Colour By Numbers
Album by Culture Club
Released	October, 1983
Recorded	1983
Genre	New Wave
Length	57:51
Label	Virgin
Producer(s)	Steve Levine
Professional reviews
Robert Christgau (B+) link Rolling Stone RS 407 AMG link
Culture Club chronology
Kissing to Be Clever (1982)	Colour By Numbers (1983)	Waking Up With the House on Fire (1984)

Colour By Numbers is an album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). Featuring a plethora of international hits including the track, "Church of the Poison Mind", and the worldwide number one single "Karma Chameleon". "Karma Chameleon" alone passed one million sales in the United Kingdom, becoming the highest selling and last platinum single of the 1980s (Human League's "Don't You Want Me" and Dexys Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen" were the other two). The album features the vocal talents of Helen Terry alongside Boy George, and chartwise improves upon the successful formula of Culture Club's début album Kissing to Be Clever. album cover Colour By Numbers (1983) by Culture Club This image is the cover of an album or single. ... 33â…“ LP vinyl record for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour album from the 1960s. ... Culture Club was a popular 1980s British pop group, perhaps most noticeable for their gender-bending frontman Boy George. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian, British, Canadian and European popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s born out of the punk rock movement. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Virgin Records is a British recording label founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Robert Christgau (sometimes abbreviated in print to Xgau), born April 18, 1942, is an American essayist, music journalist, and rock critic. ... // History John Lennon - RS 1 (November 9, 1967)How I Won the War Film Still Founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner (who is still editor and publisher) and music critic Ralph J. Gleason, Rolling Stone was initially identified with and reported on the hippie counterculture of the... Description: Rating stars. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... Culture Club was a popular 1980s British pop group, perhaps most noticeable for their gender-bending frontman Boy George. ... Kissing to Be Clever is an album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). ... Waking Up With the House on Fire is an album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian, British, Canadian and European popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s born out of the punk rock movement. ... Culture Club was a popular 1980s British pop group, perhaps most noticeable for their gender-bending frontman Boy George. ... See also: 1982 in music, other events of 1983, 1984 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events The most long-term influential release of 1983 is probably Head over Heels by the Cocteau Twins, which sold poorly upon its initial release. ... General Name, Symbol, Number platinum, Pt, 78 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 6, d Appearance grayish white Atomic mass 195. ... The Human League are an English synthpop band formed in 1977, who, after several changes in line up, achieved great popularity in the 1980s and a limited comeback in the mid-1990s. ... Too-Rye-Ay (1983) Dexys Midnight Runners – the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe [1] – were a British New Wave and Northern Soul band, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. ... Helen Terry (born May 25, 1956) is a British singer who is probably best known for being a backing singer with Culture Club. ... Boy George George Alan ODowd, better known as Boy George, (born June 14, 1961, in London, United Kingdom) is a British singer-songwriter and disc jockey who gained fame with his group Culture Club during the 1980s. ... Kissing to Be Clever is an album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). ...

Track listing

All tracks composed by Culture Club

1. "Karma Chameleon" 4:12
2. "It's a Miracle" 3:25
3. "Black Money" 5:19
4. "Changing Every Day" 3:17
5. "That's the Way (I'm Only Trying to Help You)" 2:46
6. "Church of the Poison Mind" 3:30
7. "Miss Me Blind" 4:29
8. "Mister Man" 3:36
9. "Stormkeeper" 2:49
10. "Victims" 4:53
11. "Man-Shake" 2:34 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)
12. "Mystery Boy" (Suntori Hot Whiskey Song) 3:33 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)
13. "Melting Pot" 4:31 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)
14. "Colour By Numbers" 3:57 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)
15. "Romance Revisited" 5:00 (2003 remastered CD bonus track)

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Personnel

• Boy George - vocals
• Terry Bailey - trumpet
• Mikey Craig - bass guitar
• Roy Hay - guitar, piano, keyboards, sitar, electric sitar
• Julian Lindsay - piano
• Jon Moss - percussion, drums
• Nicky Payne - flute, harmonica, saxophone
• Phil Pickett - keyboards, background vocals
• Steve Grainger - saxophone
• Patrick Seymour - flute
• Helen Terry - vocals
• Graham Broad - percussion
• Trevor Bastow - string arrangements
• Jermaine Stewart - backing vocals

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Production

• Steve Levine - Producer, digital mixing
• Simon Humphrey - Engineer
• Gordon Milne - Engineer
• Tim Young - Mastering
• Jon Moss - Digital mixing
• Mike Ross - String engineer

Charts

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Release details

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External links

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