BOY GEORGE Take It Like A Man (1995 UK 496-page softback book, writing with complete honesty, & with his usual biting wit, Boy George chronicles his extraordinary life & times in this highly acclaimed autobiography, when he was a little boy growing up in Woolwich, George wanted to be like Shirley Bassey, as a man, famous for his gender-bending clothes & elaborate make up as much as for his success as the lead singer of Culture Club, he became a mediadarling and pop icon - then came fame & drugs, and a spectacular fall from grace . . .)