norman lebrecht
August 02, 2026
Boy George has parted from his for record label manager refusing to release the singer’s pro-Israel song ‘We Will Dance Again’.
The singer says: In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release ‘We Will Dance Again’ but he was unequivocal and said ‘I want nothing to do with this song’ and I responded ‘ok, we are done’. When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye.
Hoe meer ik het luister hoe beter ik hem ga vinden..
“You say genocide, I say war”
“If you’re ever confused, I stand with the Jews”.#BoyGeorge pic.twitter.com/CIkYRJNGwj
— Mariana_news✡🇮🇱מריאנה (@Marianasoux) August 1, 2026
The Nova Exhibition has details of how the song came about:
A few weeks ago, Boy George came to ‘06:29AM – The Moment Music Stood Still’, our exhibition in London.
He didn’t rush. He walked the field of shoes. He stood in front of the wall of faces and read the names. And there he met May Hayat, who danced at Nova music festival on the morning of October 7th, and survived.
They talked for a long time. What he saw there stayed with him, and a short time after his visit, it became a song: “We Will Dance Again.”
That phrase was never a slogan. It’s what the survivors started saying to each other in the weeks after, when nobody could imagine music again.
To hear it come back to us from someone who walked through this exhibition, and understood that this phrase means something.
Thank you, George. For coming. For listening to May. For speaking out so courageously. For NOT looking away.
עוד נרקוד – Od Nirkod