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  Boy George Dodges Jail Time - The Deadbolt
Also under the deal, Boy George was ordered to pay a fine of $1000 but it appears the Culture Club singer has not kept up with his end of the bargain, which prompted the warrant and angered Judge Anthony Ferrara.
Boy George became a pop icon back in the 1980s with the band Culture Club, which produced such memorable hits as Do You Really Want to Hurt me, Karma Chameleon, It's a Miracle, Church of the Poisoned Mind, and Time.
Boy George also went on the have later success as a club DJ in Europe, but it was his earlier struggles with drugs that led to the demise of the Culture Club.
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  Boy George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Alan O'Dowd, better known as Boy George, (born June 14, 1961, in London, England) is an English singer-songwriter who gained fame with his group Culture Club during the 1980s.
Boy George's androgynous style caught the attention of music executive Malcolm McLaren, of Sex Pistols fame, who arranged for George to perform with the group Bow Wow Wow, featuring Annabella Lwin, at various shows.
George wrote of his relationship with Kirk Brandon, the singer with Spear of Destiny and the earlier Theatre of Hate, prompting Brandon to begin a High Court action against George.
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 Boy_George
George Alan O'Dowd (born June 14, 1961, in Bexley, Kent), better known as Boy George, is a British singer, musician, and disc jockey who gained a large degree of fame with his group Culture Club in the 1980s.
When George said he was bisexual in the mid 1980s, his sexual lifestyle became the target of widespread tabloid newspaper speculation, and eventually he stated he was simply gay.
George's brother went on UK national television and blew the whistle on him, in a desperate attempt to get him to leave the world of drugs after George had recently collapsed on stage at a benefit concert.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/boy_george.html   (1371 words)

  
 Boy George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Boy George readily acknowledges his role as a beacon of individuality, especially during the conservative Reagan-Thatcher era, when being different for most kids meant growing a rat's tail or wearing parachute pants.
Boy George, of course, is really George O'Dowd, born in 1961 to working-class parents in a London suburb.
George says he sees the new, scared faces in the crowd as a sign of progress, but he adds that the gay rights movement is still a long way from penetrating the masses.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/1in10/98/09/BOY_GEORGE.html   (1880 words)

  
 Boy George Sweeps Away Community Service - The Deadbolt
Boy George's court-ordered community service came after an incident in October, when he reported a burglary at his Manhattan apartment and police found drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Boy George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was given a $1000 fine and was sentenced to community service, though he avoided doing the service set down by the judge.
Boy George's manager, Jeremy Pearce, was quoted by the BBC as confessing "It was hard work but he seemed to almost enjoy it.
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 Boy George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Now Boy George performs with his band as a hobby and has switched his focus from Culture Club to club culture.
George O'Dowd, who's known to the world as Boy George, has released almost a dozen club albums in Europe and is now hitting the States with his first US release Essential Mix.
It's great to see Boy George has gained a reputation as a respected DJ and producer after years of struggling with a heroine addiction and depression.
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 Rock On The Net: Culture Club
Boy George had a close call in London when a large disco ball fell and grazed George before a performance.
Boy George was nominated for a Gay/Lesbian American Music Award for Dance Music Artist of the Year.
Boy George was arrested in New York on drug charges.
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 Boy George - Uncyclopedia
Boy George was president of the national cheese federation of Belgium for 27 years, he also served 4 years in prison for smuggling 4 tonnes of illegal marshmallows through the borders of Slough, this also caused the "Secret" Black plague of 1993.
Boy George is famed for his mascochistic nature.
George completely denies these claims, and says that he "really thought that Elton John was a woman" when he spent that night in the hotel with him.
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 Boy George's Taboo musical on stage in London's West End theatre - ticket buying and theater guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Boy George's new musical Taboo brings to life a decadent decade; a vibrant era of colourful dreams, dazzling fashion, and the beginning of pop culture, as we know it today.
Boy George, using his own rise and fall as a pop icon of the Eighties, has written an enjoyable new musical - with This Life writer Mark Davies - that is also surprisingly conventional...
George, impersonated with uncanny accuracy by Euan Morton, is one of the exotic club crowd including Philip Sallon (Paul Baker), the floppy-haired Marilyn (Mark McGee) and Steve Strange (Drew Jaymson).
www.albemarle-london.com /taboo.html   (2581 words)

