Creem Profiles
BOY GEORGE
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
HOME: Suffragette City.
AGE: Not quite a man.
PROFESSION: Kissing to be clever.
HOBBIES: Giggling with delight, love twisting with Captain Crucial, turning the clock of the heart, listening to old Smokey Robinson discs, letting people make him cry.
LAST BOOK READ: How To Make Love To A Woman by Michael Morgenstern.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Kidding J. Kordosh “rather cruelly.”
QUOTE: “In a country that spawned Liberace, I’m hardly a revolutionary.”
PROFILE: After a brief career as a model and singer with Bow Wow Wow, George O’Dowd became the Boy, merging a little reggae, a little soul, a little pop, and going to the top of the American and British charts with Culture Club, a concept that takes the Barbarians’ old rock chant to its ’80s’ extreme: “Are you a boy or...”
BEER: Boy Howdy! (Boys of a feather flock together!)