I keep getting Emails from people asking me to re-upload the links and music etc. I think people are just getting to those particular pages so are not reading the reason for the dead links.
So I am putting this in place so hopefully people will read it and stop Emailing me about it.
The reason the links are dead is that my account with Media Fire has been closed with all 11,000 files lost. That is why you can not download the things and No I can not re-upload them.
Eventually I will start doing that again when I have found something suitable. In the meantime this blog will be information only blog.
Thank you all
Michaael
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In the US 'Gusto Blusto' was chosen as the second single released from Culture Clubs 1986 album 'From Luxury To Heartache'.
The song failed to chart and a music video was never made for the song.
'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.
Click the link below to downlaod the following: Fan Made Video Rock Mix Extended Dance Mix
This is an interview on the Sydney Breakfast TV on the 15th November 2011. They are talking about the new Album and Tour for next year and playiing at Sydney on New Years Eve with other bands including Pet Shop Boys.
Tour dates have not been anounced yet.
Just wanted to share this with you all.
Interview on Sydney Breakfast TV - 15th November 2011
I thought I would start posting some of the Live performances that I have collected over the years.
First up is by Culture Club.
They performed Live At The Capitol Theatre Passaic New Jersey USA on the 3rd September 1983.
The set list of the show is as follows: 01 - Intro 02 - Take Control 03 - Mr. Men 04 - I'll tumble For Ya 05 - It's A Miracle 06 - Karma Chameleon 07 - Black Money 08 - Love Twist 09 - Do You Really Want To hurt Me 10 - I'm Afraid Of Me 11 - Stormkeeper 12 - Miss Me Blind 13 - Church Of The Poison Mind 14 - Victims 15 - Time (Clock Of The Heart) 16 - White Boy 17 - That's The Way (I'm Only Trying To Help) 18 - Melting Pot
'God Thank You Woman' was the second single realeased in the UK from Culture Club's 1986 album 'From Luxury To Hearache'.
The single peaked at number 31 in the UK Singles Chart and number 48 in Australia.
The single was never released in the US as 'Gusto Blusto' was choosen to be released instead.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version ExtendedVersion From Luxury To Heartache - B-Side From Luxury To Heartache - It's All Her Fault Mix
'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me' is a song recorded by Culture Club and was released as a single from the album 'Kissing to Be Clever'. Throughout the years, the song has been covered by many artists.
The third single from the band, the sweet Lovers' Rock style proved their commercial breakthrough. Initially picked up by BBC Radio 2 the song became a major hit after their memorable debut performance on Top of the Pops, which they got thanks to Shakin' Stevens being ill and not able to appear, leading the song to become a UK number 1 single for three weeks in October 1982. The song was their breakthrough in America, too, and it reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in March 1983. It was also number 1 in Australia and more than twenty countries worldwide.
Originally, its B-side in many countries was a dub version of the song. In USA, it was the song 'You Know I'm Not Crazy'. On the 12 inch, an additional b-side was the track 'Love Is Cold (You Were Never No Good)'.
It was the song that put the name Culture Club on the worldwide map. It was also their first single in United States and Canada.
In the video for this song, lead singer Boy George wears a shirt bearing approximately the Hebrew words for "Culture Club" (the shirt actual meaning is "תרבות אגדה" Hebrew for "culture legend"). Mikey Craig was not in the video, he was replaced by his brother Greg.
The song was remixed a couple of times. It was remixed by different DJ, like Quivver and Kinky Roland, around 1998, to promote a Culture Club compilation called "Greatest Moments" and the single 'I Just Wanna Be Loved'. It was also remixed and presented in different remixes on Culture Club's 2002 Box Set. The original demo version, without the bridge, was also included on this boxset.
Re-released in a reggaeton remix in France, it was again a top 20 hit in the summer of 2005.
Click the link below to download the following: Video TOTP Performance Single Version Drumheads Twisted Nerve Mix TMS-PMS Mix Deep Dish Quivvers Mix Kinky Disco Mix DJ Lbr's Ragga Mix Dub Version Full-Length EMI Demo
In 1981, Boy George occasionally sang with the group Bow Wow Wow under the stage name "Lieutenant Lush". However, his popularity in this role caused friction with the group's actual lead singer, Annabella Lwin.
After his tenure with the group, George decided to start his own band and enlisted Mikey Craig. Next came Jon Moss, and finally Roy Hay. The group recorded demos, which were paid for by EMI Records, but the label was unimpressed and decided not to sign the group. Virgin Records heard the demos and signed the group in the UK, and Epic Records released their albums in the US as Virgin did not have a U.S. presence at the time.
1982 saw the band release of their first single 'White Boy'. Although the song failed to reach the US or UK Top 100, George was still happy because "5000 people bought my song and didn't even know me".
