POP/ROCK - Feb. 12, 1987

Pop singer Boy George, yawning and declaring he was bored, testified Tuesday in a London court that he bought heroin about 30 times from a couple on trial. The singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, told the court he picked up heroin in 1986 at the London flat of Steven Luben and Diane Fiener, who have pleaded innocent of charges of supplying heroin to various unidentified persons. Boy George, 25, testified that another British singer, Marilyn, also was supplied by Luben and Fiener, who are common law husband and wife. “No, it’s sedatives just to calm me down,” the singer said when the prosecutor asked if his drowsiness was connected to drug addiction. “I am receiving medical treatment at the moment.”