BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB - MOVE AWAY

MOVE AWAY

BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB

SONGWRITERS: GEORGE ALAN O'DOWD; JERRY HEY; MICHAEL EMILE CRAIG; JONATHAN AUBREY MOSS & PHIL PICKETT

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: MOVE AWAY

LABEL: VIRGIN

GENRE: ELECTRONIC

YEAR: 1986

"Move Away" is a 1986 song by the British band Culture Club. Taken as the lead single from their fourth album, From Luxury to Heartache, the song became the group's eighth top-ten hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number seven. It reached number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100, the song was popular on US radio and the music video received healthy airplay on MTV during the spring of 1986 and was also their last single to reach the Top 40 in the US. It also reached the top ten in various other countries including Canada (#4), Italy (#10) and Australia (#10).

The song was produced by Lew Hahn and Arif Mardin (the latter a producer for Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin in the 80s). "Move Away" was the only single from the album to reach the top-ten in the UK and would be the band's last UK top 10 hit until 1998's "I Just Wanna Be Loved".

The video-clip for the song, which cast Boy George and Jon Moss as silent film-stars racing cars across a black/white movie screen, was filmed at the Brixton Academy, London. George's friend Alice Temple can also be seen in the video.

Moving Moving Move away

Spirit changed the conversation

Stepping stones across the land

I never wanted to be a hero

I never wanted to be a man

I hurt you darling

I made you cry

I hurt you darling

Don't ask me why

Move move move away from me darling

I never said I'd hold your hand

Move move move away from me darling

I never said I'd understand

If I could say this was judgement day

You know I'd be a millionaire

I'm prepared to wear my sorrow

Everywhere we go in town

Ain't no need to beg or borrow

While you're there to drag me down

(Justice right)

I need you so

I can't let go

I never said I'd hold your hand

Why don't you move?