"It's A Miracle" by Culture Club

1984 / #13

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"It's no surprise...There's something in my eyes..."

You may remember Boy George and Culture Club. Who can forget them?

I heard Culture Club on the radio before MTV came to town and before I even saw a picture of the band. It was around the time I kept something called "cultures", which were mostly small pieces of discarded food that I glued to a paper grocery bag. There was a macaroni elbow, bubble gum, and more! When I planned to save a booger as a "culture", my mom made me throw the whole thing away.

I used paper grocery bags for lots of projects. One day, I drew a picture of a big, yellow monster on a paper bag called a wolley - which was yellow spelled backwards. I think the wolley might have been anatomically correct, but I can't remember.

Culture Club's second album yielded many hits, including "It's A Miracle." I think this was before our biggest top 40 station adopted a stated policy of not playing Culture Club, but even before that statement, they seemed to shun some of the band's big hits. The Boy George blacklist helped fuel "It's A Miracle" quickly becoming a lost hit.

As with Paul McCartney's "Take It Away", someone alluded to "It's A Miracle" years after it had vanished from radio.

When I was a high school junior, there was a girl who was in my class for just one day. When she showed up that morning, she loudly argued with her parents and the teacher. She claimed she couldn't read because she forgot her glasses - even though her glasses were stowed safely in her desk. I never saw her again after that day, and a classmate told me she was ambushed by police when she got on the bus the next day. Her Sally Jessy Raphael specs and rotting food remained in her desk for the rest of the school year.

Anyway, on the day she did show up, we were at lunch when she declared, "There's something in my eye." This declaration resulted in another student immediately lapsing into a rousing chorus of "It's A Miracle."

I can't remember if this was before or after another student was apparently kicked out of school because he showed up drunk. One day, this student kept making a crude joke about Miracle Whip: "You whip it out and it's a miracle!" But nobody responded with a Culture Club song.