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CULTURE CLUB
London, GB
* 1981

Line-Up (2023):

Boy George - voc
Roy Hay - g,kb
Michael Craig - bg

Former Members:

Helen Terry (voc, 7/83-8/84)
John Suede (g, 1981)
Jon Moss (ds, 1981-87, 1998-cca 11/99, 8/14-9/18)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Kissing To Be Clever	01.10.1982	Virgin		5	10
2.	Colour By Numbers	10.10.1983	Virgin		1	2
3.	Waking Up With A House On Fire produced by: Steve Levine	22.10.1984	Virgin		2	26
4.	From Luxury To Heartache	4/1986	Virgin		10	32
5.	This Time - Culture Club - The First Four Tears	4/1987	Virgin		8
6.	The Best Of Culture Club	9/1989	V.I.P.
7.	Spin Dazzle	1992
8.	At Worst ... The Best Of Culture Club	9/1993	Virgin		24	169
9.	The Devil In Sister George & Boy George & Jesus Loves You	3/1994			26
10.	The 12 Inch Mixes Plus	12/1994	Virgin
11.	Greatest Moments (2CD)	09.11.1998	Virgin		15	148
12.	Don't Mind If I Do	11/1999			64
13.	Culture Club (4CD box set)	28.01.2003	Virgin
14.	Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2002	18.03.2003
15.	12" Mixes Plus	24.06.2003	Music for Pleasure
16.	River Sessions	07.06.2005	River
17.	Greatest Hits	21.06.2005	Virgin
18.	Culture Club 2005: Singles and Remixes	27.09.2005	EMI
19.	Rock Breakout Years: 1983	11.10.2005	Madacy
20.	Platinum	24.06.2008	EMD
21.	Culture Club Greatest Hits (2CD)	27.08.2010	Virgin
22.	Miss Me Blind: Greatest Hits Live!	09.08.2011	Fuel 2000
23.	Essential	27.10.2011	EMI Gold
24.	The Hits Collection (2CD)	25.02.2012	Music Club Deluxe
25.	10 Great Songs	03.04.2012	Virgin
26.	Icon	14.05.2013	Capitol
27.	Life	26.10.2018	BMG		12

Boy George:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Sold	6/1987	Virgin		29	145
2.	No Clause 28	7/1988
3.	Tense Nervous Headache	10/1988	Virgin
4.	Boy Friend	1989
5.	High Hat	3/1989				126
6.	The Devil In Sister George & Culture Club & Jesus Loves You	3/1994			26
7.	Cheapness And Beauty	22.05.1995	Virgin		44
8.	Dance Nation 2 & Pete Tong (2LP)	29.07.1996	Ministry Of Sound
9.	Unrecoupable One Man Bandit	17.05.1999	Black Door
10.	Essential Mix	2/2001	London/Sire
11.	Lucky For Some	20.11.2001	J-Bird
12.	Classic Masters	29.01.2002	EMD
13.	Night Out	25.06.2002	Moonshine
14.	Night In	08.10.2002	Moonshine Music
15.	Ordinary Alien - The Kinky Roland Files	31.01.2011	Decode
16.	This Is What I Do	28.10.2013	Very Me		33

Helen Terry:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Blue Notes	1986

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	White Boy / Love Twist	07.05.1982	Virgin
2.	I'm Afraid Of Me / Murder Rap Trap	6/1982	Virgin
3.	Do You Really Want To Hurt Me 12" + Love Is Gold (You Were Never So Good)	03.09.1982	Virgin	1
4.	Time (A Clock Of The Heart) / White Boys Can't Control It	19.11.1982	Virgin	2	2
5.	Do You Really Want To Hurt Me / You Know I'm Not Crazy 12" + Love Is Gold (You Were Never So Good)	11/1982	Epic		1
6.	Church Of The Poison Mind / Man Shake 12" + Mystery Boy	01.04.1983	Virgin	2	10
7.	I'll Tumble 4 Ya / Mystery Boy 12" + Man Shake	6/1983	Epic		8
8.	Karma Chameleon / That's The Way 12" + I'll Tumble 4 Ya	05.09.1983	Virgin	1	1
9.	Victims / Colour By Numbers 12" + Romance Revisited	28.11.1983	Virgin	2
10.	Miss Me Blind / Colour By Numbers	2/1984	Epic		5
11.	It's A Miracle / Love Twist (live) 12" + Miss Me Blind	12.03.1984	Virgin	4	13
12.	The War Song / La Cancion De Guerra 12" + The War Song (Ultimate Dance Mix) / The War Song (Shriek Mix)	24.09.1984	Virgin	1	17
13.	The Medal Song / Don't Go Down That Street	19.11.1984	Virgin	26
14.	Mistake No. 3 / Don't Go Down That Street	11/1984	Epic		33
15.	Love Is Love	4/1985
16.	Move Away / Sexuality	3/1986	Virgin	5	12
17.	God Thank You Woman / From Luxury To Heartache	5/1986	Virgin	24
18.	Church Of The Poison Mind / Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (v USA)	1988	Epic
19.	Karma Chameleon / It's A Miracle 12" + Miss Me Blind	11/1988	Virgin
20.	Do You Really Want To Hurt Me / I'll Tumble 4 Ya 12" + Time (A Clock Of The Heart)	11/1988	Old Gold
21.	I Just Want To Be Loved / Do You Really Want To Hurt Me	19.10.1998	Virgin	4
22.	Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Quivver remix & dub)	09.11.1998	Virgin
23.	Your Kisses Are Charity	8/1999
24.	Cold Shoulder	11/1999		43
25.	Karma Chameleon / That's The Way (reissue)	28.10.2013	UMC
26.	Let Somebody Love You	31.07.2018	BMG Rights
27.	Runaway Train feat. Gladys Knight	6/2019	BMG Rights

