Artist: Boy George
Genre(s):
Rock
Pop
Other
Dance
Discography:
Cheapness And Beauty
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
At Worst... The Best Of Boy George
Year: 1993
Tracks: 19
The Martyr Mantras
Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
High Hat
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Tense Nervous Headache
Year: 1988
Tracks: 12
Sold
Year: 1987
Tracks: 11
Box Set
Year:
Tracks: 31
British vocalizer Boy George combined a strong, soulful singing voice with a provocative sense of style, both of which were showtime brought to the attention of English and American audiences in the group Culture Club, for whom he served as lead vocalizer from 1982 to 1986. The group wrote and played faultless pop medicine, and Boy George's androgynous persona -- heavy makeup and usurious costumes -- gave the grouping a distinguishable picture image in the dawn of MTV. That identical disparateness, still, made the chemical group date promptly, and at the same clock time Boy George encountered highly publicized personal difficulties. He re-emerged as a solo vocalizer in 1987 with Sold, which contained a U.K. issue one cover of Bread's "Everything I Own," just was unable to double this success in the U.S. Boy George enjoyed four-spot British singles' chart entries in 1987 and another ternion in 1988. His endorsement album, Strain Nervous Headache (1988), was not picked up for release in the U.S.; his third, Swain (1989), was a Europe-only spill, though Virgin Records cobbled the endorsement and third albums together to introduce a second U.S. album, Highschool Hat (1989). In 1991 came The Martyr Mantras, another jumble album largely made up of antecedently non-LP dance singles. In the U.K., it was credited to a new group, Jesus Loves You, and released on Boy George's own More Protein phonograph record mark, though Virgin in the U.S. billed it as a Boy George album. By 1992, Boy George had faded at home, and in the U.S. his solo career had never interpreted off. Then he was brought in to sing a rendering of the '60s chestnut "The Crying Game" in a production by the Pet Shop Boys, as the title birdsong for a picture that became the sleeper hit of the wintertime of 1992-1993, resulting in his first-class honours degree real U.S. hit as a solo artist. Cheapness and Beauty followed in 1995, and four-spot eld later Boy George resurfaced with the rarities collection Unrecoupable One Man Bandit. Throughout the '90s, he delved back into the club setting that birthed his early romantic Movement, and made a name for himself as DJ in demand. It became more than a hobby toward the end of the millennium, and Boy George garnered attention in the U.K. and U.S. golf club circuits; such musical creativity was captured on Essential Mix, released in fall 2000.
