Boy George on Jacobs Stege 1987

oh hello how's it going governor Oh what do you like my teapot it's too weak no no yes nice having you here typical of this TV station yeah to cut down on the teabag yes I know I know but you know you must have loyal fans they sent you Champaign actually it's gorgeous yes they want us to drink it later on really yeah our balcony like Michael Jackson oh you're careful some sugar Oh No thank you I'm gonna tie it uh-huh maybe cake then no thank you and big Andre your cake and eat it no you couldn't back today well I'm not making you nervous and mine no you're not well I thought this was gonna be an a serious interview okay let's be no we're having me serious with a jumper like that yeah I thought I was gonna match you I thought I was going to a funeral today oh yes oh yes yes well let's be serious no I don't think that's the point of being serious well I couldn't imagine that this is the boy George that we read about a year ago um well you know just goes to show you should never believe what you read no you know what were you reading the Sun you know I was reading I was reading the Swedish papers actually really yes I'm about heroin about your friends who died and about you know all their parents is in court how did you survive and well I think any any of those anything that happens like that to a person I think really it's down to that the individual twosome get through it I mean there isn't a particular way to survive you just do it you know it's um I mean you have two choices you know you either go under or you you sort of rise out of it you know and then I'm a pretty optimistic person I mean also I'm very lucky because I I have a good career I mean I had something to go back to I can sing and I suppose in that way I'm privileged a lot of other people probably you know when they have drug problems probably have nothing to look forward to so really I have a lot of bunches over other people but I mean I think you know I think I'm basically a survivor yes because you said once that being a pop star is like being a flower when you're at the most beautiful you're wither and die but you seem to be an immortal actually well is anything what to say oh yeah well oh it's lovely this herbal tea Madonna did it actually mmm yeah no I kind of flower with Madonna by the way and I'm not gonna be cruel it's not my nature not anymore well it never was I think I've been completely misrepresented absolutely I mean I'm a very nice person underneath did this time change you yeah well not really I mean I think I think when you get involved with drugs you you become another person and I think probably now I'm back to how I was before so really I think yeah it did change you but I think I'm more myself now than I was a year ago you know has the attitude refer from the audience towards you were changed well you know I'll think the attitude of the press is very different from the attitude of your fans and the public I think the problem I mean you know people do believe a lot of things they read you know which is why it's important to come on these no shows and show people how gorgeous I really have yeah yeah sure know what I mean is that you know people then you know I mean a lot of people say there's no smoke without fire so when they read something they take it in you know I mean I do it you know I'm guilty of doing the same thing I pick up papers and I read stories about people and I feel she believed them you know and then you meet the people and they're nothing like you know they're nothing like their stories and I think the public have been wonderful I mean it's very different in Europe to England in England the press are always nasty you know because that's how they sell papers you know I mean they they they don't just pick on me they pick on Elton John and you know they pick on members of parliament you know Margaret Thatcher I mean you know they pick and everybody's that's not they don't single anyone out in particular but I mean and you know that I mean say for instance when we did the ferry disaster record you know the son you know took great advantage and used you know the fact that I was doing it as a PR job for them and then I'll you know work very nice things about me then sort of a few months later they started to sort of write nasty things again so you know to do things people love other people's misery and it depends not everybody I mean obviously there are some perverse people out there you know and there are people who get pleasure out of seeing other people you know at the bottom you know and that's I think that's one of the things it makes you know a human being survive the fact that you know that people you know get pleasure out of your misery makes you you know I don't want to give them that pleasure I want to deprive them of that pleasure I think that's the most important I think that's what makes you survive you know you you realize that people love to kick you in your down I mean not everybody I'm not I'm not generalizing because there are a lot of people who were very nice who wrote to me and we're very sweet you know and that's still going on you know good night last week on this show we had Morgan Fairchild and she gave us some of her makeup tips could you please give me some of yours and well first of all when you get up in the morning you get a beet root and you rub it all over your face and then you look really ridiculous yes I do that every morning myself and you know go into the garden roll around in the dirt huh you know yeah no I don't give I don't get my makeup done away no it's a secret no I don't know don't I mean it says you know top secret mmm it was very nice having you here thank you but now you're gonna sing yet to be reborn the stage is yours okay thank you I can take you home yeah yeah please still haven't been in England for ages

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Keywords: Boy George (Musical Artist), Jacobs Stege interview intervju 1987

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Length: 6min 25sec (385 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 08 2013