Boy George and Culture Club release “Runaway Train” Gladys Knight

Boy George & Culture Club have released track ‘Runaway Train‘ featuring the legendary Gladys Knight – listen here. The track, taken from their album ‘LIFE’, was re-recorded with Gladys Knight in September 2018, and fulfilled a life-time ambition for Boy George. Last year, Gladys Knight joined Boy George & Culture Club on stage to perform the track during their sold-out show at The Greek Theatre, LA as part of the bands huge US tour. An exclusive shaped 10″ vinyl of the song was released as part of Record Store Day last month. 

Boy George & Culture Club’s first album in 20 years ‘LIFE’ was released at the end of last year and went into the UK Top 20 album chart. ‘LIFE’ was praised by fans and critics with The Observer writing that ‘Culture Club has returned with big, catchy songs full of soul’ – buy/stream the album ‘LIFE’ here.

Since their inception in 1981 Culture Club have sold more than 150 million records worldwide, recognised as a Grammy Award winning UK institution with a stream of classic hits including; ‘Do You Really Want to Hurt Me’, ‘Karma Chameleon’, ‘Church Of The Poison Mind’, ‘Victims’, ‘It’s A Miracle’ and ‘The War Song’. The group are fronted by singer/songwriter Boy George, universally loved as one of music’s most iconic artists, with Roy Hay on guitar/keyboard and Mikey Craig on bass. As the first multi-racial band with an openly gay frontman, Culture Club set many records and established themselves as icons of British musical history and popular culture. Last summer they played to over 500,000 people in the US and performed ‘The Life Tour’ in arenas across the UK and Europe.