Karma: My Autobiography: 'The most entertaining music memoir since Elton John' Observer (Paperback) - Boy George

The definitive autobiography from Culture Club frontman and LGBTQ+ icon, Boy George

Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the fabulous Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club.

Told in his inimitable style, Karma will reflect on Boy George's life as a kid growing up in sixties London, through the hedonism of the seventies and the glam rock and punk rock revolution that birthed Culture Club, and the heydays of the nineties meeting musical legends like David Bowie, Madonna and Prince - as well as addressing all those rumours. The book will reveal the highs and lows of love, loss, addiction, recovery, prison, and celebrity on Boy George's journey through fame to finally embracing the man and artist that he is today: '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 learning to be George Alan O'Dowd from Eltham who it turns out is quite an interesting person.'

With all the humour, honesty, sarcasm (and hats!) that you'd expect, Karma gives us a unique insight into Boy George's incredible story and the true evolution of a music icon.

'Culture Club is always going to be one of those lovers I go back to. I've railed against it and that Boy George character I created. For years I convinced myself I was a creature of habit, unchangeable, immovable. But eventually you have to look in the mirror. Not looking for spots, looking for something deeper. Why the hell am I here? I would say life is the point of life.'

About the Author

Boy George, born George Alan O'Dowd in London in 1961, is a Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning musician and lead singer of Culture Club since its inception in 1981.

Spencer Bright is the co-writer of Karma. He co-wrote Boy George's first autobiography, Take It Like A Man. He worked in Fleet Street for many years writing for multiple publications notably as a staff writer on the Evening Standard and feature writer and rock critic for the Daily Mail. He is the author of books on music, Soho and the Holocaust.