Boy George gives autograph after 10 years

Boy George has given a fan an autograph a decade after he originally asked for it.

The Culture Club star recently discovered a sleeve from the band's 1983 album Colour By Numbers while clearing out his London home.

The singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, told his Twitter followers about the find. He said: "I found an old CC album someone sent to get signed. Gonna send it. Maybe they moved? It belongs to Peter J Anderson in Hebburn, Tyne & Wear NE31? Where’s that?"

According to the Sunday Sun in Newcastle, Anderson soon received the signed record, along with a signed photograph and a personal note from O'Dowd apologising for the delay.

Anderson, a retired landscape gardener, told the paper: "This has taken me on such a nostalgia trip. I'd forgotten all about it... it must have been 10 or even 12 years ago that I sent it to him.

"I was over the moon to get it back. Boy George and Culture Club were a new sound in the 1980s, unlike anything we’d heard before, so I saw them when they came to Newcastle City Hall and other venues, and was a big fan."

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