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Culture Club are an
English band that were formed in
1981.
The band comprised
Boy George (lead vocals),
Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards),
Mikey Craig (bass guitar) and
Jon Moss (drums and percussion). Their second
album,
Colour by Numbers, sold more than
10 million copies worldwide. It has been certified triple platinum in the UK and quadruple platinum in the US. It was ranked No. 96 on
Rolling Stone magazine's list of the
100 Best Albums of the
1980s and is also included in the book
1001 Albums You Must
Hear Before You Die.
The band had several international hits with songs such as "
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "
Time (
Clock of the
Heart)", "
I'll Tumble 4 Ya", "
Church of the Poison Mind", "
Karma Chameleon", "
Miss Me Blind", "
Victims", "
It's a Miracle", "
The War Song", "
Move Away", and "
I Just Wanna Be Loved". Boy George's androgynous style of dressing caught the attention of the public and the media. The group, supporters of the synth pop genre, made numerous forays into reggae and showed a strong propensity for the subgenre of ballads. They are considered one of the most representative and influential groups of the eighties. They have sold more than 50 million records. Ten of their
singles reached the
US Top 40, where they are associated with the
Second British Invasion of
British new wave groups that became popular in the
United States due to the cable music channel
MTV. Culture Club's music combines British new wave and
American soul with
Jamaican reggae and also other styles such as calypso, salsa or country.[
1][2]
In
1984, Culture Club won the
Brit Award for Best
British Group,[3] the
Grammy Award for
Best New Artist, and Best British
Single ("Karma Chameleon"). They were nominated the same year for the Grammy Award for
Pop Vocal by Group or Duo but the
English rock band
The Police won the award. The band were also nominated for a
Canadian Juno Award for
International Album of the Year. In
January 1985, Culture Club were nominated for an
American Music Award for
Favorite Pop/
Rock Band/Duo/Group
Video Artist, and in
September 1985, they were nominated for two
MTV Video Music Awards for
Best Special Effects and
Best Art Direction for their video "It's a Miracle". In
1987, they received another nomination for an American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group Video Artist[4] In the UK they amassed twelve
Top 40 hit singles between
1982–
1999, including the number ones "Do You Really
Want To Hurt Me" and "Karma Chameleon", the latter being the biggest selling single of
1983, and topped the
US Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. "Time (Clock of the Heart)" has been included on the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of
500 songs that shaped rock and roll.
Culture Club's sound combines British new wave and American soul with Jamaican reggae and also other styles as calypso, salsa or country.[1][2][30][31][32][33]
Philadelphia Daily News described Culture Club as a hot new rock act, while
William K Knoedelseder Jr from
Los Angeles Times said about the group, "Boy George of Culture Club, a rock group MTV helped make popular", adding that, "There's some debate in the record industry about MTV's ability to directly increase record sales across the board but there's no doubt that the channel has been responsible for exposing such rock artists as
Def Leppard,
Duran Duran and
Men at Work to a national audience
..."[34][35]
In the 1980s, Boy George said about the music style of his band Culture Club, "We play rock 'n' roll and I love rock 'n' roll music but I don't like the lifestyle. I don't like people tipping beer over their heads.... I just hate rock 'n' roll in that way.
It's disgusting and boring. I look at what we're doing as very intelligent."[36]
Stephen Holden, music critic for
The New York Times, said in his article
Rock: British Culture Club, that "Culture Club blends soul, rock, funk, reggae and salsa into a music that programmatically reconciles white, black and
Latin styles", adding that, "
Mr. O'Dowd made the group's best songs – the Motown-flavoured Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and the Latin-inflected dance tune I'll Tumble 4 Ya – shine like jewels."[37]
Star-News considered Culture Club as a 'new rock' band of the 1980s; the newspaper said, "Now you see the more rhythm-oriented, 'new rock of the 80s,' like Culture Club and the
Eurythmics, fitting in more easily with urban contemporary formats."
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