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Culture Club: Brighton Centre, Brighton

Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 1 October 1983

IF EVER there's a tune crying out to symbolise the genius of Culture Club, it's the final encore of tonight's set, an uplifting, clapalong version of Blue Mink's 'Melting Pot'. The "coffee-coloured people" Culture Club turn out "by the score" are their songs, the most clever, imaginative and persuasive syntheses of black and white pop music to hog the charts in years.

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