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BOY GEORGE WRITES SONGS FOR MINOGUE | 02 mars 2007

BOY GEORGE has written a song for Australian KYLIE MINOGUE about her relationship with ex-boyfriend OLIVIER MARTINEZ. The former CULTURE CLUB singer, who is in Australia for the Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, has penned two new songs for the star. He tells Sydney's Daily Telegraph, "I don't know that she will do the one about her and Olivier because I wrote it before they split - about all the stuff written about them in the papers. "There is another one about survival, about what she has gone through, and she has vocaled (sic) that." The SPINNING AROUND star successfully battled breast cancer and recently split from Martinez after four years together.

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Boy George at the Channel 10 studios in South Yarra, Australia | 01 mars 2007

Boy George at the Channel 10 studios before flying to Sydney's Mardi Gras Boy George at the Channel 10 studios in South Yarra, Australia - 28 Feb 2007

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Metro Nightclub - FRIDAY 2 MARCH 2007 | 01 mars 2007

One of the world's biggest gay icons is coming to Melbourne! Boy George, the former lead singer of the Culture Club and now internationally recognised as one of the leading DJs in the world, is packing his record bag and hitting The Metro exclusively for

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STRAIGHT PAPERBACK BOOK RELEASED 1 MARCH 2007 | 01 mars 2007

Product details

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Arrow (1 Mar 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099464934
ISBN-13: 978-0099464938
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 7.8 inches

Other Editions: Hardcover | All Editions

Synopsis
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.

From the Publisher
The bestselling autobiography of one of the UK's most flamboyant and charismatic stars. Guaranteed to shock, amuse and tantalise.

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Boy George releasing new album | 01 mars 2007

Boy George is trying to put his Culture Club days well behind him as he prepares to release his first album in more than three years.

The 1980s pop sensation turned disc jockey is in Australia to perform a series of DJ sets in Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne.

He will also play at an exclusive VIP after-party following Sydney's annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on Saturday.

The English artist born George O'Dowd hopes to launch a new album in Britain in August, but admits some still can't see past the Culture Club period which cemented his celebrity status.

"All artists are always struggling to get past that pivotal period in your career, where no-one else can seem to get past it but you," O'Dowd says.

"I am past it ... it's over. For other people it looked like my magic moment, but for me it's just primitive. It's kind of like cave men drawings and just has no relevance to what I do now."

O'Dowd, who left Culture Club in 1986, doesn't miss his days with the band.

"You are spending time with each other when you don't really want to, know everyone's habits and boring personalities. It really was like being at home at Christmas, but all the time."

O'Dowd, 45, is also keen to shed the controversy over his sexuality and drug-taking that has dogged him since his rise to fame as Culture Club's lead singer in the 1980s.

O'Dowd was last year fined and forced on garbage duty in New York as part of community service ordered for falsely claiming a break-in at his Manhattan apartment. The charge followed his arrest in 2005 on suspicion of possessing cocaine.

O'Dowd, famous for the Culture Club hits Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? and Karma Chameleon, says the attention can be annoying.

"What I do is pretty private ... as far as the press is concerned they only write about me when something awful happens, like if I lose my records or my hair falls out," he said.

"When you are having hits everyone loves you, when you aren't ... well it's never George is great."

O'Dowd hopes to show he hasn't lost his musical flair with a new album.

"I am going to be working with an old reggae producer called Dennis Bovell, if he can find the time for me," he said.

O'Dowd is back in Australia for the first time in eight years and is looking forward to Sydney's Mardi Gras.

"I will be looking for heterosexual men, but only if you are looking good ... but I won't be in the parade, I have nothing to show off," he said, laughing.

"I am enjoying playing over here, Australians enjoy clubbing. In America lots of people just stare and they aren't into the music. I am having a great time."