Culture Club - A Kiss Across The Ocean (Live 1983)

Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon December 1983.
I'll Tumble 4 Ya @01:00
Mister Man @03:57
It's A Miracle @07:45
Karma Chameleon @11:00
Black Money @15:35
Love Twist @20:24
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me @24:40
Miss Me Blind @29:20
Church Of The Poison Mind @35:30
Victims @40:00
Time @46:09
White Boy @51:00
Melting Pot @56:01

[@annestella858]

I'm 73 years young and I still love listening to Culture Club and Boy George!!

[@VanessaStonestone]

❤😂very goosd

[@garysmith8073]

Life was so much easier.

[@debraweaver6308]

Well....I am 72 years old. And I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO THEM!!!

[@TheDesertWineGuy]

57 here.

[@Lin-bx5vg]

78 here, and ditto! 😂❤😂

[@Diana-nt4zg]

I’m 61 years old now, when I saw this on HBO I was 23 and I think I watched like 1000 time. Love Boy George and Culture Club. I feel the same emoción now watching this video. Boy George Is a Legend 😍♥️♥️♥️♥️🤩✨💫

[@georgedavall9449]

I hear ya Diana!

[@robinspiker3394]

Absolutely! I am 59 and I only heard music from first 2 albums. I was in love! After rediscovering him again recently, I have gotten to learn and feast on BoyGeorge and Culture club the last couple of months!!

[@michaelsnyder2588]

I,m 75 he is very simple and intelligent sort of fella.

[@mollyxx9247]

That’s amazing I’m 21 now and love him any word of wisdom starting out on my life x

[@crystalgonzalez1278]

I watch this I listen to this song when I was 13 years old love to den and I still love it as much today the fire has not went out boy George it's one of the most talented entertainers that I've ever heard of even up until this very day. Culture club is no more without boy George but he still is number one.

[@Poli-14p]

Мне 16 и я только начала слушать эту группу. Я восхищаюсь с каждой песней,с каждым инструментальным сопровождением, талантом и умением передовать чувства из песен😮😊

[@davidesechi1559]

What an incredible bassist is Mikey Craig?! What a groove, what a powerful sound! Amazing

[@GARose-kt4jc]

@Daria Pavlova I AGREE!! When I was young (in the 80's) I only noticed the overall sound of a song, for some reason now that I'm older, I notice the elements that go into making it!

[@64andyjh]

I saw them on this tour, the 'Colour By Numbers' tour, just a couple of months before this at the Brighton Conference Centre, October 1983. They were at No 1 in the UK with Karma Chameleon, at the height of their popularity, and Boy George was just about the biggest star in the World. The atmosphere was electric, and they put on a fantastic show to which this video can never fully do justice. It really was a night to remember!

[@畑中大子]

日本に来日した時にテレビで見る事ができました。皆があまりに美しいボーイジョージに感嘆の声だったのを思い出します。このライブ映像をKZbinで発見したのは幸運でした。素晴らしいパフォーマンス❤、二度と現れないグループだと思います。ボーイジョージは現在も歌い続けているのかな、だとしたら凄いと思います。大好きです

[@marimo0529]

武道館、浜スタ(単独じゃない)に、小中学生の頃に親と行きました。

[@gypsydog24]

Culture Club at the top of their game,Helen Terry on back up vocals,what a voice.

[@riodopoeta]

Helen Terry , the name I was Asking ! What a singer !

[@michaelroccia2108]

Agreed the were never the same after they lost her

[@heidypanameno3143]

This Kiss is everlasting. I still remember the first time I saw the video for rent at block buster. I didn't mind the extra fees, not sure it was even playable by the time I returned it. I also remember being really sick one year and my mom said to me, "You can't die yet, not before you meet Boy George." I met him twice so far, still not enough!

[@debraweaver6308]

WOW! Lucky you!!!

[@debraweaver6308]

Where did you meet him?

