• Kissing to Be Clever is the debut album by the English band Culture Club, released on 8 October 1982 in the United Kingdom. It includes Culture Club's...
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    being the first group since The Beatles to have three Top Ten hits in America from a debut album. Kissing to Be Clever was certified platinum in US for 1 million...
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    "Culture Club". Billboard. Retrieved 18 September 2021. "Culture Club: Kissing to Be Clever". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 16 June 2020. "Canadian...
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  • from their debut album Kissing to Be Clever in North America. As the follow-up single to their global hit, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time (Clock...
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  • Really Want to Hurt Me" from Kissing to Be Clever "Time (Clock of the Heart)" from Kissing to Be Clever "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" from Kissing to Be Clever "White...
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  • released in 1983 as the fifth and final single from their debut album Kissing to Be Clever. The 7" single was released only in North America, peaking at #9...
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  • in September 1982 from the group's platinum-selling debut album, Kissing to Be Clever (1982), this ballad was the band's first major hit and first UK No...
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  • Sun-Times. "'Kiss the Girls': Clever Creep Show". The Washington Post. October 3, 1997. Thomson, Desson (October 3, 1997). "Familiar 'Kiss' of Death"....
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  • more than 10 million copies worldwide, and like its predecessor, Kissing to Be Clever, contains several hit singles. In the United States, all the album...
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  • the BRIT Awards since 2001. Terry was asked to perform on Culture Club's debut album, Kissing to Be Clever, after lead singer Boy George met her at a London...
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    recorded their debut album Kissing to Be Clever (UK No. 5, US No. 14,) and it was released in 1982. The single "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" became an international...
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    visitors from all over the world to kiss the stone and tour the castle and its gardens. The word blarney has come to mean "clever, flattering, or coaxing talk"...
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  • 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2013. McLean, Craig (1 June 1995). "Kissing to be clever". The Face. Emap International Limited. Phares, Heather. "Post –...
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    Moments Culture Club: Waking up with the House on Fire Culture Club: Kissing to Be Clever David Grant & Jaki Graham: The very best Daytona Lights: This Modern...
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    Captain Crucial and toasted on the Kissing To Be Clever song Love Twist as well as Murder Rap Trap, the B-side to I'm Afraid Of Me (also included on the...
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  • September 1997). "Fire and Ice". Time Out. McLean, Craig (1 June 1995). "Kissing to be clever". The Face. Simonart, Serge (8 October 1995). "The troll, the eccentric...
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  • singles up to that point, there were several notable omissions including "The War Song" (UK #2), "Mistake No.3", "The Medal Song" (UK #32) and "To Be Reborn"...
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  • BKS "Take Control", a song by Culture Club from their 1982 album Kissing to Be Clever "Take Control", a song by Jaimeson "Take Control", a song by Lords...
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  • and Gallup would automatically dial up the terminals via telephone lines to gather the sales information. 10 February – John McCabe's Concerto for Orchestra...
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  • 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2021. Lorenz, Christian (May 15, 1999). "Kissing Clever with a Song of Sixpence" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 16, no. 20. p. 11...
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  • 1982 in British music (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    bandmates, by announcing that the Jam are to disband, just prior to a short UK tour. "Beat Surrender" would be the band's final single, and became their...
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    The Cleverlys are a bluegrass & comedy cover band. The members play the double bass, banjos, and fiddles. Paul Harris grew up in Arkansas and began working...
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  • Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album Thriller, which would go on to be the greatest selling album of all time at 70 million units sold worldwide...
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  • on the band's second album, Colour by Numbers), which was intended to be released to promote this collection, but never actually came out.[citation needed]...
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  • spanning from their debut album (1982's Kissing to Be Clever), to their most recent single "I Just Wanna Be Loved", which reached No. 4 in the UK Singles...
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  • Mary Chain Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette Kanye West KISS Kissing to Be Clever - Culture Club Cyndi Lauper LL Cool J London Calling - The Clash...
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  • and down he wandered" and ends with "then they fell a-kissing" repeats, causing the elision "kissing up and down." The madrigal featured in the episode Death...
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    In 1981 – the year before Culture Club released its debut album, Kissing to Be Clever – Howard teamed up with Culture Club producer Steve Levine, a collaboration...
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  • "contains a lot of comedy and invention, but doesn't much benefit from its clever style. The characters and plot are so promising that maybe Black should...
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  • Count again and in the last scene of the film they are seen kissing happily. Edith Clever as Marquise of O Bruno Ganz as the Graf (the Count) Edda Seippel...
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