Il aurait pu être pire. Il aurait pu être la vie.
Mais sachant George, quand il se réveille à l'intérieur sordide de sa cellule, ce matin, le premier peut-être de 450 jours derrière les barreaux, je doute qu'il va se sentir reconnaissants envers le juge et le jury qui a mis là-bas.
Aching, épuisé, humilié au-delà des mots, il ne sera guère à la hâte railleries de ses codétenus. Je peux seulement imaginer son sifflet hits Do You Really Want To Hurt Me et Karma Chameleon par sneering lèvres. Il est bien conscient que ce sera pas de la bouillie de pique-nique. Depuis son arrestation en avril dernier, il aura pensé à rien d'autre.
Il pourrait lui-même l'acier contre la taquineries, mai et même trouver le courage de revenir tease.
Car il n'est pas un match de George waspish à son meilleur, et il est réputé pour donner aussi bien comme il est.
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Le chanteur et disc-jockey britannique Boy George a été condamné vendredi à 15 mois de prison ferme pour avoir séquestré un "escort boy" norvégien qui avait refusé d'avoir des relations sexuelles avec lui.
L'ancienne star de la pop s'est rendu coupable de "violences gratuites", a estimé le juge David Radford, du tribunal de Snaresbrook, dans l'est de Londres, en prononçant la sentence.
De son vrai nom George O'Dowd, 47 ans, Boy George était accusé d'avoir enchaîné le Norvégien Audun Carlsen, 29 ans, à un mur de son domicile londonien et de l'avoir frappé.
Le juge a stigmatisé un acte "prémédité", "impitoyable" et "dégradant" qui a "traumatisé" la victime. "On l'a privé de dignité", a ajouté le juge en parlant de l'escort boy.
Lors de son témoignage devant le tribunal, Audun Carlsen avait raconté sa visite le 28 avril 2007 au domicile de Boy George à Shoreditch, un quartier chic de l'est londonien, pour une séance de photos dénudées.
Il avait affirmé qu'à son arrivée, l'ancien chanteur de Culture Club, aidé d'un complice, l'avait menotté, attaché à un anneau scellé dans un mur de sa chambre, puis frappé à plusieurs reprises en le traitant de "pute".
L'"escort boy" avait ajouté que Boy George avait alors sorti une boîte contenant des chaînes métalliques, des objets sexuels et des lanières en cuir. Il était parvenu à s'enfuir, en sous-vêtements, en dévissant l'anneau du mur à l'aide des menottes.
Boy George, qui n'a pas témoigné, avait admis devant les policiers avoir menotté son invité qu'il avait rencontré sur un site internet, parce qu'il le soupçonnait d'avoir trafiqué son ordinateur. Mais il avait nié l'avoir frappé.
Carlsen avait estimé que cet épisode avait été provoqué par son refus d'avoir des relations sexuelles avec le chanteur, lors d'une précédente rencontre à l'appartement de celui-ci en janvier 2007.
La star, célèbre dans les années 80 pour des tubes comme "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" ("Veux-tu réellement me faire mal?"), a quitté Culture Club en 1987 pour mener une brève carrière en solo avant de se reconvertir en DJ et de lancer sa propre marque de vêtements, B-Rude.
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Boy George and the male escort he imprisoned were behaving like drug-crazed idiots during the infamous incident which led to the singer's conviction, his barrister admitted today.
Adrian Waterman said the star's continuing battle with cocaine addiction contributed to his actions in April last year.
He called for the musician whose real name is George O'Dowd to receive a suspended rather than custodial sentence at a hearing today.
Mr Waterman told Snaresbrook Crown Court, in East London: He's on the way up. The fact that he is, when sober, a kind and generous man means there is no shortage of people to help him through his recovery.
The barrister said O'Dowd would need time to pay £5,000 costs and added that many celebrities had written to the court in his defence.
At his trial, where O'Dowd was found guilty of false imprisonment, the court heard that he told police that he had chained Norwegian Audun Carlsen to his bed in his flat in Shoreditch, East London, in April 2007 while he investigated alleged tampering with his computer.
O'Dowd and Mr Carlsen first met through a social networking site primarily for gay and bisexual men and they parted on good terms, even though the former Culture Club frontman suspected Mr Carlsen had hacked into his computer. The singer paid the younger man £300 of the £400 they had agreed.
In the next few weeks, they exchanged e-mails in which the singer accused Mr Carlsen of breaking into his computer system but then said that he would be perfectly happy to see you naked asap. He referred to Mr Carlsen's heavenly butt and eventually they agreed to meet for a second time.
It was when Mr Carlsen returned to the flat that things took a violent turn. After calling Mr Carlsen into his bedroom, O'Dowd and another man leapt on him, wrestled him to the floor and started beating him.
The court heard that, during the attack, O'Dowd was screaming F****** whore! Now you're going to get what you deserve. He said he was dragged along the floor towards the bed and a manacle was put on his right hand and attached to a hook drilled in the wall.
The second man left, and O'Dowd produced a plastic box containing chains, sex toys and leather straps, Snaresbrook Crown court was told.
Mr Carlsen told the court he was then able to use the handcuffs as a tool to unscrew the hook from the wall. He ran to the door with O'Dowd pursuing him, lashing out with a metal chain. He managed to escape and ran out on to the street in just his underwear screaming for help.
O'Dowd told police: I asked him to come (back to my flat) because I wanted to find out if this guy had borrowed my stuff.
I got a friend there because I wanted to make sure he didn't leave so I could check the computer and his phone. The friend was just there in case he tried to stab me or take a hammer to me.
He denied to police that he punched or assaulted Mr Carlsen or swung a chain at him as the escort fled the flat, and suggested the bruises Mr Carlsen sustained could have been due to the fact that he was HIV positive.
Mr Carlsen told the court that O'Dowd concocted the story about computer tampering so he could punish him for not having sex during the first meeting. He said: I think he couldn't handle the refusal me not having sex with him.
The defence claimed that the dispute was over whether Mr Carlsen had stolen photographs and the suggestion it was because Mr Carlsen refused to have sex with O'Dowd on the previous occasion was entire fantasy or a lie.
O'Dowd, who swept the streets of New York in orange overalls in 2006 as his punishment for wasting police time after admitting to falsely reporting a burglary at his Manhattan apartment, looked grim-faced as the jury found him guilty of falsely imprisoning the male escort.
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SATURDAY 7th NOVEMBER '09 - LET ME IN @ HOME HOUSE, London, UK - Entry free but only by guestlist
Info @ www.letmeinclub.co.uk
SUNDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 09 - QUINTESSENTIALLY SOHO Benefit in Aid Of The Albert KENEDY Trust www.quintessentiallysoho.com
FRIDAY 13th NOVEMBER '09 - Club 107, Crawley, UK
Ingo @ www.the107club.co.uk
SATURDAY 14th NOVEMBER '09 - Godspeed @ Apocathery - London, UK
Info @ www.apothecarybar.co.uk

