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Culture Club Rock Fuel Media is excited to announce the release of Live At Wembley from multi-Platinum and '80s icons CULTURE CLUB. A state-of-the-art DVD, Blu-Ray, and CD package, is out now via Cleopatra Records. The concert will be broadcast on TV in 2018, details of which will be announced soon. For this very special hometown show, all four original band members-Boy George, Jon Moss, Roy Hay and Mikey Craig--reunited for one final show together at the historic Wembley Arena in London. Boy George states: "We were thrilled to be back home for the final show of such a highly successful reunion tour. Being able to document this show on film before our hometown fans, friends and family, with all the original members of the band, where it all began for us in London in 1981, makes this concert film release that much more special for our fans to enjoy for many years to come." CULTURE CLUB returned home for the holidays in 2016 and performed ...

**** Chuffed About The Boy Story By: G. H. HARDING   **** Boy George In 1985 With visions of London’s King’s Road circa 1985 in my mind, I witnessed Culture Club’s return to NYC Monday night at The Beacon Theatre and despite some rough patches, really enjoyed it. Formed in 1981, the band comprised Boy George (lead vocals),Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards) and Jon Moss (drums and percussion). Their second album, Colour by Numbers, sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and has been certified triple platinum in the UK and quadruple platinum in the US. It was ranked No. 96 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1980s and is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The band enjoyed a goldmine of hits, including the songs "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time (Clock of the Heart)", "I'll Tumble 4 Ya", "Church of the Poison Mind", ...

**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER Story By: G. H. HARDING **** Boy George CLUB CANCELED --- Culture Club have canceled their upcoming U. S. and U .K. tour dates after a polyp was discovered in Boy George's throat. A doctor has ordered the frontman to refrain from singing as he may need to undergo an operation. Ticket refunds will be available at the point of purchase, but the group hopes to reschedule the concerts for next year. In a statement on their web site, the band wished George a speedy recovery and said, "To our fans, we wish to thank you for your loyalty and know that we love you all." Culture Club was scheduled to spend much of November and December on the road as they prepped for the release of their new album, Tribes, which arrives in early 2015 via the band's own Different Man Music label. Last week, Culture Club released the album's first single, "More Than Silence," which they also performed recently on...

Angels and Kings owner Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz has opened a New York bar where people can have sex in the toilets.The singer - who is currently dating Ashlee Simpson - has launched Angels and Kings in the East village with friends Gym Class Heroes lead singer Travis McCoy and Yellow Fever clothing designer Jamison Ernest which he wants to be "a dive for losers".Wentz said: "It will be a bit of a dive, which we need. We finally have a place where all our loser friends can hang out!"We'd had enough of all the pretentious clubs with strict door policies which feel uptight when you finally get in."We really just want someplace where we can hang out and be ourselves. I want to be like any other regular and drink umbrella cocktails."Ernest added to the New York Post newspaper: "This will be a place that anyone can go and have sex in the bathroom and not get in trouble."

Famed Writer Mark Bego With Deborah Gibson 80s-music icon DEBORAH GIBSON wowed the SRO-crowd at Manhattan's Culture Club last night, with a performance that included all of her hits, as well as a new track entitled "Famous" that had the crowd totally in sync with her. 'Interestingly enough, Gibson's "Electric Youth" drew the most applause and had the crowd singing along. Talk about your iconic-80s-song! The song is the name of a play, based on Gibson's music, that is opening in Masy at The Starlight Theatre in Orlando. She performs this Monday night at BROADWAY FOR MEDICINE, alongside BETTY BUCKLEY, JOHN McDANIEL (Rosie O'Donnell show); MALCOLM GETS; ANDREA McARDLE; HUGH PANARO (Lestat); and, LISA VROMAN (Phantom Of The Opera). Celebrity-author MARK BEGO, who's new bio BILLY JOEL: THE BIOGRAPHY (Thunder's Mouth Press) is out in June, and who wrote Gibson's biography BETWEEN THE LINES, attended the show.

No One Was Bigger Than Deborah Gibson In The 80's In the late-80s, there was no one hotter than DEBORAH GIBSON ... who stills holds the record as the youngest person ever to have written, performed, produced, and arranged, a #1 record ... "Foolish Beat." PAULA ABDUL choreographed her second video "Shake Your Love", she's dated LORENZO LAMAS and CRISS ANGEL; knows RYAN SEACREST personally; performed in LEZ MIZ; GYPSY; CABARET; JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNOCOLOR DREAMCOAT; CHICAGO; BEAUTY ANDTHE BEAST; and, GREASE, and last year was showcased on SKATING WITH CELEBRITIES. Gibson returns to New York this week for a show at CULTURE CLUB (179 Varick Street) where she will perform all her hits, including "Only In My Dreams," "Electric Youth," and "Shake Your Love." She was just interviewed for a forthcoming FOX TV prime-time special on everyone's favorite BRITNEY SPEARS, along with SIMON COWELL; SEACREST; and, HUGH HEFNER. While...