Boy George said he parted company with Tony Pontius on Friday, July 31, after a dispute over “We Will Dance Again,” the pro-Israel track he wants to release widely. The split lands after his exit from the upcoming London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, keeping the focus on how fast the fallout is moving through his own business setup.
BGP and Tony Pontius
“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,” he said on X. That is the clearest description yet of how the label break happened and why he sees it as part of a wider personal and professional cost.
He also said Pontius was “unequivocal” in saying, “I want nothing to do with this song,” before he replied, “ok, we are done.” Boy George releases We Will Dance Again after Boy George And Tony Pontius Split sits alongside the same timeline: the label split, the push to release the song, and the decision to move on without the manager who had handled BGP for years.
Jesus Christ Superstar exit
Last week, Paul “PK” Kemlsey said his client would no longer appear as King Herod in the upcoming London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium. Boy George tied that exit to the same stretch of days that produced the label split, which makes the business picture look less like a single disagreement and more like a fast cascade of professional losses.
He said he wanted to widely release “We Will Dance Again,” a track he said was created with the help of AI and released on X, Instagram and Threads, with Bandcamp still carrying it at press time. The song shares its title with a 2024 documentary about the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack at the Nova Music festival in Israel, and it includes the lines, “You say genocide, I say war/ When you’re attacked, that’s what the army’s for,” and “You never mention Oct. 7/ Young girls raped against trees/ Murdered brutally/ For the crime of dancing.”
Boy George, 65, has made the trade-off plain: he says he is standing up for Jewish friends, even as the song and his West End exit have carried professional fallout. The open question now is not whether the release has become costly, but how much of his current music operation can survive if BGP, the label, and the stage work keep moving in opposite directions.
Boy George and Tony Pontius
Boy George Challenges Israel Debate with We Will Dance Again Boy George Jesus Christ Superstar tracks the same strain across the week, and Boy George says he will rerecord the song himself soon. That points to a blunt conclusion: he is choosing to keep the record in circulation, even if the manager who ran BGP for a number of years is no longer part of the operation.
