Time (Clock of the Heart)

Released in the UK on 19 November 1982 and in the US in 1983, it was a stand-alone single in most of the world and the second single from Kissing to Be Clever in North America. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, kept off the top by Irene Cara's Flashdance... What a Feeling, and at number three in the UK, where it sold over 500,000 copies. For many markets its first appearance on a Culture Club album was the 1987 compilation This Time: The First Four Years.

Helen Terry sang backing vocals, Phil Pickett played piano, glockenspiel and tubular bells, Steve Grainger played saxophone and Trevor Bastow arranged the strings. AllMusic's Stewart Mason wrote that of the early hits it had probably aged the best, and in 2022 Rolling Stone ranked it the tenth-best song of 1982. It is also on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of 500 songs that shaped rock and roll.