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Don't Mind If I Do (Culture Club album)

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Released
  
22 November 1999

Artist
  
Culture Club

Label
  
Virgin Records

Length
  
68:19

Release date
  
22 November 1999

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Recorded
  
1999 at Roundhouse Studios, Konk Studios, Strongroom Studios, Church Studios, Manmade Soul Studios and Angel Studios, London and the Themis Mobile Studio

Producer
  
Roy Hay, Culture Club, Paul Staveley O'Duffy, John Themis, Steve Levine

Don't Mind If I Do (1999)
  
Culture Club (box set) (2002)

Genres
  
New wave, Reggae, Soul music, Pop rock

Similar
  
Culture Club albums, Ballad albums

Don't Mind If I Do is the fifth album by the British new wave band Culture Club, released in 1999 by Virgin Records. The album was released only in Europe and Japan, though some promo copies also circulated in Australia.

Contents

Overview

Don't Mind If I Do was Culture Club's first album of new material in 13 years, after the break-up of the band in 1986 and subsequent reformation in 1998. Numerous producers worked on the project, including Culture Club's original producer Steve Levine (who had produced their first three hit albums). However, despite heavy promotion, the album was a commercial failure, only peaking at No.64 in the UK Albums Chart. The album contains the UK Top 10 single, "I Just Wanna Be Loved", which was actually released over a year earlier and originally included on the band's Greatest Moments compilation. Further singles taken from the album included "Your Kisses Are Charity" which reached Number 25 in the UK, while the next single "Cold Shoulder"/"Starman" stalled at Number 43.

Personnel

  • Boy George – vocals
  • Mikey Craig – bass guitar, piano, vocal arrangement
  • Roy Hay – conductor, guitar, keyboards, vocal arrangements, brass arrangements
  • Jon Moss – percussion, drums
  • Additional musicians

  • John Themis – guitar, vocal arrangement
  • Tim Cansfield – guitar
  • Tony Remy – guitar
  • Steve Honest – pedal steel guitar
  • Darius Zickus – keyboards, programming
  • Kevan Frost – keyboards
  • Jonathan Shorten – keyboards
  • Sacha Skarbek – keyboards
  • Chaz Kkoshi – hammond organ
  • Richie Stevens – percussion, programming
  • Gillian Findlay – violin
  • Sophie Langdon – violin
  • Julian Leaper – violin
  • Roland Roberts – violin
  • Paul Wiley – violin
  • Rolf Wilson – violin
  • Kate Evans – fiddle
  • Chris Davis – flute, saxophone
  • J. Neil Sidwell – trombone, brass arrangement
  • Steve Sidwell – trumpet, flugelhorn, brass
  • Paul Spong – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • John Thirkell – trumpet
  • London Chamber Orchestra – strings
  • Robin Smith – arranger, programming, music direction
  • Paul Staveley O'Duffy – programming
  • Steve Levine – programming
  • Disco Dave – programming
  • Adian Love – programming
  • David Maurice – programming
  • Mr. Spee – programming
  • Emily Themis – backing vocals
  • Zee Asher – backing vocals
  • Angie Brown – backing vocals
  • Linda Duggan – backing vocals
  • Gina Foster – backing vocals
  • Chyna Gordon – backing vocals
  • Spencer Graham – backing vocals
  • Derek Green – backing vocals
  • Mary Pearce – backing vocals
  • Tubbs Williams – backing vocals
  • Derick Johnson – rap
  • Production personnel

  • Jon Themis – executive producer, music direction
  • Paul Staveley O'Duffy – producer, engineer, mixing engineer
  • Dom T – producer, remixing
  • Roy Hay – producer
  • Steven Levine – producer
  • John Musgrave – engineer, mixing engineer
  • Chris Scard – engineer, mixing engineer
  • Albert Pinheiro – engineer, assistant engineer
  • Pete Lewis – engineer
  • Frank Arkwright – mastering, cutting engineer
  • Wing Commander Gill – assistant engineer
  • Daniel Gilliland – assistant engineer
  • Graham Hogg – assistant engineer
  • Ian Rossiter – assistant engineer
  • Ryan Tully – assistant engineer
  • Roland Herrington – mixing engineer
  • Richie Stevens – mixing
  • Fiesta Mailing – transcription
  • Ryan Art – design
  • Paul Cox – photography
  • Songs

    1I Just Wanna Be Loved4:34
    2Cold Shoulder4:34
    3Maybe I'm a Fool4:32

    References

    Don't Mind If I Do (Culture Club album) Wikipedia