Boy George:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Everything I Own / Use Me	2/1987	Virgin	1
2.	Keep Me In Mind / State Of Love 12" + Everything I Own	5/1987	Virgin	19
3.	Sold / Are You Too Afraid? 12" + Everything I Own (go-go mix)	7/1987	Virgin	15
4.	To Be Reborn / Where Are You Now	10/1987	Virgin	10
5.	Live My Life / Live My Life (soul remix)	12/1987	Virgin	62	40
6.	No Clause 28	6/1988	Virgin	57
7.	Don't Cry / Leave In Love CD + Boy Called Alice	9/1988	Virgin	60
8.	Don't Take My Mind On The Trip / Girlfriend 12",CD + I Go Where I Go	2/1989	Virgin	68
9.	Whether They Like It Or Not	6/1989
10.	The Crying Game / I Specialize In Loneliness produced by: Pet Shop Boys	07.09.1992	Spaghetti	12	15
11.	More Than Likely / When It's Raining Cats And Dogs & PM Dawn	03.05.1993	Gee Street
	CD + You, Me, The Vide Electric / Fly Me To The Moon / Frostbite	10.05.1993	Gee Street
12.	The Devil In Sister George EP (Miss Me Blind / Generations Of Love / Am I Losing Control / Love Hurts / Everything I Own)	21.02.1994	Virgin	22
13.	Funtime / Genocide Peroxide	20.03.1995	Virgin	45
14.	Il Adore / These Boots Are Made For Walking CD1 + Sad CD2 + Cheapness And Beauty	19.06.1995	Virgin	50
15.	Same Thing In Reverse	9/1995	Virgin	56
16.	Sad / Satan's Butterfly Ball	25.03.1996	More Protein
17.	Love Is Leaving	12.05.1997	Epidrome/Epic
18.	When Will You Learn	22.06.1998	Epidrome/Epic
19.	Police And Thieves & Dubversive & Mica Paris	02.03.1998	Crystal
	Police And Thieves (club mixes) & Dubversive	07.09.1998	Finetune
20.	Your Kisses Are Charity	26.07.1999	Virgin	25
21.	Auto-Erotic & Dark Globe	04.03.2002	Whole Nine Yards
22.	Run & Sash!	09.09.2002	X-It
	Run (Boy George's "Kinky's Wind 142" vocal remix & "6 AM" vocal remix) & Sash!	16.09.2002	X-It
23.	Generations Of Love 2003 & Brother Brown	03.02.2003
24.	Psychology Of A Dreamer & Eddie Lock	19.05.2003	Alpha Plus
25.	Time Machine & Amanda Ghost	05.02.2007
26.	Atoms (Henrik Schwarz remix, Deadly Avenger remix, Ariya remix, Dark Globe Flight Delay mix) & Dark Globe	03.12.2007	Global Underground
27.	Belgian House Mafia Sampler 001 (Ole (extended mix) / Generations Of Love 2008 (PI Firewall mix) / Move For Me (extended mix) / Work That Body (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike remix)) & Kaskade & Deadmau5 & Dave Lambert & Housetrap & John Revox & Phunk Investigation	03.11.2008	Belgian House Mafia
28.	Amazing Grace	22.03.2010	Decode
29.	Somebody To Love Me & Andrew Wyatt & Mark Ronson & The Business Intl	26.11.2010	Columbia	55
30.	Turn 2 Dust / Go Your Own Way	12.10.2011	Decode
31.	Everything I Own / Use Me (reissue)	31.10.2013	UMC
32.	Symphony Of You & Pete Tong & Her-O	11/2019	Universal
33.	Let Me Down & The Lottery Winners	29.03.2023	Modern Sky
34.	Religion	19.02.2024
35.	Let The Flowers Grow & Peter Murphy	11.11.2024

