Trivia / Culture Club

• Approval of God: Zig-zagged. Boy George thought that Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley's "Where's the Dress" (a song wherein the two singers suggest that they should start crossdressing for fun since it works so well for Boy George) was funny. However, he sued the singers for $10,000 since the song used the opening riff of "Karma Chameleon" without permission. They settled out of court and the song was re-recorded.
• Channel Hop: Like many Virgin Records acts, Culture Club's catalog was originally licensed out to Epic Records in the United States before Virgin opened an in-house American division in 1986, who took control of the band's material Stateside from that point onward. For the band's 2018 album Life, they moved over to BMG.
• No Export for You: Don't Mind If I Do, oddly, was only released in Europe.
• Reality Subtext: The anguished love songs that George wrote during the band's heyday were about drummer Jon Moss, with whom he was having a secret affair.
• Sequel Gap: Don't Mind If I Do came out 13 years after From Luxury to Heartache; in turn, Life came out 19 years after that.
• Troubled Production: Colour by Numbers was drama-packed behind-the-scenes, mostly thanks to Jon & George's relationship, as well as George's, errr...volatile behaviour. This article from Classic Pop magazine has all the gory details.

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