Boy George
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Boy George and Culture Club : deserve better than Alison Ellwood ‘s disapointing tabloid documentary
Ever since the singer/songwriter Boy George burst into the world, he has been a polarizing figure that people seem to either love or hate. Or both. His larger-than-life colorful persona has always made him fodder for the British tabloid press, which is central to yet another documentary. It’s a trap that filmmaker Alison Ellwood falls…
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After 20 years BOY GEORGE is back on Broadway : and this time the Show is an unqualified Hit
Boy George is back on Broadway after 20 years since his (less than successful) debut. Back then he was starring as Leigh Bowery in Taboo the partly imagined story that he had written of a group of club ‘names’ set in the location of what was London’s most fashionable nightclub. The club had…
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Is Boy George about to revive TABOO?
If you were wandering past the legendary London Palladium last night you must have been wondering what all the extravagantly dressed crowds were doing there. They were clamoring to get inside to see the original cast members of Boy George’s TABOO reunite for just two nights. It’s all part of a campaign to bring…
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BLITZED : The 80’s Blitz Kids Story & how they defined a whole generation
This rather wonderful new documentary by Bruce Ashley and Michael Donald is the remarkable story of how in the 1980’s a very small group of young people in a mere 18 months redefined a whole generation, the effects of which can still be felt today. It is a very quintessentially English story set against…
