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“Karma Chameleon” is a song by British New Wave band Culture Club, featured on the group’s 1983 album Colour by Numbers. The song spent three weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1984, becoming the group’s biggest hit and only US number one. “Karma Chameleon” hit number one in sixteen countries worldwide. In the group’s home country, it became the second Culture Club single to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart (after “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”), where it stayed for six weeks in September and October 1983, and became the biggest-selling single of 1983. It is widely regarded as Culture Club’s signature song. In an interview, Culture Club frontman Boy George explained: “The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear... Read on...