Gonna tell me kids Culture Club have reunited
Gustaph's serving that Boy George tribute look!
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RPM Weekly, showing the Top 100 albums in Canada for the week of 10 March, 1984.
You can tell the 2nd British Invasion of the charts was in full swing: Culture Club, Pretenders, Eurythmics, UB40, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Police, The The, Spandau Ballet, Queen, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney... many bands with more than one album in the top 50!
More about RPM, the Canadian charts and even the Junos:
#music history#rock music history#1980s#I found these on the Library & Archives website and it's cool they're a cool website#Culture Club#Pretenders#Eurythmics#UB40#Duran Duran#Billy Idol#Police#The The#Spandau Ballet#Queen#David Bowie#Rolling Stones#Elton John#Paul McCartney#rock music#classic rock#(ugh to imagine that post-punk/new wave stuff has probably reached a point in time where it can be called 'classic rock'...#they call Nirvana 'classic rock' these days it's like my guy.#Also the idea of calling The The's Soul Mining classic rock...)#SOUL MINING IN THE TOP 25 BY THE WAY#WHAT A CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED ALBUM ALSO#(which is how I came across this anyway. Guess who has listened to Soul Mining twice already today?)#British music#Canada#UK music#music
Listen, whatever the context, you've just got to love Boy George. You have to.
(Context)
RPM Weekly, showing the Top 100 albums in Canada for the week of 10 March, 1984.
You can tell the 2nd British Invasion of the charts was in full swing: Culture Club, Pretenders, Eurythmics, UB40, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Police, The The, Spandau Ballet, Queen, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney... many bands with more than one album in the top 50!
#music history#rock music history#1980s#I found these on the Library & Archives website and it's cool they're a cool website#Culture Club#Pretenders#Eurythmics#UB40#Duran Duran#Billy Idol#Police#The The#Spandau Ballet#Queen#David Bowie#Rolling Stones#Elton John#Paul McCartney#rock music#classic rock#(ugh to imagine that post-punk/new wave stuff has probably reached a point in time where it can be called 'classic rock'...#they call Nirvana 'classic rock' these days it's like my guy.#Also the idea of calling The The's Soul Mining classic rock...)#SOUL MINING IN THE TOP 25 BY THE WAY#WHAT A CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED ALBUM ALSO#(which is how I came across this anyway. Guess who has listened to Soul Mining twice already today?)#British music#Canada#UK music#music
A legend
[ID: A tweet from New Romantic musician, singer and frontman of Culture Club, Boy George, saying, "Homophobes are obsessed with me!"]
If they've been staying mad for the last 40 years, you've won, you icon.