Boy George & Culture Club

His ascent to glory makes you dizzy. For nothing predestined Boy George, a former squatter in downtown London, to become one of the great icons of pop music. Yet this is what the former member of the band Culture Club has achieved.

Eccentric hat screwed on his head, make-up and black suit: Boy George's attire is as legendary as his music. That's how we love and recognise him. Because the man from Bexley, a gay effigy from the eighties, likes it when it shines. New wave diva, some would say, extravagant pop man, others would say. In the end, it doesn't matter which label you choose, because the showman transports us with his few hits, his goldsmith's voice and his softly rhythmic melodies. It filters between melancholy and joie de vivre, but above all it affirms a carefree attitude that does good.
 

It is thus the very essence of eccentricity. Finally, could we say that his music is the reflection of his colourful eyelids? Surely, and perhaps that's what saved him from his dangerous escapades of the nineties in the white powder snow that ruins a being in no time at all. So he seems stronger today than ever, and even more prodigious than when Culture Club was invading the dancefloors.
 

In short, you will have understood: Boy George is an exuberant and atypical character who doesn't like to put water in his wine. What he wants is simply to have fun like an eternal kid, daring the affront with the purists of the well licked pop. In his own way, he makes his way into the big British foursome, alongside David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robbie Williams. He tells the story of his life, his hopes, his tears, for however vulnerable he is, he will remain grandiose.