Boy George admits to stalking his late idol David Bowie while promoting Broadway musical Moulin Rouge
- The 62-year-old singer appeared on the NBC show to promote his appearance in the Broadway musical Moulin Rouge
- Boy George shared that he had Bowie's name tattooed on his arm and as a boy would sit outside his house
- He also explained how he ended up doing the song Electric Energy with Ariana DeBose that was on the new Argylle movie soundtrack
Boy George admitted to stalking his late idol David Bowie on Monday's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on NBC.
The 62-year-old singer, who was appearing on the show to promote his appearance in the Broadway musical Moulin Rouge, shared that he had Bowie's name tattooed on his arm.
Jimmy, 49, asked if he ever got to hangout with Bowie.
'I met Bowie when I was 19 and he came into a nightclub that I was working in to try and find people for his ''Ashes to Ashes'' video,' he said. 'I didn't make the grade. I didn't cut it that night. But the next night, I was at another club and I met him and he said to me ''you look like my friend Klaus Nomi'' and of course at that time I thought I was the most original person on the planet. I was furious!'
'Then I realized who Klaus Nomi was and I was like 'Oh my God what an honor,' said Boy George, referencing the 1970s East Village artist who performed with Bowie.
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Boy George admitted to stalking his idol David Bowie on Monday's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on NBC
'When I got famous, I saw him once in Australia in the first class lounge and I was just freshly famous. And I was like '''Am I allowed to go talk to Bowie? And on what level do I talk to him.'' Because I used to sit outside his house when I was 10.'
Boy George, who wore a bright blue bowler hat with a black suit, said he would sit outside Bowie's house with many fans.
'If he came out, simply to see what shoes he might be wearing,' said Boy George, who wrote a tribute to Bowie after his death in 2016 at age 69.
'Did you ever see him?' Jimmy asked.
'No, but there was this one time when Angie Bowie opened a window and told us all to f-off,' Boy George said. 'We were kind of thrilled even though she wasn't being friendly.'
Boy George also explained how he ended up doing the song Electric Energy with Ariana DeBose that was on the new Argylle movie soundtrack.
'The first time I met Ariana we met half an hour before we ever performed together,' Boy George said. 'Everything was done virtually.'
Boy George said he got involved with that song after he got a random phone call while working in New York asking him to go into a studio and record. He said he did it when he got back from London and was given instructions to 'conjure up something that I would have written in 1982.' He said he thought of words like ''devils, demons and employ''.'
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The 62-year-old Grammy winning singer was appearing on the show to promote his appearance in the Broadway musical Moulin Rouge
!['I met Bowie when I was 19 and he came into a nightclub that I was working in to try and find people for his ''Ashes to Ashes'' video,' he said. 'I didn't make the grade. I didn't cut it that night. But the next night, I was at another club and I met him and he said to me ''you look like my friend Klaus Nomi'' and of course at that time I thought I was the most original person on the planet. I was furious!'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/06/05/80900709-13049687-image-a-24_1707197451199.jpg)
'I met Bowie when I was 19 and he came into a nightclub that I was working in to try and find people for his ''Ashes to Ashes'' video,' he said. 'I didn't make the grade. I didn't cut it that night. But the next night, I was at another club and I met him and he said to me ''you look like my friend Klaus Nomi'' and of course at that time I thought I was the most original person on the planet. I was furious!'
![Boy George wrote a tribute to Bowie after his death in 2016 at age 69](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/06/05/80900713-13049687-image-m-28_1707197485440.jpg)
Boy George wrote a tribute to Bowie after his death in 2016 at age 69
![David Bowie, shown performing in June 2004 in Prague, was a major influence on Boy George](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/06/08/80904699-13049687-image-a-101_1707208398937.jpg)
David Bowie, shown performing in June 2004 in Prague, was a major influence on Boy George
Jimmy asked him if he remembered what it felt like when he won a Grammy with Culture Cub for Best New Artist in 1984.
'It was notorious because I said ''Thank you America you know a good drag queen when you see one'',' Boy George said.
He said he did that because the other people were being 'label lickers' giving thanks to their managers and the 'people we made money for' and he wanted to be a rebel and say something outrageous.'
'It caused a huge kerfuffle. People were very alarmed,' he said.
He said he was excited to be part of the Moulin Rouge and was doing 100 shows.
'I feel excited about going on rather than nervous,' Boy George said.