RARE CULTURE CLUB "Colour by Numbers" Platinum Award
  £   117
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£ 117 Sold For
Jun 13, 2010 Sold Date
Jun 8, 2010 Start Date
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Your chance to own a rare one off piece of Culture Club / Boy George memorabilia. "Colour by Numbers" Platinum Award Presented to Culture club manager Tony Gordon for their album going 8 x Platinum in 1984. In great condition!



Colour by Numbers and international acclaim: 1983-1984

The band's second album, Colour by Numbers (UK #1, US #2) was released in 1983. The first single "Church of the Poison Mind", featuring backing vocalist Helen Terry, reached the UK and US Top 10, continuing the group's success.[2] The second single "Karma Chameleon" gave the band its biggest hit, peaking at #1 in the UK (its second chart-topper there), where it sold 1.4 million copies to become the best-selling single of 1983 in that country. It also hit #1 in the US for three weeks, and would ultimately hit #1 in sixteen countries, thus becoming one of the top twenty best-selling singles of the 1980s. The album Colour by Numbers would spawn more hits including "Miss Me Blind" (#5 US), "It's a Miracle" (#4 UK, #13 US), and "Victims" (#3 UK), and sell four million copies in the US and another five million worldwide at its time of release. With that album, Culture Club was the first group in music history to have an album certified diamond in Canada (sales of one million copies in that country). The band also won the 1984 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, where George gave a speech via satellite stating, "Thanks America, you've got style, you've got taste, and you know a good drag queen when you see one."

The group's back-up singer, Helen Terry, began work on her solo album, for which George and Hay wrote the song "Love Lies Lost". The pair also wrote "Passing Friend" for the Beach Boys' album. Culture Club was asked to write two songs for the soundtrack to the movie Electric Dreams. George and Hay wrote "The Dream" and "Love Is Love", with the latter being released as a single in Canada and Japan, the E.P "Love is Love" became a major hit in Japan. George also collaborated on the song "Electric Dreams", sung by P. P. Arnold. The song was written with Phil Pickett (formerly founder member of 70's band, Sailor) who had co-written "Karma Chameleon" and frequently played keyboards for the group.

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