BOY GEORGE Interview Nov 17 1991 PEOPLE ARE TALKING San Francisco TV 

What people never realized that George was a very intelligent man and has ethics. He can hold a terrific conversation; that's why Johnny Carlson really liked him, and liked having George on his show.

I was there in the studio that day. During a commercial break, Boy George winked at me 😘

Boy George was beautiful looking. He cheered up the down trodden broke and poor 1980s. We had no money and colourful George brightened up our gray days. I really mean that. I was a kid in the 80s and it wasn't easy for most people.

I love him! He is so honest and down to earth .. I know this is from 1991 but he has never changed and I respect him so much for that.

Boy George was my idol when I was growing up. I've seen him a couple of times and shook his hand. He always give a good interview, people are surprised by how intelligent he is.

He is so true to himself and I love how articulate he is and his delivery. And......he has beautiful eyes.

An amazing person with personality, wit, opinion and lives his life fully and bravely.

The Martyr Mantras is a MASTERPIECE

George has an awesome personality as well as a great entertainer , very intellectual and intelligent and he is like a John Lennon of culture club

I think he is very nice and intelligent. An honest person

Boy George you look fantastic and l admire your intelligence and the way you speak when people interview you blessings to you my brother

Love your personality Boy George ❤️💙💜

This Martyr Mantras period is the period where he was most peaceful and calm... you can tell by the way he answers the questions and it helps that its also the period when he looks at his most beautiful physically ...

There is so much going on in this interview that I am still trying to digest it all. First of all, thank you again Mr. David for posting another revelatory piece of Boy George’s history. “People that last have more than just their wardrobe…” Well said, George, well said. Who would have thought that a local TV show would be fertile ground for quite possibly the best Boy George interview I have ever seen. Whoever the producer was for this show either had an obvious love for George, his message, and his overwhelming talent, or they just hit the right combination of luck and stardust all at the same time. “Culture Club is done..” “I don’t want to live on my past successes.” The fact that he had it written into his concert contracts that he wouldn’t do any Culture Club songs is remarkable. Still, he had a soft spot in his heart for that time period as he would still do a couple of their songs live in his shows. It’s clear that George was at a crossroads at this point in his career, wanting to move forward and grow as an artist, to be taken as more than just a pretty boy in makeup and flashy wardrobe. Slamming his American record label Virgin perhaps was not the smartest thing to do, but by this point, we really didn’t have an awareness of George in America. “Virgin Records don’t understand me..” Reminds me a lot of the struggles Prince was having with his record label. Certainly, the gigantic success days of Culture Club were behind him. Still, he would pop up over and over, stubbornly refusing to be discarded upon a heaping pile of irrelevant 80s acts. In so many ways, he had more in common with an artist like Prince then he ever did with other MTV acts of the era. “You can’t separate style and content..” and his discussion of Jimi Hendrix, it’s clear that George gets it. George is a musical genius, through and through. I was listening to Bow Down Mister yesterday; that song still moves me all these years later. I still remember waiting patiently at Sam Goody’s for the clerk to open the shipping box containing The Martyr Mantras. Perhaps at the time, I was a bit too young to get that record, but all these years on now, I realize just how deep that record truly was. What a statement it was for a major star to pivot and put his life philosophy out there as part of his art. Mr. David, I feel so greedy. I just want more and more. May your collection of things to digitize and upload never run dry! You are doing more for George’s ongoing legacy than anyone I can think of. What’s your story about how you came to admire George so much? I would love to know. I was fascinated with George discussing signing Eve Gallagher and signing her at the age of 37 to his label. It’s a shame she didn’t hit quite as big over here in America as she should have for the long haul. Her smoky bluesy sound is reminiscent of Lisa Stansfield. I need to find out more about her career progression over the years. She only has a tiny presence on my chosen music streaming platform, Apple Music. I absolutely loved George’s reverence for Princess Diana and the role she was playing in de-stigmatizing AIDS and her tireless work for AIDS-related charities. “She’s pretty down… really good at her job.” Yes, George. All the YES! There is so much good stuff going on in this interview. Isn’t it beautiful that the caller who asked about George duetting with Alison Moyet would result in a discussion of George’s desire to duet with Gladys Knight. How great that TWENTY-EIGHT years later, we would get a beautiful collaboration between the two on the song Runaway Train. The revelation that George was writing a book.. four years later I was devouring that same book, Take It Like a Man, as well as it’s follow-up, Straight. The fact that a local show got such an exclusive clip of Generations of Love, a song that had yet to be released in America, was also quite remarkable. The lyrics to that song.. “There’s too many people fighting, tied to the wheel…no big AIDS sensation, no twenty-eight clause, the end of apartheid, no message of war…” We need George’s message today, in 2022, more than ever. What an enormous musical statement, transcending the intervening decades! I never expected to be writing such a massive treatise on George on a Friday morning, but this interview has stimulated my brain in such amazing ways. Bravo, Mr. David!