[@rickmontgomery3037]

Never realized just how good of musicians these guys are until I watched this for the first time several years ago. Excellent band all the way around :)

[@gailreed4597]

That they were! I think they were a bit overshadowed by George's AMAZING voice. It was HARD to get to know the rest of the band as interviewers tended to focus on George and ignore the other three.

[@domenicovitale901]

They were centuries ahead!!! Love CC forever ! 😘

[@johnleach2484]

I'm 58 and some of the best music growing up in the 80's

[@monelove721]

I stood in front of my television and recorded this song Black Money on my Texas Instrument one way recorder. Praying no one would come down stairs and talk or yell my name and ruin my recording. It was rough backn the day trying to get a pristine live copy of a song when it wasn't released by the record company. Bootleg copies existed but I was 11 😂 This was my favorite song.

[@LOLmusics]

Omg Judd was smokin on church of poison mind! Omg he was smokin on that harmonica!

[@tonycanaris6521]

The Bassists and Guitar are very great musicians with unique style.

[@BillieBailey-th3lc]

Yes!!! Have much love for Mikey and Roy!❤❤

[@ceciliaesponoza8446]

MARAVILLOSO CONCIERTO, LO VI DE PRINCIPIO A FIN...BUENÍSIMO...

[@BarbaraS.pt9pi]

Culture Club & Boy George has always been my favorite ❤❤❤❤ music since I was a kid! Now I’m 48yrs old! I have a playlist of all music videos, concerts, history, and interviews I can never stop watching 😊😊😊!

[@coolco6159]

Just spent the best 2 nostalgic hours here....so wish we can rewind the clock....

[@MichelleMC2007]

Cool Co Why does it start all over again and have no sound after 1 hr for me I wonder??

[@coolco6159]

Oh what a shame, you are definitely missing out the wonderful Boy George experience!!

[@MichelleMC2007]

Cool Co Oh I know because I've seen this when it was on HBO and I taped it. I don't get it. Any ideas of why this could be happening?

[@coolco6159]

Hi, I really have no idea. I often found the same problems with some other posts. Anyway Boy George is currently back on the music scene so watch this space!!

[@MichelleMC2007]

Cool Co Yeah I heard. Hopefully this will get resolved.

[@tonycanaris6521]

Miss me blind was incredibly tight, clean and with feeling and passion

[@zabadazidit]

OMG, I saw this live on American cable TV in 1983 and I felt as if I were there at Hammersmith with everyone else! Not to mention the legendary Helen Terry on backup vocals. Kudos for uploading this! 😁😁😁

[@BelleFleur73]

God this brings back memories...i remember watching this on HBO in 1984 when I was ten. Days and times of innocence .

[@philp4415]

Great horns, great vocals, great show!! Sad I didn't discover this video until 2019!

[@merci7775]

I'm 17 and I've stumbled upon this band over the past few days and I'm already obsessed. Help.

[@carlosserrano3985]

Welcome to the best decade in music, the awesome 80'S.

[@musicforthepeople4701]

Very tight band. Sound great. So talented.

[@countrydrummergirl7581]

Still love Culture Club after all these years. Of course I had a crush on Jon Moss. Helen Terry though omg her and Boy George were the musical power couple.

[@BillieBailey-th3lc]

I thought Jon was HOT too!🔥🔥🔥

[@ThePhoenix1201]

In my mind boy george is the best song writer and performer ever hope he continues to entertain us

[@suziecue3027]

He is

[@francineballesteros8832]

He was an amazing and a great artist. His voice was unique and he still is amazing and wonderful.❤❤❤❤

[@bojohnson1014]

Wow I remember watching this concert on HBO..

[@gdhse3]

I've watched this so many times ...it is such a great concert!

[@rosesavoia4657]

Never grows old. Love them then love them now.

[@spunky1able]

hey hey I'll be 72 in a few months & I love culture club, their music is so refreshing, & enjoyable. I'll listen to them until I leave this world. I also love some of the new singles boy George has written when on his own, go BOY, I heard that's what your friends call you, surely I'm a friend!!!

[@charlesyost8507]

I remember this on H B O live approximately 30 years ago. What a jem to find!

