Culture Club

   
Artist: Culture Club

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Singles and Remixes

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14


   
 Greatest Moments - Best of Culture Club

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Best of Culture Club

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 16


   
 Colour By Numbers

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 10


   
 Kissing To Be Clever

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 9

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Few new wave groups were as popular as Culture Club. During the early '80s, the mathematical group racked up vII straight Top Ten hits in the U.K. and six Top Ten singles in the U.S. with their wakeful, infectious pop-soul. Though their music was radio-ready, what brought the striation stardom was Boy George, the group's magnetic, transvestitism pencil lead singer. George spruced up in florid dresses and wore heavy makeup, creating a disarmingly androgynous show that created a sensation on early MTV. George also had a bitter wit and ofttimes came up with cutting quips that won Culture Club fleshy media exposure in both America and Britain. Although close aligned with the new romantics -- they were both elysian by Northern soul and fashion -- Culture Club had sharpie pop mother wit than their peers and they consequently had a broader appeal. However, their time in the spot was brief. Not just could they non hold up the changing fashions of MTV, just the mathematical group was fraught with personal tensions, including Boy George's do drugs addiction. By 1986, the group had low up, leaving behind several singles that rank and file as classics of the new wave epoch.


The son of a packing golf-club manager, Boy George (b. George O'Dowd, June 14, 1961), ground himself attracted to the glam rock of T. Rex and David Bowie as a teenager. During the post-punk earned run average of the late '70s, he became a regular at London new romantic clubs. Along with his transvestitism friends Marilyn and Martin Degville (a next member of Sigue Sigue Sputnik), George became well-known around the London underground for his prodigal common sense of style, and Malcolm McLaren invited him to fall in an early adaptation of Bow Wow Wow. George briefly appeared with the band as Lieutenant Lush earlier going to form In Praise of Lemmings with bassist Mikey Craig (b. February 15, 1960). Once guitarist Jon Suede joined the grouping, they changed their name to Sex Gang Children. Within a few months, the band met Jon Moss (b. September 11, 1957), a professional drummer world Health Organization had previously played with Adam & the Ants and the Damned.


By 1981, Boy George had renamed the group Culture Club and Suede had been replaced by Roy Hay (b. August 12, 1961), a late member of Russian Bouquet. Toward the end of the year, they recorded a set of demos for EMI, simply the tag turned them mastered. Early in 1982, the ring landed a contract with Virgin Records, cathartic "White Boy" in the fountain. Neither "Edward D. White Boy" or its reexamination, "I'm Afraid of Me," made the charts just the British music and fashion crusade began linear articles around Boy George. In the accrue, Culture Club released their breakthrough single, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," which rocketed to the top of the charts. Shortly after, the band's debut, Hugging to Be Clever, climbed to number fin on the U.K. charts and the non-LP individual "Time (Clock of the Heart)" reached number three. Early in 1983, Cuddling to Be Clever and "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" began climbing the U.S. charts, with the individual peaking at number two. "Time" reached turn deuce in the U.S. shortly after the non-LP British individual "Church of the Poison Mind," attained the same position in the U.K. "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" became a Top Ten hit in America that summer.


By the time Culture Club's sec album Color By Numbers was released in the accrue of 1983, the band was the about popular pop/rock radical in America and England. "Karma Chameleon" became a number one hit on both sides of the Atlantic, spell the album reached numeral one in the U.K. and number two in the U.S. Throughout 1984, the group racked up hits, with "It's a Miracle" and "Miss Me Blind" reaching the Top Ten. In the accrue, the grouping returned with its third album, Waking Up With the House on Fire. While "The War Song" reached number deuce in the U.K., the album was a disappointment in America, stalling at pt; its herald went quadruple pt.


Following a brief go in February, Culture Club went on suspension for 1985, with Craig, Moss, and Hay pursuing extracurricular musical projects in the lag. During the year, Boy George -- wHO had previously denounced drugs in public -- became addicted to diacetylmorphine. Furthermore, his latinian language with Moss, which had constantly been jolting, began to decompose. All of these problems were kept hidden, only it became patent that something was incorrect when Culture Club returned to action at law in the spring of 1986. Though their comeback individual, "Be active Away," became a strike in April, its sequent album From Luxury to Heartache stayed on the charts for merely a few months. Rumors of George's diacetylmorphine addiction began to circulate, and by the summertime, he proclaimed that he was indeed addicted to the drug. In July, he was arrested by the British law for possession of cannabis. Several years by and by, keyboardist Michael Rudetski, wHO played on From Luxury to Heartache, was launch dead of a heroin o.d. in George's plate. Rudetski's parents unsuccessfully tested to entreat wrongful death charges on Boy George.


Patch Boy George was battling diacetylmorphine addiction, and his subsequent dependence on prescription narcotics, Culture Club broke up. George confirmed the group's disbandment in the spring of 1987, and he began a solo life history later that yr. While his solo career produced several dance hits in Europe, George didn't country an American strike until 1992, when his embrace of Dave Berry's "The Crying Game" was featured in the Academy Award-nominated photographic film of the same diagnose. In 1995, George published his autobiography, Take It Like a Man. Culture Club reunited in 1998, issuance the two-disc set VH1 Storytellers/Greatest Hits.