Without you, What would I do?
George, who has been enjoying some success via a guest vocal on Mark Ronson‘s splendid Somebody To Love Me, has been at it again, this time in an interview by Shirley Halperin with
In the interview, George talks about the forthcoming Culture Club reunion and he also discusses fellow showmen from past and present…and you-know-who obviously features in it.
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THR: If you were starting out today, would you try out for a show like The X-Factor or American Idol?
George: I wouldn’t survive on X-Factor. I’m not someone who can sing anything? And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing. I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they?re singing about is just as important as how they?re singing it. I can’t imagine what Simon Cowell would have said to Ziggy Stardust. ?Honey, lose the cape??
THR: Since Idol, Adam [Lambert] has been pretty open about his sexuality, do you wish you could have been more up front about yours at the height of your career?
George: I think you do things in your own time. My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn’t be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn’t be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn’t have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain. A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
THR: How do you think you would?ve handled the internet in your younger years?
George: As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant. But there are aspects to the internet that are very grimy and dark. Whenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes. When someone writes something nasty, I just think, “If that’s your contribution to my day, I really don’t need your impoliteness.” I’m lucky that people are very cool with me and I get a lot of love. I appreciate that.