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Boy George | Culture Club | From Luxury To Heartache Album (Megamix)

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Uploaded by on Jan 2, 2012

This is The Album Megamix I created for the Culture Club's 1985-86 album 'From Luxury To Heartache'. It was uploaded on my previously terminated channel 'boygeorgebaby84'. Enjoy!

Other Culture Club Megamixes:
'Kissing To Be Clever' 1982 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xr-Dj1Z8LQ&feature=channel_video_title
'Colour By Numbers' 1983 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDNd_LjbMMA
'Waking Up With The House On Fire' 1984 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd28_XuM8NQ

From Luxury to Heartache is the fourth album by New Wave band Culture Club, released in 1986. From Luxury to Heartache was a deliberate departure for Culture Club, a move away from the reggae-flavoured pop of their previous releases into dance-oriented music. Veteran pop and R&B producer Arif Mardin, replaced Steve Levine, in a bid to revitalise the band's sound. Due to lead singer Boy George's growing addiction to drugs, recordings dragged on for so long that Mardin had to disband the sessions and leave it up to engineer Lew Hahn to record the final vocals. Songs like "Gusto Blusto" and "Reasons" took days for the addicted singer to finish.
Following the release of the album, rumours of George's heroin addiction began to circulate in the tabloids, and by the summer of 1986, he announced that he was indeed addicted to drugs. In July, he was arrested by the British police for possession of cannabis. Several days later, keyboardist Michael Rudetsky, who played on the album and had co-written "Sexuality" with George, was found dead of a heroin overdose in George's home.
Despite selling a little less than a million records worldwide and chart success with the opening track "Move Away", Boy George decided for a solo career within a year of the album's release. "God Thank You Woman" was the second single in UK but only reached #31 in the chart while in the US "Gusto Blusto" was chosen, but didn't chart. A third UK single, "Come Clean"/"Heaven's Children" was planned to be released in July, but was cancelled. The band reformed in 1990 and in 1998.
"From Luxury to Heartache" was never issued on CD in the United States.

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  • one of the best culture club album which was underestimated and released in bad times for boy george unfortunately, i was shocked when you mentioned theat come clean and heaven's children was planned to be released because they were one of my favorite songs of cc and how i wish they get released and how i wish now george would sing them live in his recent gigs with cc. thansk a lot boygeorgeforever for posting such great rare videos for cc and bg.

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