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"Cult of Personality" is a song by American rock band Living Colour, featured as the opening track and second single from their debut studio album Vivid (1988). The song was released in 1988, and reached No. 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 9 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
Personality" is a popular song with lyrics by Johnny Burke and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. It was written for the 1946 film Road to Utopia , and Dorothy Lamour performed it in the movie. [ 1 ] Van Heusen said that he wrote the song with a limited vocal range to accommodate Lamour.
"Personality" is a 1959 song with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price. It was released as a single by Price, [2] and became one of Lloyd Price's most popular crossover hits. The single reached number 2 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, kept from the number 1 spot by "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton. [3]
The title is a reference to the often-mistranslated quotation: "When I hear the word 'culture', that's when I reach for my revolver"—the actual quote from Hanns Johst is "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!" This translates as: "Whenever I hear [the word] 'culture'... I remove the safety from my Browning!"
The song became the group's sixth top-five hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number four. [4] It reached number thirteen on the US Billboard Hot 100. [5] and number 16 on the Canadian RPM chart. [6] It also reached number eight on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart [7] and number two on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart. [8]
Kissing to Be Clever is the debut album by the English band Culture Club, released on 8 October 1982 in the United Kingdom. [2] It includes Culture Club's international breakthrough hit single, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", which reached number one in the band's native UK and the top 10 of many charts around the world.
The lyrics and delivery were notably more aggressive than was common at the time, often with growled or shouted vocals that dissolved into incoherent screaming. [21] They ranged from crude one-chord music (like the Seeds) to near-studio musician quality (including the Knickerbockers, the Remains, and the Fifth Estate).
"Miss Me Blind" is a song by English new wave band Culture Club. Known for a guitar solo midway through the song [citation needed], it was the third single released from the album Colour by Numbers in North America, peaking at number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in spring 1984. [2]