00:00After four weeks, it is Culture Club!
00:30Without conviction, I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction.
00:43You come and go, you come and go.
00:49Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, chameleon.
00:54You come and go, you come and go.
01:00Love is easy because I like my dream.
01:04Red, gold and green, red, gold and green.
01:10Didn't hear your wicked words every day.
01:15And you used to be so sweet, I heard you say.
01:20That my love was an addiction when we think.
01:27Our love is strong when you go.
01:33You come forever, you string along, you string along.
01:42Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, chameleon.
01:46You come and go, you come and go.
01:52Love is easy because I like my dream.
01:56Red, gold and green, red, gold and green.
02:01Every day is like survival.
02:07You're my lover, not my rival.
02:13Every day is like survival.
02:18You're my lover, not my rival.
02:32I'm a man without conviction.
02:38I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction.
02:48You come and go, you come and go.
02:54Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, chameleon.
02:59You come and go, you come and go.
03:05Love will be easy because I like my dream.
03:10Red, gold and green, red, gold and green.
03:15Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, chameleon.
03:19Come, come, come, come, come, chameleon.
03:20You come and go, you come and go.
03:25Love will be easy because I like my dream.
03:30Red, gold and green, red, gold and green.
03:36Come, come, come, come, come, come, chameleon.
03:39You come and go, you come and go
03:46Loving we're busy because we're like my dreams
04:01Thank you
04:09I, uh, hold on a minute, I'll be talking to boy George later when he's got his breath back
04:14Now then
04:30Hello
04:33Good to see you
04:34Well now we've sold a million records today
04:36Yes, Barry
04:37Barry?
04:39Which Barry are you referring to?
04:41Barry Humphries, aren't you?
04:41No, I aren't Barry Humphries
04:43She knows Barry Humphries because she comes from Australia
04:45Sure
04:46Have you been to us?
04:48No, I haven't been to Australia yet, it's too far, I can't fly
04:50How would they welcome you in Australia?
04:53We're massive in Australia
04:55Before you answer that, we're massive in Australia
04:58What's that for?
05:00It's a teapot for me
05:01It's the first teapot
05:03Thank you very, thank you very kindly
05:05I love it
05:07Thank you very kindly
05:11What's
05:13Is that a chamber pot?
05:15To put a candle in to heat the tea up when you're in bed
05:18You know
05:19I read in the paper
05:20I read in the paper last week that you'd rather go to bed with a pot of tea than anything
05:24else
05:24No, not with a pot of tea
05:27Have a pot of tea
05:28Have a pot of tea instead of going to bed
05:29Right, that's it
05:30Now I also saw the other night on television, George
05:33A very interesting account of your own mother and father talking about you
05:36Did you see that?
05:37I did see it, yeah
05:38And I thought they were rather together, people
05:40They've got their own PR now
05:41Like Saatchi Saatchi
05:44To improve their image
05:45Yes
05:46There's so many people wanting to speak to them now
05:47Because they find it so bizarre that my parents should actually, yeah
05:51Should actually want a son like me
05:54Now that's a picture of your dad and them
05:56Yeah
05:56Picture of the dad and them, Coral
05:58George is the one on the right
05:59Yeah
06:00Yes, yes, yes, yes
06:01And that's dad, yes
06:02What troubles have they had with you, George?
06:04None at all
06:05That's the whole thing, see
06:06People expect problems
06:07Yeah
06:07You know, my home
06:09My life has nothing to do with those, really
06:11You know, they just treat me as a son
06:12In the way that I treat them as a parent
06:14It's not something they think about, you know
06:15I mean, I'm sure
06:16You know, people don't care
06:18I mean, my parents don't care
06:18I'm sure you wouldn't care what your children were like
06:20I hope not anyway
06:21No, but I mean, there is a certain amount of exotica around you
06:24You are
06:24You do present a lot of vivid image
06:26I don't think so
06:27I think it's very normal
06:28I'm an entertainer
06:34You're welcome
06:35You see, I'm an entertainer
06:36I'm an old-fashioned entertainer
06:38Right
06:38I'm not like the normal kind of jeans and t-shirt brigade
06:41Right
06:41I mean, I believe in giving value for money
06:43And I think that it's time now
06:44With video and with music generally
06:46That people started dressing up
06:48And I look great
06:48I do it very well
06:49Yes
06:50And that's the reason I do it
06:51I mean
06:51I
06:52You have a wonderful skin
06:55Wonderful, wonderful skin
06:56That really helps
06:56This shows a quagmire of comments
06:58And compliments
06:59Compliments
07:00Yes
07:01What do you look like in the morning?
