Trivia

Best friend of Boy George (George O'Dowd) on and off for many years, until a final falling out over George's musical Taboo (2003) (c 1980 - c 2002). According to Marilyn, they're close friends again (2006).

Discovered in 1982 by Haysi Fantayzee's Kate Garner and Paul Caplan, who also produced Marilyn's first few singles.

Marilyn has battled depression for most of his life, and was agoraphobic for a length of time as a teenager and again as an adult.

Parents' names were Peter and Margaret Robinson. Father was a writer and a yacht salesman in Jamaica when Peter was born there on November 3 1962. Marilyn and his mother returned to Britain after his parents split up when he was 18 months old. Mother had worked for a Nottingham England television company (c 1980s).

The 2002 stage musical by Boy George, Taboo (2003), features Marilyn and other pop and club stars of the 1980s. The musical was a London West End smash before transferring to Broadway in NY (produced by Rosie O'Donnell).

Sang on Band Aid's 1984 single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".

He briefly retired from the industry until 2001, when he made a series of successful club appearances and a greatest hits album was released. He is still in demand for interviews and TV appearances. (2001)