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Author Gill, Anton.

Title Mad about the boy : the life and times of Boy George and Culture Club / Anton Gill.

Publication Info. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  ML420.B757 G45 1984    Available  ---
Edition 1st American ed.
Description 128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Note "An Owl book."
Bibliography Discography: pages 126-127.
Contents Do you really want to hurt me : "I rode to fame on my voice" -- Recent highs : "they found me very traditional in Japan. very cultural" -- Black and white pop for child ears : "culture club is important to me, it's like a family" -- The boys in the band : "the thing about a band, four people, is that you have to kind of delegate ideas and you also have to make things available for other people." -- School, sex and style : "It's difficult for people to uderstand me. although I look odvious, there's much more to me that people see." -- Mad about the boy : "my personality is what sold me." -- Imitators : " I am a show-off, and that's that. that's how I see myself, and that's how I like to be seen. but it's not all down to the clothes I wear." -- The look : "everyone says that I will grow out of this some day, that I will look back in ten years from now and think how stupid I looked. the truth is the opposite." -- Talk about the boy : "people think I'm going to be some sort of idiot pouf who's going to be completely gormless." -- Culture club : "It's mutlicultural. I'm Jewish, George is Catholic and dresses up, Mikey is black and Roy is like a typical english boy." -- The fans : "I'm sure the girls weren't intending to tear us limb from limb- at least, I hope not!" -- Pass it on Africa : "I'm trying to open people's minds and make them more tolerant of things which aren't harmful." -- The BG and CC quiz -- Culture clubography.
Subject Boy George, 1961-
Boy George, 1961-
Culture Club (Musical group)
Culture Club (Musical group)
Rock musicians -- England -- Biography.
Rock musicians.
England.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 003003003X paperback $9.95