Culture Club: Karma Chameleon - On Solid Gold - 1983 (My "Stereo Studio Sound" Re-Edit)

Culture Club: Karma Chameleon - On Solid Gold - 1983 (My "Stereo Studio Sound" Re-Edit)

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"Karma Chameleon" is a song by English band Culture Club, featured on the group's 1983 album Color by Numbers. The single was released in the United Kingdom in September 1983 and became the second Culture Club single to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart, after "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me". The record stayed at number one for six weeks and became the UK's biggest-selling single of the year 1983, selling 1.39 million copies (according to Official chart by Gallup 1983 and according to BPI UK platinum certificate October 1983). To date, it is the 38th-biggest-selling single of all time in the UK, selling over 1.52 million copies.

It also spent three weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984, becoming the group's biggest hit and only US number-one single among their many top-10 hits. The single sold over 7 million copies globally. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's ninth favorite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.

In an interview, Culture Club frontman Boy George explained: "The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. It's about trying to suck up to everybody. Basically, if you aren't true, if you don't act like you feel, then you get Karma-justice, that's nature's way of paying you back." In response to claims from singer-songwriter Jimmy Jones that the song plagiarizes his hit "Handy Man", George stated, "I might have heard it once, but it certainly wasn't something I sat down and said, 'Yeah, I want to copy this.'" In an interview with 60 Minutes Australia, Boy George said that he wrote the song while he was on vacation in Egypt, and that the other members of Culture Club were initially hesitant to record it as they felt it sounded like a country song.

The harmonica part was played by Judd Lander, who had been a member of Merseybeat group The Hideaways in the 1960s. The song was originally to be called "Cameo Chameleon"; the band was recorded in interviews in mid-1983 stating this was to be the title of their next single. "Karma Chameleon" is written in the key of B♭ major.

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