#68: The War Song by the Culture Club

City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CKOI
Peak Month: November 1984
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #1
Peak position in Vancouver ~ #15
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #17
Peak Position on Ireland Singles chart ~ #1
Peak Position on Australian Singles chart ~ #2
Peak Position on UK Singles chart ~ #2
Peak Position on Belgian Singles chart ~ #4
Peak Position on Spain Singles chart ~ #4
YouTube: “The War Song”
Lyrics: “The War Song”

The Culture Club are an English new wave band formed in 1981. Led by singer and frontman Boy George, whose androgynous style of dressing caught the attention of the public and the media in the early 1980s, the band have sold more than 50 million records. Its original lineup consisted of Boy George, Mikey Craig, Roy Hay, Jon Moss, and added Phil Pickett and Helen Terry in 1982. George Alan O’Dowd was born in 1961 in Greater London. His father, Jerry O’Dowd, was physically and and mentally abusive and beat his wife when she was pregnant with George. In 1980, he was a member of the new wave band Bow Wow Wow. He left the band within a year and formed a new band initially named the Sex Gang Children.
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