Great interview. Thanks for posting.

Unique and always advanced to his time. Absolutely Gorgeus and Genius. Xoxo

You are good at being you. Don't change. 😘😊💝

29:26 "hes the greatest thing ever" ♥️♥️🔥🔥And love the look on George's face. Hes so flattered it's adorable ☺

Remember seeing this as a teen on local TV (Bay Area) and then seeing him at the Edge in Palo Alto, California! He toured as Boy George since Jesus Loves You was "controversial." Bought an awesome "Absolutely Queer" t-shirt and wore it the next day to be ridiculed in High School by teachers and classmates alike. Still love this era of the Boy.

I love you boy George!

i was like this before i was like this. and thats why i am like this.

Love this very beautiful George’s Hara Krishna theme goin on here very spiritual ♥️

hermoso boy!!!

5:39 so true George! Famous ppl arent immune from being expected to show respect.

Very good

Good interview! Boy George talks about God, that he is vegan, & so much more!

Bakmayı gülmeyi bu kadar güzel gözlerle iyi biliyor ❤❤❤❤

Supper supper

Keep up the good work

Very goood

We are haveing fun

RU-vid Video up thank you👍✨I Love Love Love you George❤️🧡💛💙💚💜😍💖💝💗💓💞💕💘❣️✨30歳になっても美して魅力的な George‼️中性的な魅力がまだあります‼️美し過ぎて見ていると引き込まれて触れてみたくなります😭

Keep up the work

Massallhh maviş gözlerine insan bakmaktan kendini alamıyor ❤

Very nice e

We think very good

Looks good

Wow

I was born Summer 1991. Not that it matters lol

UGH! They're looking at Boy George like he's an alien! So rude!

19:35.. LOL what a long wait. BG never worked with Gladis until his 50s in "Runaway Train" song.

Not a transvestite! No, of course he's not. In his early adulthood, George has explained that he worked as a milliner. He is very talented with fabrics. Color, shape, elaboration and tailoring. 🙂

Wow!I didn't know he wanted to sing with Gladys Knight way back then!It took a while but I love 'Runaway Train' 🕺🕺🕺🎧🎤🎙🎶🎵🎼

BG predicted the future. Lol in a way MTV DID die! But now looking back I'd bet hed say it was better with music videos than how it is today. So maybe now it can just die🤣

George is wonderful ! ! I do find his latest 2020 posts unwatchable though

~ HUGS ~🍥🤺

Rock and rool

God

George was born in ‘61. I was born ten years later. Point is we remember the 70’s, came up through the ‘80’s and ‘90’s. Again, George was always a modern, forward thinking, bright bulb. Comparing this with the ‘84 Donahue appearance, seven years had passed, but people still seem naive and dense. Polyester/hair helmet conservative style was still the norm for talk show hosts. Newscasters were ALWAYS like polyester clad librarians. It kinda shocks me, because I’ve always sort of ignored/overlooked banal “normalcy”. Times have changed, because even in conservative formats people in general are comparatively “sexy” looking now (and obviously more diverse). Cringe at 14:20: “But the sound was..BLACK!” SMH. God, I lived through crazy eras, pre internet haha, , and watching this (specifically these hosts, good god) reminds me of the types of things I’ve never had patience for. 18:20, oh yeah, the first Fergie, Sarah Ferguson, before Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie. Also loved what George said about Elizabeth Taylor.

I went when I was 41 14 y

😍😍😍esa carita hermosa es la que me enamoro hermoso muñequito

We think it it good

LOVE the Madonna shade

Sadece ünlü bir şarkıcı değil model de olabilirdi

We the mucsck

19 82

Vanessa

Derek MCluckie - The Culture Club Bit. - RU-vid

"open about your gayness" 😂

Kaarmer

It is geT

Why do people from London always think Birmingham is in the North 😂

Lo

There is something wrong w me 2

Long hair, and thats all

24:35⚘♥️💋

The last woman dressed as George circa 83/84 was so overwhelmed to the point of incoherent idiocy that I think she's a true representative of his fan base

Lon

Very good