THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS
'In what might be the most entertaining music memoir since Elton John's Me, Boy George's Karma weaves a meandering path through several decades' of fame, success, crash and burn, before delivering him into a kind of autumnal meditative serenity... This is George O'Dowd in all his exhausting glory.' Observer
'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 rock and punk rock revolution that birthed Culture Club - and the heydays of the nineties, to finally embracing the man and artist that he is today. 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.' 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. The definitive autobiography from Culture Club frontman and LGBTQ+ icon, Boy George Boy George has written two books before - the bestseller Take It Like A Man published by HarperCollins in 1995 and a second book, Straight published by Century in 2005 that picks up where his first autobiography ended - but with his resurgence, his latest book promises to be a tell-all full-life auto that holds no punches and lifts the lid on his crazy transatlantic life and career through the decades. Comps - Martin Kemp's 80'S Story, Fat Tony's I Don't Take Requests, and Elton John's Me. We are publishing this November alongside a (TBC) documentary based on his life on Amazon Prime and a biopic will follow in 2025. He'll be starring in the big London pantomime this Christmas. Coupled with his upcoming tour schedule this Summer (with Rod Stewart in London in June, and with Culture Club in America, Asia and Australia from July to September). He's based in the UK and will be available for PR at the time of publication and then very visible from the end of November in Panto in Hammersmith.
