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Soft Rock Beats Beneath Culture Club's Wild Image

Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 30 August 1983

NEW YORK — The cover of Culture Club's first album, Kissing to Be Clever, featured lead singer Boy George in all his glory: glistening red lipstick, dark eyebrow liner, rouged cheeks over a white face powder, and dreadlock braids spilling out of a Hasidic bowler.

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