Boy George

A Bowie Celebration review – a starry tribute concert for a mind-blowing talent

Five years on from David Bowie’s death, bandmate Mike Garson leads an epic lineup, from Billy Corgan to Adam Lambert, in three hours of livestreamed sound and vision

Dave Simpson

10, Jan, 2021 @2:53 PM

Who deserves a personalised Christmas message from Snoop Dogg? | Nosheen Iqbal

Celebrity message sites are booming and they make for fascinating, but rather depressing browsing

Nosheen Iqbal

06, Dec, 2020 @7:30 AM

Sweet Dreams by Dylan Jones review – the story of the New Romantics

From Elizabethans to Hollywood vamps, Duran Duran to Spandau Ballet … how a teenage style cult became a 1980s pop phenomenon that speaks to today

Alexis Petridis

23, Sep, 2020 @6:30 AM

About a boy: Boy George biopic in the works

Sacha Gervasi, the director of Hitchcock and Anvil!, is attached to write and direct a film about the life of the Culture Club frontman

Catherine Shoard

30, May, 2019 @3:50 PM

Judy Blame remembered by Boy George

The Culture Club frontman recalls the irreverent creative who helped to style many bands in the 80s

Boy George

16, Dec, 2018 @8:00 AM

Boy George & Culture Club review – callow colossus returns as a burnished catwalk ragamuffin

Pop’s gender-blurring 80s idol is still an extraordinary act – conjuring hip-swinging choruses, gospel benediction and jazzy fluidity for a roaring crowd

Caroline Sullivan

14, Nov, 2018 @11:24 AM

Back in bloom: how queer male pop reclaimed its star status

The 80s put the gay man front and centre of pop. Then came the Aids crisis – and three decades of demonisation, discord and displacement. Now, with Troye Sivan leading a new wave of gay stars, has change truly arrived?

Brian O'Flynn

31, Oct, 2018 @12:36 PM

This boy’s life – the fabulous return of Boy George

His outrageous fashion and controversial behaviour have been making headlines for decades. Now he’s making music again. By Tim Lewis

Tim Lewis

28, Oct, 2018 @8:00 AM

Cod complex: why Boy George is one of ‘inauthentic’ reggae’s all-time greats

With a new Culture Club album out, is it time to reappraise music’s most chastised genre?

Gavin Haynes

26, Oct, 2018 @12:00 PM

Sex, sin and sausages: the debauched brilliance of Leigh Bowery

His shocking shows – featuring births, enemas and vomiting – thrilled and appalled. Two decades after his death, why is the influence of this 80s nightclub legend still so pervasive?

Lauren Cochrane

13, Aug, 2018 @5:00 AM