{"id":481563,"date":"2019-01-30T10:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=786512"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:49:40","slug":"boy-george-culture-club-play-gospel-pop-song-life-on-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/boy-george-culture-club-play-gospel-pop-song-life-on-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy George, Culture Club Play Gospel-Pop Song \u2018Life\u2019 on \u2018Ellen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Rozman_16091_20190129_0587.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/boy-george\/\" id=\"auto-tag_boy-george\" data-tag=\"boy-george\">Boy George<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/culture-club\/\" id=\"auto-tag_culture-club\" data-tag=\"culture-club\">Culture Club<\/a> staged a candle-lit performance of their recent gospel-pop single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-boy-george-culture-club-play-candlelit-gospel-tinged-life-on-corden-733435\/\">\u201cLife\u201d<\/a> on Wednesday\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ellen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ellen\" data-tag=\"ellen\">Ellen<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The frontman belted the tune in a wide vibrato over palm-muted guitar stabs, smooth backing vocals and a laid-back rhythm section. \u201cWill you let me breathe now while I find my truth?\/ If I love myself, don\u2019t mean I don\u2019t love you,\u201d he sang on a stage lined with candles \u2014 including a digital one flickering behind him on a massive backdrop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLife\u201d is the title-track from Culture Club\u2019s recently issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-boy-george-culture-club-preview-first-album-in-19-years-705217\/\">sixth LP<\/a>, their first record in 19 years. The album, which follows 1999\u2019s <em>Don\u2019t Mind If I Do<\/em>, also includes the singles \u201cLet Somebody Love You\u201d and \u201cMore Than Silence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band, who wrapped a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/boy-george-b-52s-announce-summer-tour-204577\/\">North American tour<\/a> in October, have two international dates booked for April: the 11th at Switzerland\u2019s Zermatt Unplugged festival and the 13th in Vejle, Denmark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/boy-george-culture-club-life-ellen-786512\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy George and Culture Club staged a candle-lit performance of their recent gospel-pop single \u201cLife\u201d on Wednesday\u2019s Ellen. The frontman belted the tune in a wide vibrato over palm-muted guitar stabs, smooth backing vocals and a laid-back rhythm section. \u201cWill you let me breathe now while I find my truth?\/ If I love myself, don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 08:55:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}