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Sold (album)

Sold
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Studio album by Boy George
Released June 8th 1987
Recorded 1986
Studio Air Studios, Montserrat
Rak Studios, London
Genre Dance pop
Length 43:50
Label Virgin
Producer Stewart Levine, Glen Skinner
Boy George chronology
From Luxury to Heartache
(with Culture Club)
(1986)
Sold
(1987)
Tense Nervous Headache
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars

Sold is the debut solo album by British singer Boy George, released in 1987, for the Virgin Music label, including the hit singles, "Everything I Own" (UK #1), "Keep Me in Mind" (UK #29), "To Be Reborn" (UK #13), and the title track "Sold" (UK #24).

The album was a big success in Europe, and a modest success in the UK, but failed to sell as well in the US because George was not able to tour and promote the record there due to drugs-related restrictions, so Sold reached only number 145 on the Billboard 200, even though Boy George had been a multi-platinum artist with Culture Club in previous years. The album was nonetheless a huge hit in Italy, where it became George’s highest-charting and bestselling work ever – not even his band Culture Club, though extremely popular in that country, ever achieved such an outcome there. The album got good reviews, even if Virgin Records did not like the use of brass on many tracks.


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