BOY GEORGE'S 1970s: SAVE ME FROM SUBURBIA (2016)

Boy George journeys back to his formative years for this documentary, the centrepiece of BBC Music’s My Generation season looking at the 1970s. He looks back to September 1982 when an unknown George Alan O’Dowd - aka Boy George - appeared on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops with his group Culture Club, singing Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? The next day, the British press went wild. Totally bewildered by his appearance, they asked ‘Was he a boy or a girl?’ in hand-wringing horror. British teens on the other hand loved it and sent it to Number 1 in the charts; the rest of the world would soon follow resulting in Number 1’s in 23 countries. To date, Boy George is a Brit and Grammy Award-winning artist who has sold over 100 million singles and in excess of 50 million albums. He is also the author of two bestselling autobiographies, a fashion designer, a Broadway producer and, arguably, single-handedly the public figure who did most to usher in a new era of sexual tolerance in Britain at a time w