Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
Single by Culture Club
from the album Kissing to Be Clever
B-side
  • "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Dub version)" (7")
  • "Love Is Cold (You Were Never No Good)" (12")
Released6 September 1982
Recorded1982
Genre
Length4:22
3:41 (MTV video edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Steve Levine
Culture Club singles chronology
"Mystery Boy"
(1982) 		"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
(1982) 		"Time (Clock of the Heart)"
(1982)
Music video
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" on YouTube

"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" is a song written and performed by English new wave band Culture Club. Released as a single in September 1982 from the group's platinum-selling debut album, Kissing to Be Clever (1982), this ballad[4][5][6][7] was the band's first major hit and first UK No. 1 hit. In the United States, the single was released in November 1982 and also became a hit, reaching No. 2 for three weeks.

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  4. ^ "12 Best Boy George Songs of All Time (Greatest Hits)". 29 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Hip-hop pioneers Ultramagnetic MCS released Critical Beatdown on this day in 1988".
  6. ^ "Missouri wrestlers tune out Baker". 15 November 2012.
  7. ^ "The Devon Allman Project, Yanni, Culture Club and the B-52s: 6 shows to see this week (July 22 to 28)". 22 July 2018.