Jon Moss from Culture Club

Of all the guys in the. Band, he was the last one I’d have suspected of having a relationship with Boy George.

Always reminded me of Tony Curtis.

Good interview with Jon

Not hot.

Jon Moss held his own, but the hot stuff in Culture Club was/is Mikey Craig. He's held up rather well, too, still fetching.

R5 Stop trying to make "fetching" happen.

R4, why?

Wow, I *just* watched the "I'll Tumble For Ya" video and was remarking what a good-looking man he was.

What is his sexual orientation?

R9, most likely bi. He eventually married a woman. The relationship with Boy George was apparently traumatic.

I was molested in the woods once. Got all kinds of moss up my ass crack.

In his book, George writes about rimming him.

Is Boy George top or bottom or versatile?

Was Boy George the only man he was with?

The "It's a Miracle video" coyly alludes to their relationship starting at 2:55

Can't believe no one mentioned him in the “Now That Is One Hot Jew” thread

R15, I never noticed that!

Jon Moss and Duran Duran's Roger Taylor: My safe boy crushes of the 80s. Awww.

So surprised he found George attractive. Was he the only person who did?

I never realized how much Boy George looked like Joan Cusack until I watched that video at r15

Are there any shirtless pictures of Boy George out there?

Why did the other 3 push him out of the band? It was amazing they had the original 4 for so long.

Jon shirtless

Didn’t Moss have emotional problems?

Or am I confusing him with Roger Taylor?

Hot...

Miss George's hair and makeup were frightening in that video.

Good interview

Did Jon ever sing?

Jon with George and Marilyn

Very hot. I wonder if George's drug problems got in the way or was it Jon's internalized homophobia?

R30, probably both

He was beautiful and very appealing in the "It's a Miracle" video.

I crushed out on Jon (in 6th grade!) before I even understood I was gay.

[quote] Boy George and Culture Club Drummer Jon Moss Revisit Their Sexually Charged First Band Rehearsal: ‘Instant Flirtation’

It started with a picture on the wall.

Boy George was on date with Les Daley, the editor of My Guy magazine, and during a pit stop at Daley's office, George spotted a photo of Jon Moss, future drummer of Culture Club, on the wall. The rest is history that's being revisited in the new documentary Boy George & Culture Club, premiering June 5 at the Tribeca Festival. The film, directed by Alison Ellwood, is screening at Tribeca through June 12.

All four members of Culture Club participated in the documentary: George, Moss, bassist Mikey Craig and guitarist Roy Hay. In the beginning, there was just George (real name: George O'Dowd), Craig and a guitarist named John Suede. They needed a drummer. And along came Moss.

"I rang him up, and we had the most bizarre conversation," George, 63, recalls of his first conversation with Moss in 1981. "I was like, 'You know, I'm starting this band, and we got a rehearsal on Sunday at Elephant and Castle. Do you want to come?"

"He turns up — I didn't think he was going to come," George continues. "He turns up in this, like, you know, very expensive Golf Convertible with this stinking and beautiful perfume, with his earrings in, and yeah, it was, it was love at first sight, basically."

Moss, 67, then slowly walks through a back door to tell his side of the story. "He was a beautiful, exotic creature," he says of George. "Really attracted to him, like a crush, you know, although I'd never had a relationship with a man before, and I was absolutely smitten."

George picks up the story: "When I met John, John was so kind of, almost a bit flirtatious and provocative. He wasn't some, like, uptight straight guy that was, like, lured into some evil world by me. I mean, he was as much a part of it as I was. You know, there was an instant flirtation between us."

Things heated up pretty quickly. "So we had this sort of rehearsal, and I think I put my hand on his knee, and he put his hand on my knee, and it was like, ooh, exciting. It's very exciting," Moss says.

"If you're lucky enough in your life to have a moment, it must be like having fate," he adds. "There was a moment in my life when I thought, 'I don't know what's happening here, but something's happening.' I just remember it was like... I knew my life was gonna change."

Craig recalls noticing "an interaction" between the two during that first rehearsal. "By about the third rehearsal, we're packing up the gear ready to go home, and Jon says, 'I kind of like George,' " Craig recalls in the documentary. "And I said, 'No, no, you can't. You can't do this.' I said, 'It's not gonna work. You're gonna ruin the band. It's gonna, it's gonna end before we begin.' And John turned to me and says, 'It's too late. I've already slept with him.' "

It didn't ruin the band — at least not at first. After replacing Suede with Roy Hay and becoming Culture Club (a nod to the four distinct backgrounds of the members: George is Irish, Moss is Jewish, Craig is of Jamaican descent and Hay is and Englishman), the band would go on to dizzying success. Their first two albums, 1982's Kissing to Be Clever and 1983's Colour by Numbers, were global hits that spawned a string of massive hit singles, including "Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me" and "Karma Chameleon." At the 1984 Grammys, they won Best New Artist over Eurythmics.

Two years later, amid declining sales, friction in the band, the end of George and Moss's tumultuous relationship, and George's descent into addiction, Culture Club split up. They reformed in 1998 for four years and reunited again in 2011. They remain active to this day, though without Moss, who departed in 2018 and sued the band for tour income he claimed was owed to him after he was allegedly "expelled" from the group by the band's manager. The case was settled out of court in 2023 for a reported £1.75m.

Jon Moss is straight

[quote] The "It's a Miracle video" coyly alludes to their relationship

I mean, most of Colour by Numbers is George writing a big love letter to Jon.

I had the calendar that featured R23's photo. Jon was May. I shot a lot of loads to that photo.

R35, did you even bother to read the article at R34?

My pussy stinks!

The sexually Ambiguous 80s. Didn't Marilyn fuck around with Gavin Rossdale before he went all bunch in Bush?

R39 Yes. George wrote about it in his first memoir and Gavin was not thrilled.

There was a young guy that worked at my local Hoodwill that looked just like Jon Moss ! I told him and he was all "who" ? So then I pulled up a pic and he couldnt believe it . He was in his early 20s and had never heard of Culture Club .