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Karma: My Autobiography

January 4, 2024
Extremely disappointed in this book. I didn't enjoy the read and don't feel i have any further insight into the author than i did before i started it. I'd never really paid much attention to culture club or boy george musically (apart from the commercial hits that are always played on the radio e.g. karma chameleon), however i've always felt boy george was a fascinating person who has lived an incredible life, therefore would have an amazing story to tell in his book. The bad thing is, he doesn't tell that story in the book.

The book is not cohesive and seems to read like the author is just stating every random thought and memory in his head. He gives no timeframes or dates to reference anything, and only ever stays surface level with little to no detail given other than, this happened, that happened. Its like george is giving a quick run down of everything he can remember before he forgets it. It might as well have been bullet points. It is clear that george is currently at a place in his life where he does not want people to remember the

Karma: My Autobiography

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THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS

'I went to a lot of trouble to create Boy George and then I went through a whole battle for years about not wanting to be him. But now I enjoy and embrace it in a way that I wasn't able to as a young person.... I'm finally learning to be George Alan O'Dowd from Eltham.'


Karma is the definitive autobiography from the incomparable Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of Culture Club and LGBTQ+ vanguard: Boy George. Told in his inimitable style, Karma tells the story of the charismatic frontman - the drama, the music, his journey of addiction and recovery, surviving prison, meeting legends like David Bowie, Prince and Madonna, and the highs and lows of a life lived in the spotlight and in the headlines.


This is the explosive and searingly honest account of Boy George's life as a child growing up in sixties London, coming out to his Irish Catholic family and exploring his sexuality through the hedonism of the seventies - the glam

Boy George

British musician (born 1961)

George Alan O'Dowd (born 14 June 1961), known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer-songwriter and DJ who rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. He began his solo career in 1987. Boy George grew up in Eltham and was part of the New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to early 1980s. His androgynous look and style of fashion was greatly inspired by glam rock pioneers David Bowie and Marc Bolan. He formed Culture Club with Roy Hay, Mikey Craig and Jon Moss in 1981. The band's second album, Colour by Numbers (1983), sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Their hit singles include "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time (Clock of the Heart)", "I'll Tumble 4 Ya", "Church of the Poison Mind", "Karma Chameleon", "Victims", "Miss Me Blind", "It's a Miracle", "The War Song", "Move Away" and "I Just Wanna Be Loved".

Boy George was the lead singer of Jesus Loves You between 1989 and 1992 and still performs solo and with Culture Club, who have reformed twice since initially parting ways i

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