Victims (song) explained

Victims
Cover:Victims cover.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Culture Club
Album:Colour by Numbers
B-Side:
  • "Colour by Numbers"
  • "Romance Revisited"
Released:28 November 1983
Recorded:1983
Genre:Soft rock
Length:4:56
Label:Virgin
Producer:Steve Levine
Prev Title:Karma Chameleon
Prev Year:1983
Next Title:Miss Me Blind
Next Year:1984

"Victims" is a song by English band Culture Club, released as a single in 1983 and taken from the album Colour by Numbers. As with most early Culture Club singles, the song is about lead singer Boy George's then publicly unknown and rather turbulent relationship with drummer Jon Moss. Although the group's previous single "Karma Chameleon" had been a massive hit throughout the world, "Victims" was only issued in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Australia. The piano ballad[1] peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart. In Ireland, it peaked at #2, and in Australia, at #4. The single was not released in the United States, Canada or Japan, where they released "Miss Me Blind" instead.

Its B-side was the then unreleased track "Colour by Numbers", which is the title of the album but not included on it. An instrumental version was also issued on the 12″, renamed "Romance Revisited". Both extra tracks are now available on the 2003 remastered version of Colour by Numbers. Boy George re-recorded the song himself as a solo artist, as a folk arrangement with piano and an orchestra, in 2002. That version can be found on the Culture Club box set that was released the same year.

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Web site: '80s Music Icon Boy George Led English Band Culture Club to Legend Status.
  2. Book: Kent, David . . David Kent (historian) . Australian Chart Book . . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6.
  3. Web site: Kent Music Report No 548 – 31 December 1984 > National Top 100 Singles for 1984. Kent Music Report. Imgur.com. 23 January 2023.