{"id":724504,"date":"2026-08-02T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724504\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:18:11","slug":"boy-george-sacks-his-label-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724504\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy George sacks his label manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>August 02, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Boy George\u00a0has parted from his for record label manager refusing to release the singer\u2019s pro-Israel song \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019 but he was unequivocal and said \u2018I want nothing to do with this song\u2019 and I responded \u2018ok, we are done\u2019. When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hoe meer ik het luister hoe beter ik hem ga vinden..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou say genocide, I say war\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re ever confused, I stand with the Jews\u201d.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BoyGeorge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#BoyGeorge<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CIkYRJNGwj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CIkYRJNGwj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mariana_news\u2721\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1\u05de\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u05e0\u05d4 (@Marianasoux) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Marianasoux\/status\/2083673230397653028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nova Exhibition has details of how the song came about:<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, Boy George came to \u201806:29AM \u2013 The Moment Music Stood Still\u2019, our exhibition in London.<br \/>He didn\u2019t 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.<br \/>They talked for a long time. What he saw there stayed with him, and a short time after his visit, it became a song: \u201cWe Will Dance Again.\u201d<br \/>That phrase was never a slogan. It\u2019s what the survivors started saying to each other in the weeks after, when nobody could imagine music again.<br \/>To hear it come back to us from someone who walked through this exhibition, and understood that this phrase means something.<br \/>Thank you, George. For coming. For listening to May. For speaking out so courageously. For NOT looking away.<br \/>\u05e2\u05d5\u05d3 \u05e0\u05e8\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3 \u2013 Od Nirkod<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht August 02, 2026 Boy George\u00a0has parted from his for record label manager refusing to release the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}