From his days as a club face alongside Philip Sallon,
Marilyn and Steve Strange, through the years of global
pop superstardom with Culture Club, his rebirth as a
world-class DJ, as a leading light of musical theatre
with the award-winning Taboo, a cutting edge
photographer and a confrontational and acclaimed fashion
designer, one of the many things you can say about
George is: he's never stood still. It's been one hell of
a trip. A decade and a half ago, George was coming to
terms with the fall-out from serious drug addiction, the
failure of his relationship with Jon Moss and the
collapse of Culture Club. For lesser men this would have
been the end but for George it became the start of a
period of remarkable reinvention. Told with George's
trademark biting wit, brutal honesty and sparkling
insight, this book reveals the whole story, reappraising
his rise to stardom and all the madness that followed.
He talks about his solo singing career, his initiation
into the dance music scene, and his role as the driving
force behind theatrical sensation Taboo. George also
discusses the achievement of the apparently impossible
task of reuniting the famously fractious Culture Club.It
is only now, many years on from the glittering, glossy
Eighties, that George makes an insightful and often
hilarious assessment of the impact of that extraordinary
era. |
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