[@davemiller7676]

They're very best concert ever ....pure talent ! ❤️🔥

[@djjee-one352]

had the cassette album of this live concert...and here im seeing the event after 3 decades. amazing.

[@kelluvsgeorge8166]

I was at this tour as a 11yr old.im hoping I make it my tenth time to see them

[@tsoj71]

I love boy George‘s and Helen Terry‘s voices harmonize!❤️💕

[@jimmystinky7775]

Gosh, I miss those days.....so many wonderful memories!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for posting the concert

[@salinarahim4712]

Vvc345689900p p pllooo

[@salinarahim4712]

%%%%%%&&>**&##@@/_[](*&;

[@glenn20081965]

Such a great concert....full of energy and very vibrant!

[@conniecasares2176]

So much feeling emotion I feel it hard core

[@theresasutherland2380]

This would put all the manufactured groups of today to shame. Superb! Sad those days of originality are gone.

[@georgedavall9449]

Well said Theresa!

[@mattma96]

The world is going backwards & it's really sad...

[@nancywages7029]

They sure are. No kind of music like this anymore. They can't even sing! I went to his concert in Paris with my mom and friends. My mom loved him so much and shouted "love you Boy George" and he responded live you too. Lol. She passed 3 Septembre 2020. Miss her so much. We were living in Germany when they first started. Fell in love with them and his voice...first song. Dad kept asking me...is that a guy...you are sure? Yes I said...you know...am 60 now and still love them.

[@robinspiker3394]

So true.Listening to those songs now, makes me want to ask questions about how they put songs together because I am so impressed. I know George wrote lyrics but I wonder if he had a certain tune in mind. I know they all contributed . Musical genius together, those guys! They were all so young. Alot of musicians have long hair. George has a wonderful voice and presence. Let’s be real, we first fell in love with his angelic voice but then he’s an attractive man. I heard some upsetting (old) news about him. Then I remembered that I can look up on KZbin to my heart content ALL the BOY GEORGE I want to now! 😂. Only God knows who we are. He causes all things to work for the good of those who who love him and are called according to his purpose..

[@rain73ful]

God, I miss eighties! A great time for music!

[@BillieBailey-th3lc]

It WAS a great time, and not just for music!! If only I could go back, I'd do it in a heartbeat!

[@mauriciocotapos313]

Excelente Show de Culture Club ! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@deborahbooth4410]

Well we know about Boy George Helen Terry wow that was the most amazing concert simply amazing wow wow wow what an incredible music arrangement don’t you think our generation today Could really do with a dose of this. ….. oh George thank you and very very big hug and kiss to Culture Club. Xxx.

[@jorgeeldotadito]

me encanto, espectacular impresionante el talento y calidad musical, x siempre mi idolo.

[@photopics]

My high school days. I remember all the controversy. I still have all the albums!

[@riodopoeta]

If I was there ... I would not sleep for a week , at last , after all this energy ... Culture Club

[@amayaescobar3275]

Desde que lo conocí me enamoré de sus melodías fuí , soy ,y seguiré siendo su fans . Boy George tiene una voz hermosa ! . La música de Cultura Club , llegó y se quedó para siempre . Gracias ! CULTURE CLUB . por hacerme feliz con tus canciones .

[@Lin-bx5vg]

Oh, yes, I feel the same.❤

[@screechingsmee2253]

They should just make this as a whole live album for DVD Vinyl and CD

[@jrpg0630]

My favorite artists are from the 80's, wish i was alive back then. Good thing we have youtube.

[@rain73ful]

There was a lot of good music made back then, as you're discovering.

[@michaekptudor8527]

Jorge Perez I was 16 when the 80s started. It was pure magic.

[@erzulie8972]

It took nearly 40 years to realize how precious, and fleeting, those times were. We thought they would never end... I deeply wish they hadn't. People were so much more open-minded, open-hearted, tolerant, laid back... Where did those years go...gone forever? Perhaps, but never forgotten. Thank You for posting this concert. Lifted my dark spirit, getting harder to do...

