80's music legend Boy George has reunited with his band Culture Club (where they will perform their first two albums Kissing To Be Clever and Color By Numbers, in full), later this year.
In the meantime, the singer recently sat down with Sky News and spilled tea on his complex relationship with fame, his upcoming biopic, and his fame collection artwork featuring fellow pop music contemporaries Prince, David Bowie and Madonna.
Speaking of which, Boy George even opened up about his rocky relationship with the Queen of Pop.
via: Sky News
They first met after he saw her in concert in New York, with fellow '80s star Marilyn and two friends. They went backstage and he asked for a picture.
'There's never been warmth... on either side'
"She grabbed the boys and just sat them on her lap, which is kind of major," he says. "She took control immediately. And I've got this great picture of Madonna and this guy that I kind of lost contact with."
But he and the Queen of Pop never became friends. "Over the years we sort of met each other, but there's never been any kind of warmth necessarily on either side," he says. "But I am a fan... with me, if I like the music, I don't necessarily have to be best friends with the person... I can like things without being petty."
It was perhaps part and parcel of fame in the 1980s, he says.
"When you're young, everything's a competition. As you get older, you get a bit more confident about who you are and more secure and therefore you're able to enjoy things without feeling threatened. So I think in the '80s, all of us were in competition with each other... nowadays I'm kind of able to enjoy a lot of bands that I hissed at in the past, you know."
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