Karma by Boy George review – loud, vainglorious and very funny | Autobiography and memoir
In what might be the most entertaining music memoir since Elton John’s Me, Boy George’s Karma weaves a meandering path through several decades’ of fame, success, crash and burn, before delivering him into a kind of autumnal meditative serenity, aged 62. That it is all wildly discursive, spectacularly catty and occasionally quite mad merely confirms its authenticity. This is George O’Dowd in all his exhausting glory.It isn’t, however, his first memoir; it’s his third. Both 1995’s Take It Like a Man and 2007’s Straight…