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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 [8] 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.
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 .
"Church of the Poison Mind" reached its peak position the same week "Karma Chameleon" debuted on the US chart. In many countries its B-side was the heavily percussive street song "Man Shake" and in some others, such as the United States, it was the song "Mystery Boy".
"Karma Chameleon" Culture Club: 11 "Missing You" John Waite: 12 "All Night Long (All Night)" Lionel Richie: 13 "Let's Hear It for the Boy" Deniece Williams: 14 "Dancing in the Dark" Bruce Springsteen: 15 "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" Cyndi Lauper: 16 "The Reflex" Duran Duran: 17 "Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper: 18 "Jump (For My Love)" 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]
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"Victims" is a song by English band Culture Club, released as a single in 1983 and taken from the album Colour by Numbers. 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.