Took a number of jobs to get by prior to achieving success, including picking fruit, millinery work, and joining the Royal Shakespeare Company as a makeup artist
Performed with the band Bow Wow Wow after garnering the attention of Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the Sex Pistols
Released his debut album with Culture Club, Kissing to Be Clever, in 1982
Overslept the day that Band Aid was recording "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in which George was to be a guest vocalist
Wrote lyrics for the Broadway musical Taboo, in which he also co-starred