, lead singer of Culture Club, was synonymous with 1980s pop culture. Following a string of ubiquitous international radio hits such as “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” and “Karma Chameleon,” the Grammy-winning singer embarked on a solo career, with his recording of “The Crying Game” punctuating Neil Jordan’s Academy Awarding-winning film of the same name. A steady fixture on reality shows as host of “The Voice Australia” and “The Voice U.K.
Looking ahead, are you hoping to be cast in a scripted role where you get to play someone other than yourself? I would love to have a role in a movie where I wasn’t playing myself. That’d be so interesting. I see a lot of things and I always think, “You know, why aren’t I in that?” It’s something I wouldn’t have thought about when I was young and a bit more rigid about being a musician, but in this kind of climate that we’re in, you’re kind of doing all sorts of interesting things. I would say that live playing is the pinnacle of what I love.