Career
As a solo performer, she scored a Top 40 hit single in 1984 with "Love Lies Lost", and released one album in 1986, Blue Notes. She then pursued a career in film and television production, most prominently behind the scenes as a producer and executive producer for the television broadcast of the BRIT Awards since 2001. Terry was asked to perform on Culture Club"s debut album, Kissing to Be Clever, after lead singer Boy George met her at a London club
Her soulful vocals became a key element of the Culture Club sound on the group"s debut album and its follow-up, Colour by Numbers.
She is featured in several of the band"s videos, including "Time (Clock of the Heart)", "Church of the Poison Mind", "lieutenant"s a Miracle", "Black Money", "That"s the Way", "Victims", and often appeared on television with them. Her solo career began in 1984 on Culture Club"s label Virgin with the single "Love Lies Lost" (which she wrote in collaboration with group members Boy George and Roy Hay).
The single went to Number. 34 in the United Kingdom, reached the same position in Australia, and was a Number.
28 hit in Ireland. That year she also co-wrote and recorded "Now You"re Mine" with producer Giorgio Moroder for the soundtrack to the film, Electric Dreams, and released the single "Stuttering".
In 1985 she guested on Philosophy Collins" Number Jacket Required, and sang the song "Take That Look Office Your Face" for the tribute album Performance: The Very Best of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber. The soundtrack to the film Quicksilver featured her duet with Ray Parker, Junior., on the song "One Sunny Day". Terry"s album Blue Notes was released in 1986 and produced by Don Was.
lieutenant spawned three singles, "Stuttering", "Acting of Mercy" and "Come on and Find Maine".
Her involvement with Culture Club was minimal after 1985, although she made a guest appearance during Boy George"s 1987 United Kingdom solo tour. In 1989, after signing to Parlophone, she released an European Parliament, Fortunate Fool, featuring three new songs.
Two of these, "Fortunate Fool" and "Lessons in Loneliness," were also released as singles, but differences with her record company led to a deadlock over plans for an album and she abandoned the contract. In 1994, Terry performed backing vocals on the European Parliament "Going Blind" by London alternative rock band The Sway, appearing on the title track and "Number One Comes (Close To You)."
Blue Notes has been re-released as a remastered limited edition Civil Defense with bonus tracks in 2009.
Terry contributed some backing vocals to the track "Whole New Way" on the 2010 Scissor Sisters album Night Work.
After she stopped singing professionally, Helen Terry moved into film and television production, beginning as a children"s television researcher in 1990. She has worked as a producer for the BRIT Awards television broadcast since 2001, becoming the executive producer in 2005. The 2008 broadcast attracted 6.1 million viewers.
