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September 25, 2007

Biography Tells Pop Star Tales

Boygeorge The Biography channel is going the musical route with several of its premiere epoisodes, chronicling the lives of a few people whose stories would be "Behind the Music" gems.
On Oct. 11 Bio will feature Boy George leaping from "I'll Tumble For You" to performing community service with the New York City Department of Sanitation, and "Weird Al" Yankovic, who has created some humorous songs.
Oct. 18 will showcase Whitney Houston's rise to becoming "the fourth best-selling female recording artist of all time" to a life rife with "persistent rumors of drug abuse." Second hour belongs to Beyonce, whose family "risked virtually everything," according to the Bio press release, to get her career started.

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