The War Song

"The War Song"
Single by Culture Club
from the album Waking Up with the House on Fire
B-side	"La cancion de guerra"
Released	24 September 1984 (1984-09-24)[1]
Genre	New pop[2]
Length	4:14
Label	Virgin, Epic
Songwriter(s)	Boy George, Roy Hay, Mikey Craig, Jon Moss
Producer(s)	Steve Levine
Culture Club singles chronology
"It's a Miracle" (1984) "The War Song" (1984) "The Medal Song" (1984)

"The War Song" is a song by British band Culture Club, featuring background vocals from Clare Torry. It was released as the lead single from the band's third album, Waking Up with the House on Fire (1984), in September 1984. The song became the group's seventh top-five hit on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, the single peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. Elsewhere, it reached the top 10 in several countries, including Australia, Canada, and Ireland, peaking at number one in the latter country.

Lead singer Boy George later stated on BBC3 that "most people are very ignorant politically and we're all told how glamorous war is."^[3] The band mostly played the song live during the 1980s. The group played the song at a gig on New Year's Eve 2011. They also performed the song in 2014.^[4]