  
 Boy George - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: British singer Boy George combined a strong, soulful singing voice with a provocative sense of fashion, both of which were first brought to the attention of English and American audiences in the group Culture Club, for whom he served as lead singer from 1982 to 1986.
By 1992, Boy George had faded at home, and in the U.S. his solo career had never taken off.
It became more than a hobby toward the end of the millennium, and Boy George garnered attention in the U.K. and U.S. club circuits; such musical creativity was captured on Essential Mix, released in fall 2000.
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 Boy George Pays Up - Feb 26, 2004 - E! Online News
In the article, Boy George placed the blame for the nightclub incident on Thompson, claiming that the secretary had provoked him by insulting him and deserved to be punched hard.
A month later, Boy George repeated his accusations in London's Sunday Express, once again insinuating that Thompson was at fault for the nightclub brawl.
Ban Mawson, legal counsel for Boy George, told the judge that his client would not be making any more accusatory statements about Thompson--at least not in print.
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 Boy George Wanted...in Custody - Jun 16, 2006 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, pleaded guilty to falsely reporting a burglary in March to avoid jail time he could have incurred after being booked on suspicion of possessing drugs in October 2005.
He was arrested after police, responding to a 911 call from George saying he'd been robbed, found cocaine in the musician's Little Italy apartment.
George's attorney, Louis Freeman, said that his client hoped to do more for the community than sweeping streets and sidewalks.
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 Boy George
Boy George once hinted only to his bisexuality and responded to a reporter's question about his sexuality by famously saying, "I'd rather have a cup of tea." In the early 1990s he came out as gay, and revealed he had had a steady boyfriend for many years.
Then in 1997 George won a court case against a male ex-lover who was suing him for "libel" for publishing details of their gay affairs in his autobiography.
The following hagiography neatly captures Boy George's expression of his Venus-Neptune opposition: "At the height of his fame, before the crushing blows of pop superstardom failure and drug addiction tabloid infamy, Boy George was the very embodiment of fantasy escapism.
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 Amazon.ca: High Hat: Music: Boy George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Of course, George had not fully recovered from his drug problems when this was recorded; he had stopped using heroin, but cocaine and prescription drugs were big on his list.
But unlike George's first solo album, Sold, his drug use is not quite as apparent on this recording.
The Jamaican vibe is another style that George is no stranger to; see also Everything I Own and Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. Don't Cry, perhaps the best song on the album and yet another single, lacks the ambitiously excessful sound of some of the other tracks.
www.amazon.ca /High-Hat-Boy-George/dp/B00000DR5N   (646 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Boy George Reports for NYC Trash Duty - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment
The singer, born George O'Dowd, was ordered to spend five days working for the Department of Sanitation after pleading guilty in March to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment.
Boy George's manager, Jeremy Pearce, told reporters shortly after the singer arrived for his first day on the job:"He doesn't show any kind of emotion about these things.
Boy George appeared to be in good spirits during a late-morning break, waving to reporters on the other side of a chain-link fence and yelling,"How are you?"before returning to work.
www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Aug14/0,4670,BoyGeorge,00.html   (479 words)

  
 Boy George's ex-bandmates slam singer - Boston.com
Boy George was not impressed, telling an audience at a music awards ceremony that he thought the new singer was "dreadful."
He and George were lovers at the height of the band's success, though the relationship was not made public at the time.
They say George's griping is spoiling the legacy of a band whose pan-sexual, multiracial makeup helped transform social attitudes in the 1980s.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/11/02/boy_georges_ex_bandmates_slam_singer?mode=PF   (695 words)