07:03Okay
07:03What you look like in the morning
07:06Okay
07:07Most people look okay in the morning
07:08And how long does it take you to apply your makeup?
07:11About 20 minutes
07:12Seriously?
07:12Yeah, I've been doing it for about seven years now
07:14I'm an old-timer really
07:15Right
07:16And I just hate to put yours on
07:19Longer
07:20Longer
07:23He is definitely wearing makeup
07:25I once said to Frankie Howard
07:29He said you look terrible
07:30I said I haven't got any makeup on tonight
07:32And he said
07:32Why not try a one-way ticket to the Lord
07:35I love it
07:36I love it
07:36He should have said I'll use makeup and use scaffolding
07:40Now listen
07:40Karma Chameleon is a sensation
07:43We just pointed out
07:44Do you ever
07:44When you're starting to compose or write this
07:46Have a smell of success about it
07:48Could you forecast something
07:49Or do you know what ingredients it means?
07:51Well when we started this band
07:52I mean everybody said give up
07:54You know
07:55And everybody constantly told me that
07:57You know
07:57I was great
07:58But as a personality
07:59Not as a singer
08:00Everybody talks about great singers
08:01But they talk about George as a clown
08:03Boy George as a clown
08:04I mean I am a singer
08:05And I don't think about the product as commercial
08:07I write everything purely on a personal basis
08:09I mean the songs are egotistical in the sense that
08:12I write about the way I feel
08:13About the people I love
08:14About the feelings I have
08:15I don't write with a commercial feeling
08:18So they're all first habits
08:18It's all luck
08:19Believe me
08:20It's all chants
08:21Prayers
08:22Sleepless nights
08:23It's all luck
08:23You cannot write the perfect pop record
08:25You just hope
08:26And you were saying that it's in an old tradition
08:27Is it an older tradition?
08:29Well Karma Chameleon is an old fashioned song
08:30In the sense that
08:31It's like a campfire song
08:32It's for everybody
08:33It's a song that you can sing along to
08:35It's a very high spirited song
08:36Which is what pop music is all about
08:37It's about naivety
08:38And it's about excitement
08:39And I feel that's what we do
08:40I'm quite interested in
08:41Because since I
08:42It's risen into the charts
08:44It does actually
08:44Get itself like a little weevil into your head
08:46Yeah
08:46It's a subliminal tune
08:49It is
08:49It isn't
08:50Have you got anybody to look after your interests?
08:53Like
08:55What's that supposed to mean?
08:56I'm saying
08:57You're riding high at the moment
08:59Yeah
08:59You're going up right at the moment
09:00We've read many many stories
09:02Of people
09:02That's the 1970s
09:03That's when people
09:05I mean I'm not a pop star
09:06In the sense that I don't
09:08Have a house where the bed falls out of the ceiling
09:09And I don't have a jacuzzi
09:10With a video screen
09:11I mean I
09:12Like their house you mean?
09:13Yes exactly
09:14Yeah but they're allowed to do that
09:15Because they're from people you see
09:16I'm a pop star and it's very old fashioned to be like that
09:19Is it?
09:19So what is it?
09:20What do you have?
09:20What's a new fashion then?
09:21Well it's just to be really
09:22Try to be down to earth
09:23I mean a lot more bands now have
09:25A bigger business mentality than they did in the 70s
09:27I mean remember
09:28I do this because I feel it
09:30And not because somebody's told me that
09:31If I don't
09:32Stop looking like a hippie
09:33I'll make lots of money
09:34And I do it because I love dressing up
09:35And you do enormously successful
09:36We're very pleased to have you here tonight
09:38Thank you
09:39Thank you
09:46Now
09:47The judges have
09:48You see I can't even speak
09:51The judges have taken into account
09:53All the preliminary heats
09:54And our latest performance tonight
09:55And they've come up with the 1983 Wonder Wife
09:57And the Prime
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