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Boy George on isolation: 'We need music now more than ever'

By Jonathan Dean
The Times·
11 mins to read

The pop idol and provocateur examines his past and his problems with the present. By Jonathan Dean.

Boy George pops up on FaceTime from his London lockdown location in a simple black hat and T-shirt. "I'll get excited about dressing up when this is over," he says, meaning the pandemic. His default setting, during a call that starts fast and goes on accelerating, is a big smile and cackling, cheeky, contagious laugh.

He has been isolating for four weeks. Does

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