  
 Boy George's ex-bandmates slam singer - Boston.com
Boy George with his Q Classic Song award at the Q Awards 2006, at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, Monday, Oct. 30, 2006.
Two of the band's founding members told The Associated Press on Thursday that they're furious with Boy George, who recently accepted a songwriting award without telling them, labeled their new vocalist "dreadful" and, they claim, made their lives a misery.
In his autobiography "Take It Like a Man," Boy George said many Culture Club lyrics were about his feelings for Moss and claimed the band's breakup was driven by the collapse of their relationship.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/11/02/boy_georges_ex_bandmates_slam_singer?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News   (714 words)

  
 Boy George, index.php - Defamer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Boy George's most notable achievement of late was his ill-advised move of calling the NYPD to his Manhattan apartment for a burglary, upon which he was immediately arrested for having 13 bags of blow sitting around in the open.
George was offered a plea bargain that would only charge him with false robbery; he was then required to do five days of community service.
Boy George has finally freed himself from the clutches of the Dark Side.
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 CNN.com - Boy George snarls at media during trash duty - Aug 14, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
George O'Dowd, better known as Boy George, is mobbed Monday by photographers.
The singer, born George O'Dowd, was ordered to spend five days working for the Department of Sanitation after pleading guilty in March to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment.
Boy George's manager, Jeremy Pearce, told reporters shortly after the singer arrived for his first day on the job: "He doesn't show any kind of emotion about these things.
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 I'll tumble for ya, Boy George! - August 31, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I MISSED Boy George's NBC Tent gig the other week so when I got the invite from sassy sisters Mimi and Juliet Tan to have dinner with him (or her), I grabbed the chance to catch up with the boy I grew up with.
While the whole table consisting of industry insiders were starstruck with Boy George's presence, we learned that Mark Vedo, the British DJ (who became the instant crush of many peeps that night) hadn't even known who Boy George was until they worked together.
Boy George told me about his New York show which debuted the same time as NY Fashion week and invited me to his show this September.
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 Boy George
"George Alan O'Dowd" (born June 14, 1961), better known as "Boy George", is a famous gay singer, musician, and DJ who gained a degree of fame with his group Culture Club in the 1980s.
George, the son of a builder (Jeremiah) and his wife (Dinah), was born in Eltham, London, England.
George's witnesses testified that Brandon and he had conducted what was called "a brief, passionate and turbulent physical homosexual affair" in the months between 1980-81.
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 Boy George aims barbs at celebrities - Gossip: The Scoop - MSNBC.com
Boy George pulls no punches in his memoir.
Boy George is aiming his barbs at unlikely targets.
Boy George accuses O’Donnell of being domineering, toning down “Taboo” too much, and of not being gay enough.
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 CBC.ca Arts - Boy George arrested in New York on drug charges
Pop star Boy George was arrested in New York Friday for suspicion of possessing cocaine after he called police to report a burglary at his Manhattan apartment, police said.
Boy George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, and who made his name with the 1980s pop band Culture Club, called police early Friday morning to report a burglary.
Boy George was known for his androgynous style in a decade which celebrated androgyny.
www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/10/07/boy_george20051008.html   (1409 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | | Boy George
In between bitching about Madonna and swiping at Will Young - a "common or garden homosexual" - Boy George recently revealed he has "always been drawn to things that are quite homophobic, like reggae and ragga".
George has always worn his heart on his outlandish sleeve.
Considering this is his first gig since Culture Club's brief reunion in 1998 and first solo show for 12 years, forbearance is the key to being a Boy George fan.
arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,,1794308,00.html   (378 words)

  
 Boy George Photos - Boy George News - Boy George Information
George Alan O'Dowd, aka Boy George, is a popular gender-bending musican from the 80s, born June 14th 1961, in Bexley, Kent.
George is most well-known for his work in the band Culture Club, but is currently a DJ.
Boy George: (revealing he has written two songs for Kylie Minogue - one about Olivier Martinez) I don't know that she will do the one about her and Olivier because I wrote it before they split up, about all the stuff written about them in the papers.
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 Boy George An Awesome Talent
Boy George is a world famous pop icon who emerged on the scene in the 80's with his group Culture Club.
You'll find galleries of George's past and current looks, biography, discography, articles from around the world and personal essays.
There will be a new cover photo at the start of every month.
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