Music is the cradle of creativity; it is abstract and nothing else is able to reach the centre of a person and turn it upside-down quite like music. That is why the devil likes music: so he can corrupt it. Which is what makes this story both sad and frustrating:

‘Drug-crazed idiot’ Boy George jailed for 15 months for chaining male escort to wall and beating him

Boy George was sentenced to 15 months jail today for handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.

The 47-year-old former Culture Club singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, imprisoned Audun Carlsen during a drug-fuelled naked photoshoot at his London flat.