Time (Clock of the Heart)

"Time (Clock of the Heart)"
Single by Culture Club
from the album Kissing to Be Clever (US Version)
B-side
  • "White Boys Can't Control It"
  • "Romance Beyond the Alphabet" (US version)
Released19 November 1982 (UK) / 29 March 1983 (US)
Recorded1982
Genre
Length3:42
LabelVirgin, Epic
Songwriter(s)Boy George, Jon Moss, Mikey Craig, Roy Hay
Producer(s)Steve Levine
Culture Club singles chronology
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
(1982) 		"Time (Clock of the Heart)"
(1982) 		"I'll Tumble 4 Ya"
(1983)
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"Time (Clock of the Heart)" is a song by the British new wave band Culture Club, released as a stand-alone single in most of the world and as the second single from their debut album Kissing to Be Clever in North America. As the follow-up single to their global hit, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time (Clock of the Heart)" peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, kept from the #1 spot by Irene Cara's "Flashdance... What a Feeling". "Time" was also a major hit in the band's native UK, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart and selling over 500,000 copies in that country.

The song appears on the North American version of Culture Club's album Kissing to Be Clever. In Europe and other regions, it does not appear on the album, but instead was released as a stand-alone single in November 1982. For many of these markets, its first inclusion on a Culture Club album was on the band's 1987 greatest hits album, This Time: The First Four Years.

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