[@mattma96]

@@michaekptudor8527 Especially in the first half of the 80's - So full of surprises(sound & vision wise)!!!!!!

[@wju425]

One of my fav 80s band

[@lauraisabelmartinez3548]

Simplemente grandioso ¡! Gracias por compartir. ¡!

[@mauricejohnson9846]

I have always loved Culture Club every since Iwas 13 years old back in 1983. They're my favorite group of all times. I will never forgetseeing Boy George for the first time and thefirst times that I heard him sing and seen oneof his videos. They became my favorite groupat that moment and time.

[@ponbunnyyukapon8532]

こんなに素敵なライブがあったなんて！タイムスリップできるならこのライブに参加したい…❤ 歌声もルックスもパフォーマンスも最高最強すぎます✨

[@stephaniepettgurlz2870]

Boy George was great.....but by gawd........Helen Terry was a power house in her own right! Jus sayin....

[@alissacollette5589]

Stephanie Pettgurlz YES!!!

[@stephaniepettgurlz2870]

Alissa Collette

[@alissacollette5589]

[@kellter70]

Stephanie Pettgurlz thanks for reminding me her name...yesss!

[@stephaniepettgurlz2870]

kellter70 Most welcomed

[@adalbertogomesmacedofilho2919]

I'm from Brazil and I had this VHS ... thanks for sharing

[@lizzihernandez7284]

Nunca me cansaré de ver éste concierto. Simplemente maravilloso 😍😍😍

[@TanyaKatherine]

in love with the energy he delivers on every note

[@cherylcook788]

Awwwww I wont to go back to the 80s so much fun and i have the biggest crush on Boy George 💝

[@kamialvarado5465]

estupendooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jamas me cansaria de escuchar..

[@claudiovianna3058]

Olá Kami Alvarado! você que é estupendooo! fico contente que esta gostando de minhas canções preferidas! eu as chamo de AS++ de Cláudio Vianna! abraço!

[@NimNum]

After 30 years, I finally saw Culture Club on 07 / 31/ 2016!! Bucket List !!!

[@ketixab]

2019

[@bigoz169]

@@ketixab he needs Helen Terry and the dream will be fulfilled.

[@karinfandrey181]

I had seen him 1982 in Düsseldorf 😍 ... i told everyone around me ... how sexy he was (is) ... allthough he seemed gay ... it did not matter ... than i saw him around 2010 on Bali Beach ... as a DJ ... what a wonderful suprise ... and after all ... i saw him in Cologne ... December 2018 ... he sounded great ... as ever ... i love him ...

[@ramon1802]

Glad that Helen Terry is being acknowledged. She was a great singer, who gave Culture Club that deep and distinctive "soul" sound

[@sheniawilliams6124]

I know ey!💋

[@junestewart1131]

George always acknowledged Helen x

[@monaluv718]

She could SANG her face off

[@ivyvines6708]

@@monaluv718 You got that right. Her voice was a powerhouse and then some. ;-) ;-) ;-)

[@georgedavall9449]

Indeed!

[@mattma96]

Such an awesome, flawless live performance! Those dancing bass notes from the fingers of Mickey~ Culture Club was definitely at the top of the game!!!!!!! Whoa~~~~~~~

[@mikinajikina6348]

The lady have a Great voice.......and Boy George looks great!

[@militzaadrid9467]

...he was in his early twenties. He sure was a doll.

[@marevan5]

um ótimo grupo dos anos 80 gosto muito

[@nicholaswestover7362]

Saw them back in the day & took my youngest daughter a couple of years ago to see them & she loved it !

[@anubora]

I am big Hard-rock fan ( led zeppelin, gnr.....) but Culture Club ( pop music) ist fantastick band with great songs..respeckt. Melting Pot----W O W

[@terristarnes7742]

George you and Helen Terry are an unbeatable combination this is a great performance I love these songs, I love you always George.

[@julietlanza29]

Un concierto magistral! !!

