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CULTURE CLUB The War Song (Shriek Mix) 12-inch Mix unavailable on CD

This is the Shriek Mix of "The War Song" by Culture Club, released as the 12" B-side version in the UK and Europe, but mistakenly used as the A-side on the US copies (and called "Ultimate Dance Mix"). It has never been released on CD before, despite being (in my opinion) the better remix of the two main 12" versions. The chorus appears in multiple languages on this release, the same 5 languages George's hero David Bowie recorded his hit single "Heroes" in- English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese. George might have drawn inspiration from Bowie when deciding which languages to use on this single, but Bowie himself recorded the entire track in the various tongues, while this single had only the chorus re-recorded, and George doesn't actually do the singing for them, apart from a Japanese ad-lib in the outro choruses. Full length versions of the song with each foreign language chorus were released as the B-side to copies around the world; Spanish in UK, USA, and many European territories; French in France and Canada, German in Germany (who also had versions with Spanish and French as B-sides) and Japanese in Japan. All the translations are fairly close to the English version apart from the Japanese version, which translates as "we oppose war, we oppose war". The "Shriek" this mix was named after is performed NOT by Helen Terry as many people suspect (she had quit the band a few months before this was recorded, although she did some session work on a couple of the album tracks), but by Clare Torry, a singer who's biggest claim to fame was one of the principal backing vocalists for Pink Floyd. Rumor has it she did only two takes in the recording studio- improvising it on the spot- and producer Steve Levine used a combination of those two takes to create one of the most memorable vocal breaks of the 1980's. The War Song was released in the UK on 7", 7" red vinyl, and 12" (first copies included a limited edition poster). A 7" picture disc was also released, but withdrawn from sale the same day. Several excuses are given as to why, but the real reason has never been confirmed. Among those rumors it is implied the spindle hole in the picture disc looks like a bullet hole in George's hat, another reason is the single had already begun to fall from the charts when the picture disc was released and they felt it would not help push the single to the #1 position, so they cancelled it. Neither idea rings true to me- if it was the latter, then why release the red vinyl single as a replacement to the picture disc? And if the former, then record label Virgin Records got over their concerns a couple years later when they released the "God Thank You Woman" picture disc with the spindle hole unmistakably located right between Boy George's eyes. American copies of the single have the wrong album title on the sleeve and label, it reads "Taken from the forthcoming album, "Waking Up In A Burning House". Despite the single selling well enough to warrant additional printings, this error was never corrected. In Japan, both the 7" and 12" were released with picture labels- depicting the naked, tattooed George drawing from the back of the LP sleeve. Boy George never played this song live following the initial break up of Culture Club in 1985; but it made a triumphant return to his set list in 2012, as part of the Culture Club 30th anniversary concerts that took place in Dubai and Sydney. That version was radically different- it begins like a ballad- nothing more than voice and piano- but it built until it reached the first chorus when it kicked into high gear and matched the original version. But not for long- after slowing back down for verse two, the middle section (and the "shriek"!) were replaced by Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Two Tribes". More recent performances follow the same arrangement, but the Frankie Goes To Hollywood bit was dropped around 2014, and they just slide into the outro choruses with a middle eight.