{"id":32378,"date":"2025-02-18T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=32378"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:04:32","slug":"turn-back-tuesday-culture-club-karma-chameleon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2025\/02\/turn-back-tuesday-culture-club-karma-chameleon\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Back Tuesday &#8211; Culture Club &#8220;Karma Chameleon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the number one song on the charts this day in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>One of Culture Club&#8217;s most iconic songs &#8211; Karma Chameleon was released in 1983 and would go to number one on the charts for three weeks in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Boy George described the song as addressing &#8220;the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing.&#8221; It&#8217;s about the consequences of not being true to oneself, leading to &#8220;Karma-justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some fun facts &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>That famous harmonica in the song was played by Judd Lander, a session musician who also worked with The Beatles and Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n<p>And the song was so successful &#8211; it made enough money to fund the entire record label for an entire year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JmcA9LIIXWw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the number one song on the charts this day in 1984. One of Culture Club&#8217;s most iconic songs &#8211; Karma Chameleon was released in 1983 and would go to number one on the charts for three weeks in 1984. Boy George described the song as addressing &#8220;the terrible fear of alienation that people","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":21360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3694,3695,6257],"class_list":["post-32378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-boy-george","tag-culture-club","tag-karma-chameleon"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 23:56:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2025\/02\/turn-back-tuesday-culture-club-karma-chameleon\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32381,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378\/revisions\/32381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}