More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk Boy George has made more than a few headlines, but the years before his Top of the Pops debut in 1982 are less well-known. Living in a squat, attending the Blitz Club, falling in and out of love – Worried About the Boy is a compassionate portrait of a much-loved icon. In this clip, George tries to get into the Blitz Club.
The Blitz Club – Worried About The Boy – BBC Two
May 21st, 2010 
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thats a line from Taboo “Would you let you in?”
I’m with Steve. I wouldn’t have let him in either. : )
@stchristopher28 – The line from Taboo (1985-1987) was actually a line from the Blitz (1979-1981)… Read all about who’s really who in Worried About the Boy at Shapersofthe80s dotcom
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I saw this last night for the first time didn’t see it all thow ): but when i saw them i said ” I wish i was born back then I love that style ( I am16)
@wowhorde12 , i was thinking the same thing ,, how good did it look back then
@mrtidman I know they all look so cool
@stchristopher28 – Hey, St Chris, I owe you an abject apology, me being such a know-all. You were absolutely right about the routine of holding a mirror up to a would-be guest coming from Taboo. Sue Tilley’s book about Leigh Bowery confirms it on page 54 – a tactic the greeter Mark Vaultier used to use (though never to me I’m pleased to say). AND I made a typo about the Blitz’s closing date: it should have said 1980, October. I blame the keyboard manufacturers… How sorry can I be?
Is the guy in the green jacket supposed to be Simon Le Bon? I’d believe it if it was – startling resemblence.
I saw Taboo when it had just opened in a small-ish theatre and the Steve Strange character did use that line, however wasn’t it something Steve Strange *also* did at the Blitz? Wasn’t he notorious for holding up a mirror to would-be club-goers and saying some variation of the ‘would YOU let you in’ line.
Just to make it more confusing, the musical Taboo conflates events from two eras (the Blitz around 80-81 and some stuff from later in the 80′s) without making that fact clear.
watched it last night, can anyone tell me the soundtracks used in this film?
watched this sunday night. was so stoned . The sound track throughout was brillient. really want to watch it again.
Was’nt Simon Le Bon in Duran Duran at this time and playing at the Rum Runner? Unless this is 1980 not 1981
@TrainmasterCurt
yeh he was at uni in birmingham at the time, but he’s from hertfordshire, near london. you never know, he might’ve been down there that night
@TrainmasterCurt – ON THIS DAY IN 1980 May 11 Simon le Bon auditions for Duran Duran in leopard-skin pink trousers. Heres an early video of DD many months later, playing their first single ♫ ♫ Planet Earth live to New Romantic dancers in the Rum Runner, the Birmingham nightspot where the band worked, John on the door, Nick deejaying, and Roger as busboy. Better click on my website to view the vid.
@superstartash – Sorry Super, but no, none of the Durannies set a foot in the Blitz, ever. They were sitll being busboys in the Rum Runner in Birmingham. First time they met the Blitz Kids from London was when Spandau Ballet invaded their home territory to play a “secret date” at the Botanical Gardens in b/ham on Nov 14, 1980, when Spandau crashed on the floor of the promoter’s apartment afterwards! Gary Kemp tells the tale in his new autobiography.
whats the song at the beginning of the clip called? I watched this yesterday on BBC i player and its been bugging me as to what the song is since.
BTW I loved the show, and looking at boy george back then makes me wonder how did he become so ugly when you look at him today?