Click the link below to download the following: Single Verson Demo Version 7 inch Mix Extended Dance Mix Love Twist - B-Side
Band Aid were a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' for the Christmas market. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Two subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts.
The original was produced by Midge Ure. The 12" version was mixed by Trevor Horn. The name 'Band Aid' was chosen as a pun on the name of a well known brand of adhesive bandage, also referring to musicians working as a band to provide aid and alluding to the fact that any help stemming from their efforts is likened to a band-aid on a very serious wound. The group has formed on three occasions, each time from the most successful British and Irish pop music performers of the time, to record the same song at the same time of year.
The original 1984 Feed The World logo was based on a pencil sketch by Bob Geldof after watching a BBC television news report by Michael Buerk from famine-stricken Ethiopia. Geldof was so moved by the plight of starving children that he decided to try and raise money using his contacts in pop music. Geldof enlisted the help of Midge Ure, from the group Ultravox, to help produce a charity record.
Ure took Geldof's lyrics, and created the melody and backing track for the record. Geldof called many of the most popular British and Irish performers of the time (Kool & The Gang and Jody Watley were the only Americans present at the original recording), persuading them to give their time free. His one criterion for selection was how famous they were, in order to maximise sales of the record. He then kept an appointment to appear on a show on BBC Radio 1, with Richard Skinner, but instead of promoting the new Boomtown Rats material as planned, he announced the plan for Band Aid.
The recording studio gave Band Aid no more than 24 free hours to record and mix the record, on 25 November 1984. The recording took place between 11am and 7pm, and was filmed by director Nigel Dick to be released as the pop video though some basic tracks had been recorded the day before at Midge Ure's home studio. The first tracks to be recorded were the group / choir choruses which were filmed by the international press. The footage was rushed to newsrooms where it aired while the remainder of the recording process continued. Later drums by Phil Collins were recorded, including the memorable opening 'African Drum' beat. But in reality, the introduction of the song features a slowed down sample from a Tears for Fears' track called 'The Hurting', released in 1983.
Tony Hadley, of Spandau Ballet, was the first to record his vocal, while a section sung by Status Quo was deemed unusable, and replaced with section comprising Paul Weller, Sting, and Glenn Gregory. Paul Young has since admitted, in a documentary, that he knew his opening lines were written for David Bowie, who was not able to make the recording but made a contribution to the B-side (Bowie performed his lines at the Live Aid concert the following year). Boy George arrived last at 6pm, after Geldof woke him up by 'phone to have him flown over from New York on Concorde to record his solo part. (At the time Culture Club was in the middle of a US tour.)
The following morning, Geldof appeared on the Radio 1 breakfast show with Mike Read, to promote the record further and promise that every penny would go to the cause. This led to a stand-off with the British Government, who refused to waive the VAT on the sales of the single. Geldof made the headlines by publicly standing up to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and, sensing the strength of public feeling, the government backed down and donated the tax back to the charity. The record was released on 29 November, and went straight to No. 1 in the UK singles chart, outselling all the other records in the chart put together. It became the fastest- selling single of all time in the UK, selling a million copies in the first week alone. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, selling over three million copies and becoming easily the biggest-selling single of all time in the UK. It has since been surpassed by Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind 1997' (his tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales) but it is likely to keep selling in different versions for many years to come.
After Live Aid, 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' was re-released in late 1985 in a set that included a special-edition 'picture disc' version, modeled after the Live Aid logo with 'Band' in place of 'Live'. An added bonus, 'One Year On' (a statement from Geldof and Ure on the telephone) was available as a b-side. 'One Year On' can also be found in transcript form in a booklet which was included in the DVD set of Live Aid, the first disc of which features the BBC news report, as well as the Band Aid video.
The original Band Aid ensemble consisted of (in sleeve order):
Adam Clayton (U2) Queen Phil Collins (Genesis, solo) Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats) Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet) Chris Cross (Ultravox) John Taylor (Duran Duran) Paul Young Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17) Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran) Simon Crowe (The Boomtown Rats) Marilyn Keren Woodward (Bananarama) Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet) Jody Watley (Shalamar) Bono (U2) Paul Weller (The Style Council) James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang) George Michael (Wham!) Midge Ure (Ultravox) Martyn Ware (Heaven 17) John Keeble (Spandau Ballet) Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) Roger Taylor (Duran Duran) Sarah Dallin (Bananarama) Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) Pete Briquette (The Boomtown Rats) Francis Rossi (Status Quo) Robert 'Kool' Bell (Kool & the Gang, whose members were the only Americans to participate) Dennis J. T. Thomas (Kool & the Gang) Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) Jon Moss (Culture Club) Sting (The Police) Rick Parfitt (Status Quo) Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) Johnny Fingers (The Boomtown Rats) David Bowie Boy George (Culture Club) Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings) Stuart Adamson (Big Country) Bruce Watson (Big Country) Tony Butler (Big Country) Mark Brzezicki (Big Country)
Click the link below to download the following: Video Band Aid Story - 3 Part Documentary Single Version 12 inch Mix by Trevor Horn Standard Mix Feed The World - B-Side One Year On - Feed The World - B-side
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' was a single from Culture Club's debut album 'Kissing to Be Clever'.