THURSDAY 19th NOVEMBER '09 - Beach Babylon Blanket, Shoreditch, London, UK - Fee £15 on the door - Info @ www.beachblanket.co.uk
BOY GEORGE & FAT TONY DJ EXCLUSIVE SET IN AID OF
www.mind.org.uk

FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER - CHICAGO ROCK - HOUSE SESSIONS PRESENTS BOY GEORGE - NORTHAMPTON - UK - http://www.chicago-rock-cafe.co.uk/northampton
SATURDAY 21st NOVEMBER - BEDUIN - LONDON UK - http://www.beduin-london.co.uk/
THURSDAY 26th NOVEMBER '09 - COVER TO COVER, Paradise Pub, London, UK - This is an Charity event to raise awareness for The Hepatitis C Campaign 'Get Tested'. Boy George is one of many artists who will be there. Info @ www.ents24.com
FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER - JUMPING JACKS - HOUSE SESSIONS PRESENTS BOY GEORGE - HALIFAX UK - http://www.jumpinjaks.com
SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER '09 - THE DOT COTTON CLUB -The Junction, Cambridge, UK
Info @ www.dotcottonclub.com
FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER - TIGER TIGER - PORTSMOUTH - UK - http://www.tigertiger-ports.co.uk/
Info @ www.thewhitehouselondon.co.uk
SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER '09 - DUSK - HEREFORD - UK - http://www.dusknightclub.com/
MONDAY 7th DECEMBER - CHICAGO ROCK - HOUSE SESSIONS PRESENTS BOY GEORGE - AYELSBURY -UK - http://www.chicago-rock-cafe.co.uk/events-and-tickets/aylesbury
WEDNESDAY 9th DECEMBER '09 - ROYAL ALBERT HALL, London, UK - Guest appereance at Rufus Wainwright family Christmas Concert.
Info & tickets @ www.anotsosilentnight.net
FRIDAY 11th DECEMBER - CLUB 107 - CRAWLEY- UK - http://www.the107club.co.uk/
SATURDAY 12th DECEMBER '09 - KOOLWATERS - Passion, Suderland, UK www.passionsuderland.com
FRIDAY 18th DECEMBER - GIBSONS with MARC VEDO - OSWESTRY - UK
SATURDAY 26th DECEMBER - GARLAND'S - LIVERPOOL - UK - http://www.garlandsnightclub.com/08/index.php
THURSDAY 31th DECEMBER - CREAM ARENA - CHESTER - UK & FLAMINGO'S - BLACKPOOL - http://www.flamingoonline.co.uk/
"Up close & personal "
at Leicester Square Theatre
20,21,22,23,27,28,29,30 December 2009.
Boy George needs little introduction…he shot to international stardom in the 80’s as the front man of one of the UK’s biggest exports Culture Club and has remained one of the world’s most recognisable iconic figures…however George himself says…’I am sometimes recognised for all the wrong reasons’. In advance of his 2010 European Tour George will perform a set of exclusive intimate shows at Leicester Square Theatre…stripped down, acoustic, unplugged whatever cliché you want to call it this set of exclusive concerts lies bare George as an artist, singer, lyricist and musician – this is simply ‘The Man and his Music’… performing his biggest hits from Culture Club, his solo career, new writing and covers from his own music heroes. DON’T MISS ONE OF THE BEST SOUL VOICES AND MOST COLOURFUL PERSONALITIES BRITIAN AS EVER PRODUCED!
£35.00-£45.00

BRAND NEW AMERICAN HEART (BLISS feat BOY GEORGE)
Boy George avec CULTURE CLUB COLD SHOULDER live tv 2000
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