The best No 1 records: Culture Club – Karma Chameleon | Jude Rogers

1983: As pop often is, this track is about everything and nothingBoy George's rise from Blitz Club cloakroom attendant to eyeshadow-smothered, multi-plaited megastar was one of the decade's greatest pop journeys. Even better, he was singing "I'm a man" on one of the biggest singles of the 80s. With its eccentric and classically English song title, Karma Chameleon is about everything and nothing, as pop often is. It's full of coded messages to Boy George's secret lover, Culture Club drummer Jon M...

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