Culture Club singer Boy George has revealed that he’s spent his time in quarantine hammering away at new music, of which none of us asked for.
In recent appearance on the Grounded With Louis Theroux podcast, the George revealed he’s written “six or seven albums” worth of new music while in lockdown.
“I’ve written so much music I’ve got enough for six or seven albums,” he shared, before emphasising that it might not all be quality material.
“I’m not saying every single thing is good, but I signed a deal just before Christmas with a company called Primary Wave, whose job it is to go out and place your music in movies,” George explained. “I own copyright with them. It’s a new experience for me to own music.”
In case the name Boy George only invokes memories of saccharine ’80s pop hits like ‘Karma Chameleon’, I’m here to offer the sordid reminder that in 2009 he was convicted for falsely imprisoning a male sex worker and, as reported by The Guardian, “handcuffing him to a wall, and beating him with a metal chain”.
He received 15 months in jail for the crime, with Judge David Radford telling the disgraced singer that his “premeditated, callous and humiliating” act left his victim “shocked, degraded and traumatised,” and even “deprived of his liberty and his human dignity”.
Of course, the consequence of George’s abhorrent actions did not do much to tarnish his career. The past few years saw George secure a lucrative mentoring role on The Voice, with the incident mostly swept under the rug.
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“He shouldn’t be allowed to be a mentor, they should axe him,” victim Audun Carlsen, shared in an interview with NME “He is a criminal who has been to prison.”
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