Karma Chameleon

Karma Chameleon is a song by Culture Club, released on the album Colour by Numbers in 1983. It was three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1984. The harmonica in the song was played by Judd Lander, a former member of The Hideaways, who and on her in Culture Club Song Church of the Poison Mind has played in the Spice Girls song Say You'll Be There. The song was originally Cameo Chameleon hot, there are records of interviews from 1983 to prove it. In an interview Boy George said:

"The song is about the terrible fear of alienation did people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. It's about trying to suck up to everybody. Basically, if You are not true, if you do not act like you feel, then you get Karma -justice, that's nature's way of paying you back. "

" The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have that fear, to become involved for one thing. It 's about how you're trying to suck up at all. Basically, it is as if you're not true to yourself, if you do not behave the way you feel, then you get Karma - justice, that's nature's way of get back at you "

2006 used the Labour Party the song before the 2006 local elections in the UK as the theme song for a series of commercials against David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party.

Publications

Karma Chameleon was released in September 1983.

The single was released in two versions, with the That's The Way ( I'm Only Trying To Help You) B-side as a studio and as a live version. The maxi - single was released with the B-side I'll Tumble 4 Ya ( U.S. 12 " Remix)

Music Video

The music video takes place in 1870 in Mississippi. On the shore people appear in colorful costumes, including dancers in red, gold and green. Boy George is also to be seen there and sings the song, while a pickpocket travels by the amount of people.

On the riverfront, a ship called "The Chameleon" comes ( German: The Chameleon ) past, people climb this. On board the ship, some of the passengers to play poker. As the pickpocket is caught in a theft, he is chased over the plank.

The ship to be seen in the video belongs to the shipping company Turk Launches of Kingston -upon -Thames and is still used today, mainly during the summer months on the ship route from Kingston to Hampton Court

The music video was filmed in the summer of 1983 in Weybridge.

Chart success

The single reached # 1 on the charts worldwide in 16 countries. In England Karma Chameleon held six weeks at the top of the charts, selling over 1.4 million copies and became the biggest selling single of the year there in 1983.