What is Boy George's real name?
Q: What is Boy George's real name?
A: His real name is George Alan O'Dowd.
Q: Where did Boy George grow up?
A: He grew up in a large, working-class Irish family in Bexley, Kent. The family originally came from Thurles, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
Q: What was the British new romantic movement popularised in the early 1980s?
A: The British new romantic movement was a style of music and fashion that emerged in the late 1970s and was popularised in the early 1980s. It was based on the coolness of David Bowie and high fashion, with influences from Kraftwerk, Marc Bolan and post punk New Wave music.
Q: What type of music did Boy George make with Culture Club during the 1980s?
A: With Culture Club during the 1980s, Boy George made what is often called blue-eyed soul music which was heavily influenced by Rhythm & Blues and reggae. Early recordings with Culture Club showed that O'Dowd's vocals had an emotional quality which was like American soul music of the 1960s and 1970s. His later solo work has also touched on glam rock influences and was particularly influenced by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.
Q: When did Boy George get released from prison?
A: On 11 May 2009, Boy George was released from prison at HMP Edmunds Hill in Newmarket, Suffolk after serving four months into a fifteen-month sentence for assault and false imprisonment of a male escort at his East London flat. He was tagged and placed on a curfew for the rest of his sentence.
Q: Did Culture Club have any tours or concerts to celebrate their 30th anniversary reunion tour?
A: Yes they did! In 2011 they played two live concerts - one in Dubai and one in Sydney - but didn't have an official tour until 2018 when they released an album called Life accompanied by their Life Tour concert series around Europe as well as some dates across North America too!
Q: How many autobiographies has Boy George written so far?
A: So far he has written two autobiographies; Take It Like A Man (1995) co-written with Spencer Bright which became a bestseller in UK; Straight (2005) co-written with Paul Gorman