Helen Terry:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Love Lies Lost / Laughter On My Mind 12" + Love Lies Lost Dub Mix produced by: Steve Levine	30.04.1984		34
2.	Stuttering / Stuttering (instrumental) produced by: Don Was	01.10.1984		84
3.	One Sunny Day & Ray Parker Jr.	2/1986			96

Videos:

1. A Kiss Across The Ocean - 18.4.1984, Virgin Video, live, 60 min
2. Culture Club Greatest Hits - 27.8.2010, Virgin, compilation

Bibliography:

Kasper de Graaf, Malcolm Garret: When Cameras Go Crazy (9/1983, Virgin, biografie)
Boy George: Take It Like A Man (4/1995, autobiography)

Awards:

1982 Melody Maker Readers' Poll - Brightest Hope
1983 Melody Maker Chart Single Of The Year No. 2 ("Karma Chameleon")
1983 Melody Maker Top Single Artist
1983 British Record Industry Awards - Best Group
1983 Grammy Awards - Best New Artist
1983 Melody Maker Readers' Poll - Best Single ("Karma Chameleon")
1983 Ivor Novello Awards - Best Pop Song ("Karma Chameleon")
1984 Brit Awards

- Best British Group
- Best British Single ("Karma Chameleon")

Various:

disbanded 1987
reunited 1998
reunited 8/2014

Compilation Appearances:

"The Dream" / "Love Is Love" on OST "Electric Dreams" (3.8.84, Virgin)

Boy George:

produced by SP:

Deja Vu: Deja Vu (24.4.95, Cowboy)

appeared on the LP:

Antony And The Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now (1.2.05, Secretly Canadian)
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl: Record Collection (28.9.10, RCA)
The Lottery Winners: Anxiety Replacement Therapy (28.4.23, Modern Sky)

Compilation Appearances:

"My Sweet Lord" on compilation "Ruby Tracks The NME's Roaring Forty" (11/92, Forty/NME)

16.1.2009 sentenced to 15 months in jail for false imprisonment

Awards:

1982 Melody Maker Readers' Poll

- Poser
- Best Female Singer #3 (!)

1983 Melody Maker Readers' Poll

- Personality Of '83
- Male Singer

Helen Terry:

appeared on the LP:

Culture Club: Waking Up With A House On Fire (10/84, Virgin)

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1982	19	08.05.1982	23	Singles	single review
1982	28	10.07.1982	18	Caught In The Act	gig review
1982	36	04.09.1982	19	Singles	single review
1982	39	25.09.1982	35	Datelines
1982	41	09.10.1982	21	Albums	album review
1982	43	23.10.1982	29	Caught In The Act	gig review
1982	46	13.11.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	46	13.11.1982	29	Caught In The Act	gig review
1982	47	20.11.1982	23	Singles	single review
1983	13	26.03.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	14	02.04.1983	15	It's Alive	gig review
1983	14	02.04.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	32	06.08.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	36	03.09.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	37	10.09.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	38	17.09.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	38	17.09.1983	16	It's Alive	gig review
1983	39	24.09.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	40	01.10.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	40	01.10.1983	19	It's Alive	gig review
1983	41	08.10.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	41	08.10.1983	25	Outer Limits
1983	42	15.10.1983	29	Albums	album review
1983	45	05.11.1983	23	It's Alive	gig review
1983	47	19.11.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	49	03.12.1983	24		interview
1983	49	03.12.1983	27	Singles	single review
1984	1	07.01.1984	15	It's Alive	gig review
1984	10	10.03.1984	4	Fast Forward
1984	11	17.03.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	11	17.03.1984	26	Singles	single review
1984	14	07.04.1984	31	Video
1984	15	14.04.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	15	14.04.1984	30	Video
1984	24	28.07.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	25	04.08.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	30	08.09.1984	4	Fast Forward
1984	32	22.09.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	33	29.09.1984	27	Singles	single review
1984	34	06.10.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	36	20.10.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	36	20.10.1984	33	High Definition
1984	37	27.10.1984	27	Albums	album review
1984	40	17.11.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	45	22.12.1984	29	It's Alive	gig review
1996	17	27.04.1996	56		single review
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1998	12		112	Recenze - Atd.	album review
1998	12		115	Recenze - Singly	single review
1999	10		113	Recenze - Singly	single review
1999	12		12	Pelmel
2000	3		29		profile, interview, discography