'The DJ'”.
Published video “Boy George - Look who it is!”.
Published video “Boy George - Nice and Slow”.
Published video “Boy George - My God (Official Video)”.
In 2014, Boy George suffered from a haemorrhaged polyp on his vocal cords, resulting in the cancellation of a Culture Club reunion tour.
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Boy George suffered from a haemorrhaged polyp on his vocal cords, resulting in the cancellation of a Culture Club reunion tour
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The band were back together, publishing a new picture of the four members was also posted, along with a list of 11 concert dates through the UK
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Released album “This Is What I Do”.
Published video “Boy George - King Of Everything”.
Boy George credited his practice of Nichiren Buddhism and chanting Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for his newfound spiritual strength to remain sober
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Released album “Ordinary Alien”.
Released ep “White Xmas”.
Signed a new record deal subsequently releasing the album Ordinary Alien – The Kinky Roland Files in the autumn of 2010
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Released album “Out With the Trash”.
Jerry O'Dowd was physically and mentally abusive and beat her, including when she was pregnant with Boy George
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Toured as a DJ, visiting many venues around the world
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Two electronica/dance collaborations were released in limited editions
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The band decided to again reunite and tour, but Boy George declined to join them
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Century published Straight, his second autobiography, this time co-written with author Paul Gorman
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Boy George released Straight, the second volume of his autobiography
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Released ep “Straight”.
Released album “Taboo (Original Broadway cast)”.
Released album “Boy George’s Taboo: The Musical (Original London Cast)”.
Released album “Classic Masters”.
Released album “A Night in With Boy George: A Chillout Mix”.
Released album “A Night Out With Boy George: A DJ Mix”.
Released album “U Can Never B2 Straight”.
Released album “Something Old, Something New: A More Protein Compilation”.
Boy George released U Can Never B2 Straight, an "unplugged" collection of rare and lesser-known acoustic works
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Was voted 46th in a BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons
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In 2001, he published the Karma Cookbook, a macrobiotic cookbook co-written with Dragana Brown, whom Boy George met in 1986.
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Released album “Essential Mix”.
Released album “BoyGeorgeDj.com”.
Published the Karma Cookbook, a macrobiotic cookbook co-written with Dragana Brown, whom Boy George met in 1986
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Released album “Ministry of Sound: The Annual 1999–2000”.
Released album “Hit Collection”.
Released album “Greatest Moments: The Best Of Boy George & Culture Club”.
Released album “Galaxy Mix”.
Released album “The Unrecoupable One Man Bandit”.
Boy George collaborated on songs with dance-oriented acts
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Released album “Galaxy Weekend”.
Released album “The Annual IV”.
Released album “The Ibiza Annual”.
Released album “The Annual III”.
George was sued for malicious falsehood by singer Kirk Brandon
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Released album “Closet Classics, Volume 2”.
Released album “Very Best of Culture Club & Boy George”.
Released album “The Annual II”.
Released album “Everything I Own”.
Released album “The Annual”.
Released album “The House Collection, Volume 2”.
Released album “Cheapness and Beauty”.
Boy George's youngest brother Gerald, who has schizophrenia, was convicted of killing his wife in an episode of paranoia
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“He was a terrible father and a terrible husband.”
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Released album “At Worst… The Best of Boy George and Culture Club”.
Released ep “The Devil in Sister George”.
Boy George had a hit with the Pet Shop Boys-produced song "The Crying Game", from the soundtrack for the film The Crying Game
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Released album “Classics”.
Released album “The Martyr Mantras”.
Boy George formed his own record label, More Protein, and began recording under the name Jesus Loves You, writing under the pseudonym Angela Dust, a word play on angel dust
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Released album “Boyfriend”.
Released album “High Hat”.
Concurrently with developing his career as a DJ in the late 1990s, Boy George adopted a macrobiotic diet, which he had been attempting to follow since 1988.
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Released album “Tense Nervous Headache”.
Released album “Sold”.
And has 11 solo studio albums, five compilation albums and forty-eight singles
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Boy George released his first solo album, Sold, which garnered success in Europe
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Boy George was arrested for heroin possession as part of "Operation Culture"
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Keyboardist Michael Rudetsky, who co-wrote the song "Sexuality" on Culture Club's From Luxury to Heartache album, was found dead of a heroin overdose in Boy George's London home
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Boy George entered treatment and was prescribed narcotics to treat his addiction to heroin
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Culture Club released their fourth album, From Luxury to Heartache (UK No
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Boy George performed a guest-starring cameo role in an episode of the television series The A-Team titled "Cowboy George"
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Barbara Walters asked him about his sexual orientation, to which Boy George stated that he was bisexual and had various girlfriends and boyfriends in the past
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First enlisting Mikey Craig, then Jon Moss, then Roy Hay
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Born 1961-06-14.
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When his mother was 18; she moved to London with him to start a new life and escape the stigma of being an unmarried mother
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