[@meminnieandthegang.2076]

Well I'm 54 now and I went to see Boy George and culture club in concert here in Toronto at the what was then. maple leaf gardens what is now today "Loblaws" grocery store and the other half is the mattamy athletic center for Ryerson University students and for private rent by the hour ice hockey rink. Many world famous people have passed through those doors and performed some of the most wonderful memories for me as a young teenager. Boy George and culture club was the second concert that I had ever gone to, the very first concert I went to was Madonna. I believe I was 13 then, any year later I saw boy George. I loved him as a teenager I thought he was great, he was controversial and outrageous and I love their music too. It was a very different time then opposed to what it is today obviously. Music was raw, in every song that we heard had a significant story behind it. It carried a melody aneurysm in some catchy tune that made all of us sing-along and dance to. Unlike today, where music basically can be produced by anybody you don't even have to have talent just the proper technical skills to edit you're off tune or off voice and for that they have synthesizers and electronics did you make your voice kind of like Britney Spears, never mind any song having a story behind it or a meaning, it's just had to have a catchy tune that rhymed whether it means anything or not who cares as long as it sounds sketchy and people pick it up is how music is today. When I watch concerts like this it reminds me of how things in the way they used to be. I grew up in a very special time during the 80s and early 90s, life was so different than. We didn't have cell phones we didn't have computers, cassette tapes and VCRs and we had to put a big huge tape into a machine to record things if we wanted to watch our favorite Rockstar or popstars where we would record their videos from television shows like Toronto rocks electric circus and much music. We know how to communicate back then and whenever someone was talented you can rest assured it really was talent and not something that they just learned off of KZbin video that was catchy or a trend everything was raw talent unlike today.. people who didn't grow up in the 80s really missed out in life. We became really tough strong people with thick skin. There was none of these politics with oversensitive attitudes are pronouns where they don't know what they are.. what you see is what you got whether you like it or not, tough ! deal with it. Get over it and let's move on. That's how things were back then. I wish it was like that still today it would be a much safer intolerant society. Boy George and Madonna stand and represents for a lot of that add a different time, in a different place, and if you didn't grow up back then you can't relate.

[@windypatterson6068]

i love Boy George i always have always will, culture club are in a group all their own , to me that is the best, unique,and totally real

[@deborahguido1459]

This was such a awesome concert! You can see each band member giving 120% of their energy. George has always lit my fire from the very first day...what a talented gorgeous soul he is...

[@TheSprekenteng]

World’s best band ever!! Love all of them!

[@BillieBailey-th3lc]

George's AMAZING voice with a TIGHT band = The BEST🔥🔥🔥

[@MRusso99]

Oh my gosh, I love watching and listening to this video. It was so lovely to see Boy George when he was one year into being a larger-than-life celebrity. And they are all happy and smiling.

[@tcapuzzo1]

Saw them in florida on vacation at 14 years old when Karma had just reached number 1 for a month. It was so great. Good memories. Still listen and see them live. Different but very good.

[@nhcharmedone]

My all time favorite band!

[@davidbezer5011]

Second favorite behind Queen

[@Ксендрикс]

Мне 22 года и я восхищаюсь этой группой, можно мне один билетик на такой концерт в 80-е?

[@michaelperez8744]

Part of the joy for me is at 4:01 -- hearing my favorite Culture Club album track Mister Man LIVE!! ahhh....

[@LLCoolJArchive]

George was SANGING on Black Money with Hellen!!!

[@Jazzybellshouse]

Mikey and George are my favorites

[@waltervargashuacon7445]

Esto ya no es música esto es el cielo fuera de mi entendimiento . Obras maestras hechas música

[@BillieBailey-th3lc]

I LOVE George's voice SO MUCH, listening to this makes me feel like "I died and went to Heaven"!💙💙💙

[@Lin-bx5vg]

Me, too. ❤

[@ademirwagner564]

Músicas perfeitas, melodias incríveis.

[@edaneaglam9349]

Wonderful performance, Ilove it so much !

[@countrydrummergirl7581]

Omg i have this on VHS but is been in storage. I'm so happy I found this. My all time fave 80s group. Boy George and Helen Terry are an awesome singing duo.

