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The album gave Culture Club the distinction of being the first group in music history to have an album certified diamond in Canada (for sales of one million copies in that country). The band also won the 1984 Brit Award for Best Group and the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, where George gave a speech via satellite stating, "Thank you, America.
Culture Club's discography consists of 6 studio albums, 9 compilation albums, 3 box sets, 3 extended plays, 24 regular commercial singles, and 5 promotional singles, largely released during the 1980s and 1990s. Culture Club has sold more than 50 million records worldwide, [1] [2] including 7 million records in the United States. [3]
It was also number one in Australia. In the UK, it was the fifth best-selling single of 1982, selling 882 440 copies. [9] This was Culture Club's first major success, after their first two releases at the Virgin Records label, "White Boy" and "I'm
Another single was released in North America, "I'll Tumble 4 Ya", which became the group's third consecutive top 10 single in the US. This gave Culture Club the distinction of being the first band since The Beatles to have three top 10 hits from a debut album in the US. Kissing to Be Clever was remastered and re-released in 2003 on CD.
A new Culture Club album, Don't Mind If I Do, was released in 1999. In 2006, the band decided to again reunite and tour, but Boy George declined to join them. As a result, two members of Culture Club replaced him with vocalist Sam Butcher. Boy George expressed his displeasure. [33] After only one showcase and one live show, the project was shelved.
"I Just Wanna Be Loved" is the first single from English new wave band Culture Club's fifth album, Don't Mind If I Do (1999). The song was serviced to US radio in August 1998 to promote the band's reformation US tour and the live album and compilation VH1 Storytellers/Greatest Moments, but it failed to generate interest.
The song became the group's sixth hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 4. It reached number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 5 in Canada. The B-side of the 7-inch single is a live rendition of "Love Twist", a song from the group's first album. It was recorded in December 1983.
"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.