Culture Club: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

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1982
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Boy George in Culture Club: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (1982)

The video for the song, directed by Julien Temple, featured lead singer Boy George on trial in a courtroom, with flashbacks to the Gargoyle Club, Soho in 1936 and the Dolphin Square Health C... Read allThe video for the song, directed by Julien Temple, featured lead singer Boy George on trial in a courtroom, with flashbacks to the Gargoyle Club, Soho in 1936 and the Dolphin Square Health Club, Pimlico in 1957. The jury was in black-face making jazz hands gestures. One band memb... Read allThe video for the song, directed by Julien Temple, featured lead singer Boy George on trial in a courtroom, with flashbacks to the Gargoyle Club, Soho in 1936 and the Dolphin Square Health Club, Pimlico in 1957. The jury was in black-face making jazz hands gestures. One band member, Mikey Craig, was not in the video, and was replaced by his brother Greg. Boy George we... Read all

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- Julien Temple
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- Julien Temple
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In 2007, Boy George said that the song was "not just about Culture Club's drummer Jon Moss, my boyfriend at the time. It was about all the guys I dated at that time in my life."

Connections
Featured in The History of Rock 'n' Roll: Up from the Underground (1995)

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Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Written by Culture Club, Boy George (as George O'Dowd), Jon Moss, Mikey Craig (as Michael Craig) and Roy Hay
Performed by Culture Club

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the message

The message, today like in 80 s, is the most important aspect of this song about freedom, jazz, perspectives of others and manner to define guilty and life. And love, off course, as basic ingredient to define yourself. In short, one of precious demonstrations of the gift of Boy George and mark of Culture Club.

More than nostalgia , the lyrics as axis of a story about happiness and judgement.

Eccentric to fascinating, it is a great demonstration of the rhytm and cooldness of a time of some forms of innocence.

In short, today, pleasant, in some measure, important refuge , return to a precious lost age.