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April 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Boy George: This Is What I Dub, Vol. 1

Boy George This Is What I Dub, Vol. 1 BGP Records If Lou Reed and Keith Richards were the two at the top of the list of rock stars most likely to not survive the 1970s then in the late 1990s and across the 00s it was the two Georges:  Georgios Panayiotou (aka George Michael) […]
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October 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 609

Culture Club, Kissing To Be Clever (1982) We were talking about Culture Club the other day – how in the early/mid 80s they were such a big deal. My folks went on a trip to Japan and they came back with news of Boy George and his band being everywhere over there. And I can’t […]
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September 26, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Culture Club: Two NZ Shows (Dec, 2016)

Boy George and Culture Club will perform for the first time in New Zealand, two shows, playing Christchurch’s Horncastle Arena on Friday 2nd and Auckland’s Vector Arena on Sunday 4th December 2016. The 80s pop hits Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Church of the Poison Mind, The War Song and many […]
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September 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: #10 Anthony Loyd

“War” opined Boy George, “is stupid. And people”, he went on to say, “are stupid”. It was the early 1980s and there was a naivety in those lyrics that made them seem almost cute, particularly with the Day-Glo pop beat in the background. Sometimes the simplest, most obvious statements have a resonance – and for […]
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April 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Boy George: This Is What I Do

Boy George This Is What I Do Very Me Records It’s nice to hear this record – nice: because it is good, it is very much a return to form, and that doesn’t mean it’s as good as back in the day, back when George was showing off that beaut white soul-singer voice with the […]
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