Boy George (during Culture Club)

[iluvjeisa]

I know it's the wrong time of year for this beauty, but....



Clutching a toy at the recording of Don't they know it's Christmas...

 

[iluvjeisa]

At aspel, not sure of the year...

 

[iluvjeisa]

Honestly, I cannot get enough of his outfits and videos

 

[tigerrouge]

BBC2 have just shown Worried About The Boy, a 90 min drama covering "the years before his Top of the Pops debut in 1982" when he was "living in a squat, attending the Blitz Club, falling in and out of love". Douglas Booth plays Boy George - and even the Boy himself approves (bbc.co.uk - youtube.com/dailymirror)

 

[iluvjeisa]

Like BG said, the make-up is right but boy is the face wrong. I love Boy George's face, weak chin and all, wouldn't change a single thing.

 

[leyla m.]

PURE LOVE!!!
watching "worried about the boy" made me quite nostalgic and a little sad but his style is comparable to none!!!

 

[Eire]

I love Boy George! my scans

 

[iluvjeisa]

Truly gorgeous - thank you

 

[Eire]

Some more, my scans

 

[gius]

Great shots thank you


hmm the videos have been taken down.. Was it ever mentioned if he was the one who made all of his clothes /costumes?

 

[Eire]

Hmmm, well in the early days, he mostly got all his material for his outfits from thrift stores and the like. I know though later he worked with designers, a sort of collaboration. I remember reading he worked with Dexter Wong
More scans by me

 

[gius]

Thanks Eire

 

[Eire]

my scans


George with his pals Jemma and Marilyn.

 

[Eire]

more George, my scans

 

[jexxica]

so many great pics!!! thanks a lot!

 

[Eire]

My scans




Boy George by Snowdon

 

[tigerrouge]

Moving the December 1984 UK Cosmo into this thread... I never tire of seeing this cover (guardian.co.uk)

 

[tigerrouge]

From a recent interview (dailymail.co.uk

George couldn't wait to grow up; couldn't wait for a different life. 'I think the honest thing to say is I wanted to be liked,' he says. 'I knew from a very early age that I wasn't like other boys. I was called names, so I knew that, whatever " poofter" was wasn't a good thing, from about the age of six.

You hear that long before you have any idea what it is that's different about you. I think growing up, being made to feel like an outsider makes you defensive.'

Defensiveness, belligerence, call it what you will, the young Boy George had it in spades. 'When I first came out my parents didn't want to talk about it,' he says. 'So, for the next few years, I rubbed it in their faces. I'd sit in the front room and tease my hair into these gravity-defying shapes and put on loads of make-up.

'This,' he gestures to his face, 'is a mask, but then it attracts more attention, so it's a contradiction. In the early part of my career, I'd never have gone out in public without my make-up on. I wouldn't even open the hotel door unless I was in full drag.

When room service came to my room, I'd grab the food tray and shut the door. 'Now, I go out in my civvies all the time. I still like dressing up.

Sometimes I'll do a documentary and they'll say, "Can we do you without make-up?" and I'll say, "No, would Joan Collins let you do her without make-up?

"No, and neither will I. It's not that I think I'm unattractive without make-up, it's that this is my public persona. But I'm not a prisoner to my image like I used to be."
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[Eire]

my scans

 

[tigerrouge]

Boy George will feature in an upcoming Channel 4 show, "Where I Became Me", where stars return to the homes where they grew up – which have been redecorated as they would have been when the stars were teenagers – to relive their formative years. They will also be reunited with old friends and meet with historians. The programme is set to be screened in December 2010.