Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
| Do You Really Want to Hurt Me | |
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| Culture Club | |
| publication | September 6, 1982 (UK) November 22, 1982 (USA) |
| length | 4:22 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , New Wave , Reggae |
| Author (s) | Roy Hay , Boy George , Mikey Craig , Jon Moss |
| Producer (s) | Steve Levine |
| Label | Virgin Records , Epic Records (US) |
| album | Kissing to Be Clever |
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Do You Really Want to Hurt Me is a 1982 song written by Culture Club .
History and publication
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me was written by Boy George , Roy Hay , Mikey Craig and Jon Moss , produced by Steve Levine , and released by Virgin Records on September 6, 1982. In the USA, Epic Records took over the distribution.
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me was Culture Club's first song to be released worldwide and helped the band achieve their commercial breakthrough. The debut single White Boy only appeared in the UK . The song Do You Really Want to Hurt Me was first played on BBC Radio 2 and reached the top of the UK singles chart in October 1982. In Germany, the song took first place for 7 weeks and in early 1983 it came to second place on the US Billboard Hot 100 .
In many countries, the B-side of the song was a dub version of Do You Really Want to Hurt Me , while in the United States it was released as the B-side You know I'm Not Crazy . The 12 "single had the additional track Love Is Cold (You Were Never No Good) .
In the music video Boy George wears a t-shirt with the wrong Hebrew translation of the band name Culture Club : "Tarbut Agudda" (תַּרְבּוּת אֲגֻדָּה). Instead of Mikey Craig, his brother Greg appeared in the music video.
In the summer of 2005, a remix of the song was released in France as reggae , which reached number 20 in the charts.
Cover versions
- 1982: Culture Club feat. Pappa Weasel
- 1983: Rita Coolidge
- 1984: Howard Carpendale
- 1991: Violent Femmes
- 1997: Diana King
- 2002: Melanie Safka
- 2005: Blue Lagoon
- 2006: Thomas Anders
- 2013: Karen Souza
- 2018: Scott Matthew
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me , Hitparade.ch
- ↑ Sources for chart placements: DE / AT / CH / UK / US , accessed on August 3, 2019.
- ↑ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit-Bilanz, Deutsche Chart Singles 1981-1987 . Taurus-Press, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-922542-34-4 , p. 43.
- ^ Joel Whitburn: The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits . 7th edition. Billboard Books, New York 2000, ISBN 0-8230-7690-3 , p. 162.