Peter Murphy and Boy George release Juno Reactor remix of ‘Let The Flowers Grow’
Peter Murphy (Photo by Jolene Siana) | Boy George (Photo by Dean Stockings) | Juno Reactor
English singer Peter Murphy and Culture Club frontman Boy George have issued a new digital single, “Let The Flowers Grow (Juno Reactor Remix)”, via Metropolis Records. The track reworks their 2024 orchestral collaboration “Let The Flowers Grow“, originally released as a duet single and later added as a bonus track to Murphy’s 2025 studio album “Silver Shade”.
Brighton-based electronic project Juno Reactor, led by composer and producer Ben Watkins, reshapes the song into a long-form electronic piece that runs just over six and a half minutes. Known for combining electronica, psy-trance, world music and orchestral textures, Juno Reactor brings its characteristic cinematic and global sound to the remix, fusing electronic, tribal and symphonic elements.
“Let The Flowers Grow” was first issued as a digital single on 8 November 2024 through Metropolis Records, with Youth (Killing Joke) producing and co-writing. The song began as a personal reflection on George’s experience of accepting his sexuality, then broadened to address identity across race, gender, creed and religion. The original version was later included as a bonus track on “Silver Shade”, Murphy’s eleventh solo album, which was released on 9 May 2025.
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About Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy (born 11 July 1957 in Northampton, England) first came to prominence as vocalist of Bauhaus, the post-punk band he co-founded in 1978 with Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins. Bauhaus’ debut single “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (1979) is widely cited as a foundational goth rock track and was followed by albums such as “In the Flat Field” (1980), “Mask” (1981), “The Sky’s Gone Out” (1982) and “Burning from the Inside” (1983) before the group initially disbanded.
After a one-off project with Mick Karn as Dalis Car and the album “The Waking Hour” (1984), Murphy began a solo career with “Should the World Fail to Fall Apart” (1986) and “Love Hysteria” (1988). His 1989 album “Deep” brought him broader exposure, helped by the single “Cuts You Up”, which entered the US charts. Subsequent records included “Holy Smoke” (1992), “Cascade” (1995), “Dust” (2002), “Ninth” (2011) and “Lion” (2014), the latter also produced by Youth.
Bauhaus reunited for tours in 1998 and again in the mid-2000s, releasing a final studio album, “Go Away White”, in 2008. Murphy has continued solo touring and recording into the 2020s, although a 2025 summer tour for “Silver Shade” was cancelled due to health issues. “Silver Shade”, released on 9 May 2025 via Metropolis Records, is his first studio album in eleven years and includes collaborations with Boy George and Trent Reznor among others.
About Boy George
Boy George (George O’Dowd, born 14 June 1961 in London) is best known as the vocalist of Culture Club, the new wave group he formed with Mikey Craig, Jon Moss and Roy Hay in the early 1980s. The band released hits such as “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”, “Karma Chameleon” and “Church of the Poison Mind”, becoming one of the most recognisable UK pop acts of the decade.
Following Culture Club’s initial split in 1986, Boy George launched a solo career with the album “Sold” (1987), which produced several UK chart singles including “Everything I Own”. Further albums in the late 1980s and 1990s followed, while he also worked as a DJ and songwriter. He has continued to record and tour both with Culture Club reunions and as a solo artist, and more recently has prepared a solo album titled “SE18”, scheduled for release in 2025.
About Juno Reactor
Juno Reactor is a long-running electronic and performance project founded by Ben Watkins in 1990. Initially conceived as an art-driven collaborative platform, it developed a hybrid style that merges electronica, psy-trance, tribal percussion, rock instrumentation and orchestral arrangements. The project’s early discography includes the albums “Transmissions” (1993), “Luciana” (1994), “Beyond the Infinite” (1995) and “Bible of Dreams” (1997), followed by releases such as “Shango” (2000), “Labyrinth” (2004) and “The Mutant Theatre” (2017), several of which were released on Metropolis Records.
Juno Reactor’s music has also been used extensively in film and game soundtracks, including major contributions to the scores of “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” in collaboration with composer Don Davis.
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