Boy George reveals Dame Tracey's punk past

SINGER Boy George has revealed Dame Tracey Emin was in “early rehearsals” with 1980s band Culture Club.

- By HANNAH ROBERTS, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter

The former Voice UK judge, 64, said the artist, known for her headline-grabbing '90s works Everyone I Have Ever Slept With and My Bed, later decided that band life “wasn’t for her.”

Boy George told the BBC: “I knew Tracey when she was 14, and in fact, it was at a Bowie gig that I met her again years later, when she became Tracey Emin.

“I knew her as Tracey from Margate. So when I went to see David Bowie at the Hanover Grand I went backstage, and he goes, ‘Have you met the artist, Tracey Emin?’ And he was introducing me to Tracey and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, you're Tracey Emin?’

“It was a real light bulb moment, because I knew her when she was a kid. So that’s how I was introduced to her by David Bowie. I was very impressed.