Boy George: Last News

This Is What I Do, should rightly have reawakened interest in him as a songwriter.For anyone too young to remember, when Culture Club exploded in the early 1980s, George was huge. When the band disintegrated, things turned sour quickly. Not only was the singer dealing with a heroin addiction, but we now know that he and the band’s drummer, Jon Moss, were at the end of a volatile on-off love affair.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.George’s solo career got off to a great start in his home country, the UK, with the 1987 number one single, “Everything I Own.” Originally by Bread, George’s take owed more to the Ken Boothe reggae version from 1974.