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Culture Club Live At The Royal Albert Hall 20th Anniversary Concert

(en)

2002

Culture Club Live At The Royal Albert Hall 20th Anniversary Concert

Music

Overview: Live at the Royal Albert Hall finds Culture Club celebrating their 20th anniversary with an infectious and expansive grandeur, all while basking in the love of adoring fans. The show actually starts with a great joke on the audience: Boy George, looking not a day over 20, glides onstage in his once-trademark derby and beaded hair extensions, delivering a warm and welcome vocal on "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" The startled crowd soon realises he's an impersonator. The real, fortysomething George O'Dowd, looking a lot less androgynous and a tad thicker than in his New Romantic days, smiles self-deprecatingly and launches into a pleasing set of white soul ("Cold Shoulder", "Miss Me Blind"), stark gospel ("That's the Way"), stirring raga-rock ("Bow Down Mister") and even a classic (a lovely cover of Bowie's "Starman", complete with audience participation and muscular guitar by Roy Hay). It's a fine show all around.

Status: Released

Release date: November 10, 2002

Top Cast

Boy George

Boy George

as Self

Jon Moss

Jon Moss

as Self

Roy Hay

Roy Hay

as Self

Mikey Craig

Mikey Craig

as Self

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