The single was pnly ever released in North America, peaking at number nine in both the U.S. and Canada.
With this single, in America, Culture Club was the first band to have three top-ten singles from a debut album since the Beatles.
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' was one of the most performed songs by Culture Club in their live shows. It has appeared in every tour they did.
Click the link below to download the following: Video 1983 Live Performance on the Tube Special Extended Remix Version US 12 inch Mix Man Shake - B-Side
I have received a DMC Takedown notice for this post. Therefore, I have had to remove the link in order to comply with this. I'm sorrythat this has been done. If anyone wants to discuss this then please refer to the furum. Thank you.
Culture Club - I'll Tumble 4 Ya - Live on the Tube UK 1983
'The War Song' which was released from Culture Club's third studio album 'Waking Up with the House on Fire'. The single was not well received with the critics however it became a number 2 hit in the UK singles chart and a top 20 hit in the US in the Autumn of 1984. Even though the song did not receive the attention it deserved I loved this song when it was released and it quickly became one of my favouite Culture Club songs.
Click the link below to download the following:
Video (Ultimate Dance Mix) (The Shriekmix) La Cancion De Guerra - B-Side
June 1982 saw the release of 'I'm Afraid Of Me', the second Culture Club single, which reached 100 on the British charts and was released from their first album ' Kissing To Be Clever'. 'You Know I'm Not Crazy' was the b-side to 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me' in the US.
Click the link below to download the following:
I'm Afraid Of Me (Disconet Mix) I'm Afraid Of Me (Extended Mix) I'm Afraid Of Me (Full-Length EMI Demo) I'm Afraid Of Me (Remix)
You Know I'm Not Crazy (DJ Uman Beatmix) You Know I'm Not Crazy (EMI Demo)
'From Luxury to Heartache' is the name of Culture Clubs 4th album which was released in 1986. The album 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 number 31 in the chart while in the US 'Gusto Blusto' was chosen, but didn't chart (the single didn't have a video and probably this is the reason that it did not enter the US chart). The next single 'Heaven's Children' was planned to be released in July but after the lack of success of 'God Thank You Woman' the release was cancelled. The album is a departure from the big sellers that Culture Club came to expect. Even Helen Terry, who I consider the 5th member of Culture Club, isn't present as much as on previous albums. Jocelyn Brown assisted with the backing vocals on this release. However, this is a good album or is it becouse I am biased?
Track listing
01 - Move Away 02 - I Pray 03 - Work On Me Baby 04 - Gusto Blusto 05 - Heaven's Children 06 - God Thank You Woman 07 - Reasons 08 - Too Bad 09 - Come Clean 10 - Sexuality
This is an interview on the Sydney Breakfast TV on the 15th November 2011. They are talking about the new Album and Tour for next year and playiing at Sydney on New Years Eve with other bands including Pet Shop Boys.
I thought I would start posting some of the Live performances that I have collected over the years.
'God Thank You Woman' was the second single realeased in the UK from Culture Club's 1986 album 'From Luxury To Hearache'.
'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me' is a song recorded by Culture Club and was released as a single from the album 'Kissing to Be Clever'. Throughout the years, the song has been covered by many artists.
In 1981, Boy George occasionally sang with the group Bow Wow Wow under the stage name "Lieutenant Lush". However, his popularity in this role caused friction with the group's actual lead singer, Annabella Lwin.
Band Aid were a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' for the Christmas market. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Two subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts.
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' was a single from Culture Club's debut album 'Kissing to Be Clever'.
'The War Song' which was released from Culture Club's third studio album 'Waking Up with the House on Fire'. The single was not well received with the critics however it became a number 2 hit in the UK singles chart and a top 20 hit in the US in the Autumn of 1984. Even though the song did not receive the attention it deserved I loved this song when it was released and it quickly became one of my favouite Culture Club songs.
June 1982 saw the release of 'I'm Afraid Of Me', the second Culture Club single, which reached 100 on the British charts and was released from their first album ' Kissing To Be Clever'. 'You Know I'm Not Crazy' was the b-side to 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me' in the US.
'From Luxury to Heartache' is the name of Culture Clubs 4th album which was released in 1986. The album 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.
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