Boy George sent “tirades of love and worship” to David Bowie via email

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Boy George has recalled sending “tirades of love and worship” to David Bowie via email.During the first episode of The Lulu Podcast: Turning Points, the soloist and former Culture Club frontman looked back on being a huge fan of the late icon in his younger years.

This came after Lulu said that “people looked at [her] differently” after she worked with Bowie.“Because I think Bowie was one of those people that if he liked you, it was like, ‘Oh I’m absolutely cool, don’t even try to consider that I’m not’,” George responded.The singer then remembered “bunking off school to go and see Bowie coming back from Berlin” to London in 1976.George said: “There’s a photo of me at Victoria station when I was 14 that I found recently […] He arrived at Victoria station in the big sort of Cadillac, and I remember being photographed and I remember thinking, ‘I might get in trouble because I’m being photographed.

What if my mum sees it?’“So I recently saw [the photo] and it’s mindblowing.” You can see the image in the post below.George went on to say that he “used to send [Bowie] emails” when he was older and had met the star. “I’d send these tirades of love and worship, and I’d get like a line back,” he explained.

The two artists also spoke on the phone.The singer, who has cited Bowie as one of his biggest influences, recalled first seeing the legendary artist live when he was 11 in the early ’70s.“I used to sit outside his house,” George admitted. “There’s a famous story about [Bowie’s ex-wife] Angie opening the window and telling us to fuck off.