Chosen by Q magazine
Presented by Jamelia
Winner: Culture Club for Karma Chameleon
This year's Classic Song Award goes to Culture Club's Karma Chameleon. This composition - written by Boy George, Jon Moss, Michael Craig, Roy Hay and Phil Pickett, made the Number One spot for three weeks in September 1983. Today, George himself picked up the award, which honours a song that's stood the test of time.
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2:51 PM | 30/10/2006
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OK I AM NOT KIDDING BUT DO REALLY WANT TO HURT ME WAS A BETTER SONG
Posted by ROSH at 11:29 PM | 30/10/2006 | Report Abuse
Great choice. In fact, George is a great songwriter. That's too sad that he is remembered sometimes for his clown make-up.
His actual stuff is as great too...
Posted by Simon at 5:54 PM | 31/10/2006 | Report Abuse
Boy George deserves this award, but there are so many other beautiful songs he has written al over the years. He is my big hero and number one, Listen to his songs, listen to his musical TABOO, he also deserves a best songwriter award.... xxx sven.strange
Posted by svenstrange at 9:21 PM | 01/11/2006 | Report Abuse
Classic Song? Utter, utter, utter PANTS! I have no objection to George picking up an award, but I could think of a thousand songs more deserving than this, including several by Culture Club!
Posted by Martin at 8:57 AM | 08/11/2006 | Report Abuse
Ok , maybe there are better songs in the Culture Club canon but this one is good enough and a classic. For me , it´s more important the award cause Boy George have written some outstanding songs , no doubt about it .
Posted by Alberto at 11:46 PM | 09/11/2006 | Report Abuse
I just don't understand why Boy George does not recieve more awards like that. Also, we should have people like him on charts, with clever lyrics, strong melodies...
Has he a record deal ? I hope so...
We want "personnality" back in pop...
Posted by Q-Fan at 6:04 PM | 14/11/2006 | Report Abuse
I had an argument recently that Boy George was more famous for being gay than music, you know like Graham Norton is more famous for being gay than being funny.
My point was proved by a quick poll where only 2 out of 20 people knew one of his songs or achievements (one for song, one for DJ) yet everyone could tell me he was a flambouyant gay.
Do they give awards for that?
Posted by Gaz at 2:07 PM | 19/01/2007 | Report Abuse
That's true. He is not very known for the good reasons right now.
For the serious music fans, that could laugh about him (I was like this before)... go download some solo tracks like
Il Adore, If I Could Fly, Am I Losing Control
and you will see how great he is as a composer and lyricist. I think he should write for a lot of newcomers.
My opinion.
Posted by Rain at 6:40 PM | 28/02/2007 | Report Abuse
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