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"Karma Chameleon" is a song by English band Culture Club, featured on the group's 1983 album Colour by Numbers. The single was released in the United Kingdom in September 1983 [7] and became the second Culture Club single to reach the top of the UK singles chart, after "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me".
Colour by Numbers is the second album by the British new wave group Culture Club, released in October 1983.Preceded by the hit single "Karma Chameleon", which reached number one in several countries, the album reached number one in the UK and has sold 10 million copies.
The song reached #2 in the United Kingdom, being kept out of the top spot by David Bowie's "Let's Dance". [2] It was also the band's fourth Top 10 hit in Canada and the United States. In America, it was still climbing the charts when "Karma Chameleon" was released as a single. Epic Records released"Karma" ahead of schedule. "Church of the ...
Culture Club were accused of plagiarizing their 1983 hit "Karma Chameleon" from "Handy Man", for its apparent lifting of the "Comma, Comma" section.Culture Club frontman Boy George has denied consciously plagiarizing the song: "I might have heard it once, but it certainly wasn't something I sat down and said, 'Yeah, I want to copy this.'" [12]
In Australia, it was released in September 1983 as a double A-side single with "Karma Chameleon", peaking at #1 and receiving substantial airplay. With this single, in America, Culture Club was the first band to have three top 10 singles from a debut album since the Beatles .
Philip Stuart Pickett (born 19 November 1946) is an English songwriter, musician, vocal arranger, producer and artist manager.. He is principally known as a songwriter and musician and for co-writing and recording "Karma Chameleon", one of the biggest hits of the 1980s era with Boy George and Culture Club during his tenure as keyboard player and backing vocalist for the group on every live ...
As with most early Culture Club singles, the song is about lead singer Boy George's then publicly unknown and rather turbulent relationship with drummer Jon Moss. Although the group's previous single " Karma Chameleon " had been a massive hit throughout the world, "Victims" was only issued in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Australia.
Prince had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "When Doves Cry", the number one hit of the year, and "Let's Go Crazy" at number 21. Lionel Richie had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1984. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1984. [1]