[@塩田泰子]

私は小学生高学年の時からカルチャークラブの大好きで、ボ―イジョ―ジさんが大好きで す。 ファン歴40年です いつまでもかっこいい ジョ―ジさんでいて下さい。 😊

[@karencooper7801]

Boy George just keeps,getting better, Boy George and Culture Club talent superb!!!!!

[@maryannmcnair6887]

I miss those old days

[@Lin-bx5vg]

Oh, and video people, thank you, too. For bringing this to us.❤😂❤

[@Carigelomex]

Algunas bellezas no deberíamos nunca envejecer :)

[@jamesramos9840]

Gran cantante Boy George 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@minimanomanimo9921]

*I LOVE THIS CONCERT*

[@rakelgalliano4081]

en mi juventud fui un fans total de boy george . finalmente le di la mano aqui en barcelona ya el con 50 años he increiblemente sigue siendo un rostro hermoso .

[@yatgrave1120]

Omgg, que hermosoo Que envidia también, jaja❤️

[@perpetual61]

I remember hearing about this Concert back in the 80's here the states. Now I can watch it on the Tube. I just hope it doesn't get removed due to copyright like so many of Culture Club's stuff seems to disappear lately.

[@youtubecreaters384]

wow...those simmons drum machines...fantastic sound from Jon Moss

[@carlosserrano3985]

Yes is the Simmons SDSV electronic drums in beautiful yellow color.

[@marlitarnoski9604]

todas as musicas são lindas, mas a ultima é sensacional. amei❤❤❤❤assisto todos os dias.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@renatas.5531]

Tô numa nostalgia braba dos anos 80. Não paro de ver tudo sobre o CC. Apaixonada por eles.

[@suziecue3027]

2023

[@goodjuju320]

I remember watching this about 10 times on HBO

[@willfromyadkinville]

i had it recorded on vhs but its unfortunately gone!

[@monaluv718]

I was watching Phil Collins mix and they played Culture Club. I sent the song to my cousin and asked did she remember this HBO special. Did t think I would find it because it’s so old. I used to have a life size poster of Boy George In my room. Loved Culture Club. And damn Helen SANG her face off🔥🔥🔥

[@theultimatek.i.m.m1504]

I had audio taped this entire concert off HBO (no one was allowed to talk -- heh, get me at 13 years old tryna regulate.) Listened to it til the tape recorder ate it up! Lol.

[@marcelapimienta7455]

Estuve años buscando este gran concierto, recuerdo la noche que lo escuchè en un pub de Flores hace mas de 30 años. Ufff !!! Grandioso... Nostalgia, recuerdos

[@ladygagah4528]

Marysol Cristal por un momento imagine no encontrar un puto comentario en español, también disfruto ver una y otra vez este, concierto.... AMO Boy George...

[@edgardogregorini4600]

Flores Uruguay??

[@rociomendez5690]

Somos muchísimas admiradoras del muñeco de boy George lo adoro

[@dilciavillatoro372]

Lindo boy yo tambien es impresionante ver sus ojos vellos y su musica muy vuena 🙋👍

[@claudiovianna3058]

Olá Marysol! que bom saber que minhas canções preferidas estão te agradando! eu as chamo DE AS++ DE Cláudio Vianna! abraço!

[@gabrielasantos9898]

Oh gosh this makes me wanna have lived my teen years in the crazy 80s..every one love these songs, they are somehow nostalgilc even for us that havent been there..

[@nancywages7029]

Yes. Am 60 now and the 80's was like the roaring 20's for us. I bought records on a daily basis practically....so many good groups in all of Europe. Thank goodness we can enjoy on KZbin.

[@carlosserrano3985]

I was 14 in 1983, the 80'S was the best years of my life, period!

[@KLFNYC]

Thank you so much for posting this! I just saw Culture Club here in Brooklyn last week, one of my childhood dreams to see them, and I finally did. Boy George was incredible. These songs were my favorite and bring back such great memories, Thank you again!!!

[@edgardogregorini4600]

2 hours of concert?? With only 2 albums released at date? Wow!