Take It Like A Man
10 November 1995Imprint: Sidgwick & Jackson
Synopsis
BOY GEORGE'S BESTSELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY - HONEST, FUNNY, MOVING AND ENTERTAINING.
'Witty and outrageous' – Mail on Sunday
When he was a boy growing up in sixties London, the 'pink sheep' of his working-class Irish Catholic family, George Alan O'Dowd wanted to be like Shirley Bassey. He got a lot more than he bargained for.
When new wave arrived, Boy George became a star....
Details
10 November 1995624 pages
9780330323628Imprint: Sidgwick & Jackson
Reviews
Candid and entertaining . . . his public image was wildly at odds with his private self, the self that was living fabulously and wildlyThe Times
If there's another book that can top it for bitchiness, sex, glamour, fame and heartache, then Jackie Collins must be the authorQ
The book is good-humoured and often very funny, even about the most harrowing days of his drug addictionLynn Barber, Telegraph
Touchingly, at the centre of this creation, you find an insecure bruiser of a guy, built like a bricklayer and yet cooler than any royal blue-blood. You'll not read a more astonishing music biography this yearNME
