Colour By Numbers [Remastered] - Culture Club > Reviews

Advantages: Pure, unfussy pop
Disadvantages: Karma Chameleon!

HISTORY ------------- Going through my old vinyl collection I pulled out the first album I ever owned: Culture Club's "Colour By Numbers". This was Boy George & co's second album, the follow up to 1982's "Kissing To Be Clever". Looking back it would have been easy for this album to fall flat on its face after Boy George's sudden appearance on the scene in 1982. The record-buying public are a fickle bunch and an image-led band in a time of image-led ... Read review

Advantages: Some good numbers
Disadvantages: Mostly pap

The most remarkable aspect of Culture Club’s rapid rise to fame was the trasnformation of the group’s lead singer, Boy george, from an emblem of London’s bizarre transsexual demi monde into an all round family favourite. His appeal rapidly took him from the style conscious pages of ID magazine to the cover of Woman. Previously, male pop artists with a penchant for cosmetics and female clothing appealed to a marginal, mainly student audience. their ... Read review