You would think, after the best part of 40 years together, that the four members of Culture Club would know everything there is to know about each other, but it seems not. The band that took the freakier aspects of club culture and put them on Top of the Pops, that captured an emerging open-mindedness at the beginning of the 1980s and made a household name of Boy George as one of the original gender-fluid pop stars, came together at Erin Pizzey’s house in Hammersmith, west London. Pizzey was famous for setting up the first refuge for battered wives and was also a friend of my parents. I remember being fascinated by this unconventional, kaftan-clad figure. Not least because Pizzey’s daughter Cleo was only
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Boy George: ‘I’m not a downsizing type of person. Bigger hats, bigger houses’
The singer talks about fame, his love life and friendships turning sour, as Culture Club stream their Albert Hall gig
“I’ve never been able to pull off a day look,” the singer says. “I’m either Boy George or I look like a tramp”
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