Boy George's 60 Years - Lifestyle

Boy George

turns 60: Former leader of

, George Alan O'Dowd, was born in the UK on June 14, 1961. Pop icon of the 80s, success thanks to songs like 

and

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For several years his main activity has been to be a

. For the big business of gossip he remains a protagonist and a prey: on the other hand, his story as a new romantic icon in a gay version of the 80s and 90s plunged into a vortex of drugs, sex scandals, arrests, inevitable periods of detoxification. and reliance on social services (with inevitable photos in orange overalls, pappagorgia and broom) is a boon for those who live by telling the troubles of stars or former stars.

remains the gay doll of Culture Club, the English pop band that, with a very catchy music and tinged with harmless soul and reggae veins, depopulated the world between the 80s and 90s, the period in which, thanks to the explosion of video music, sexual ambiguity was a kind of forced code. But while the homosexuality exhibited by his character was the decisive element of the group's success, in his private life he was forced to hide his connection with the drummer of the Culture Club, Jon Moss: so while with '' Do You Really Want To Hurt Me '', '' Karma Chamaleon '', '' It's a Miracle '' made the world dance, lived a personal drama that helped to blow up the relationships between the members of the band until the dissolution.

  Then with an inexorable progression, the situation began to get out of hand: heroin addiction, arrests (even one for reporting a false home theft as a result of which the police found cocaine in his home ), the death from an overdose of a friend at home, the arrest for the kidnapping of an escort boy kept handcuffed in his apartment have turned him into a `` case '', starting him towards the career of the former star.

  Actually, apart from the DJ, he did something else: for example he wrote the autobiographical musical

which remained on stage for two years in London (in New York only one hundred reruns), he has made recordings of electronic music and successful dance anthologies.