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On 22 September 2006, the band performed on the US network television show Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The band's highlight of 2006 was a performance to an audience of 18,000 at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, on 24 October 2006, one of their largest concerts to date. This was followed up by an 11-venue tour of Europe in November and December 2006. Trope Codifier: One of the first electronic bands to hit the UK Sheffield scene, in fact. Also a Ur-Example of UK Synthpop. In August 1978 the band recorded a session for John Peel, including a re-worked version of "Being Boiled." [10] a b "American certifications – Human League". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 21 August 2021. The band's live performances began to gain momentum and acclaim, and they were asked to support first The Rezillos (featuring future band member Jo Callis), then Siouxsie and the Banshees, as early as September 1978. In December 1978, David Bowie appeared in the audience and later declared to NME that he "had seen the future of pop music". [7] [11] [ unreliable source?]

In November and December 2008, the Human League got together with Martin Fry's ABC and Heaven 17 for 'The Steel City Tour' of the UK. This was Philip Oakey's concept of a joint tour of all three bands celebrating the original electronic music of early 1980s Sheffield (the titular Steel City). Much had been made in the UK media [ citation needed] of the history between Heaven 17 and the Human League, the original events of 1980 and the fact they were now working together. Both Oakey and Martyn Ware said that any acrimony from that period had long since been forgotten. [36] At Falkirk festival in May 2007. From left: Sutton, Burke, Beevers, Catherall, Barton, Sulley, Oakey. British album certifications – Human League – Crash". British Phonographic Industry. 6 October 1986 . Retrieved 30 June 2021. In 2023, they were one of the headliners at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, California however they had to cut short their performance due to storms. [45] Legacy and influence [ edit ] Lineup changes and rise in popularity [ edit ] The Human League in 1984. Members: Catherall, Callis, Wright, Oakey, Sulley, Burden a b c d "The Human League | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 17 June 2022.Line-of-Sight Name: The group took its name from a faction in the Sci-Fi Tabletop Game Starforce: Alpha Centauri. In 1987, Ian Burden also left the band. In November 1988, a greatest hits compilation album was released that reached No.3 in UK. This was preceded by the release of the single " Love Is All That Matters" from Crash. The Human League: (Keep Feeling) Fascination". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 June 2020. Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware originally sought to recruit Glenn Gregory as their vocalist, only to find out that he was unavailable. Following this, they sought out personal friend Philip Oakey, who had no musical experience but was well-known for his eclectic fashion sense, which Ware thought would be a good fit for the band. After Marsh and Ware left the Human League and formed Heaven 17, they finally got Gregory to join them as vocalist.

Bubbling Down Under Week commencing 17 December 1990". bubblingdownunder.com. 17 December 2021 . Retrieved 17 December 2021. So I have 4 to like, 3 to skip and 3 in between on this album. Not enough to love, but good enough to like.Using Future material, the Human League released a demo tape to record companies under their new name. The tape contained versions of "Being Boiled", "Toyota City" and "Circus of Death". Ware's friend Paul Bower of Sheffield new-wave band "2.3", who had just recorded a single for Bob Last's Edinburgh-based independent label Fast Product, took their demo to Last and he signed the band. In November 1982, the Motown influenced electropop single " Mirror Man" reached No.2 in the UK chart, just missing another Christmas No.1, which was taken by a novelty record by Renée and Renato. [18] a b c d e f g h i j k l Turner, Sean. "Complete guide to The Human League 1977–1980". Blindyouth.co.uk . Retrieved 30 January 2014. Capitalising on the success of the album and their recent No.1 hit single, " Being Boiled" was re-released and became a Top 10 hit in early 1982. The band toured for the first time together internationally. Concurrently, Dare (later renamed Dare!) was released in the US by A&M Records and "Don't You Want Me" also reached No.1 there in the summer of 1982. A remix album of Dare entitled Love and Dancing was released under the group name " The League Unlimited Orchestra" (a tribute to Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra), reaching No.3 on the UK album chart. Humberstone, Nigel (April 1995). "Phil Oakey: The Human League". Sound on Sound . Retrieved 23 June 2013.

While the band kept its singles in their setlists after the fact, Romantic? was scarcely reissued for the better part of three decades thanks to its critical and commercial failure. Until it was included on the vinyl Boxed Set The Virgin Years in 2022, the only reissues Romantic? ever saw were Japanese CD releases in 1993 and 2017. Hysteria includes a re-recording of "I Love You Too Much" from Fascination!, featuring a less aggressive electro sound. Toyota City" was first released as an exclusive for the Japanese version of the Holiday '80 EP, and due to the fan interest, was added to Travelogue, released a month later. However, for its Travelogue release it was edited two minutes shorter for time reasons. The single "Only After Dark" does include the original long version as a B-side, but this received such poor distribution that importing the Japanese EP is more common. In 1989, the band built their own studio in Sheffield, jointly funded by Oakey and a business development loan from Sheffield City Council. After four months in Minneapolis, a sidelined Philip Oakey pulled the band out of further recording and they returned to Sheffield leaving Jam and Lewis to complete the album using session musicians. Oakey said later:The Human League are an English synth-pop [1] band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981 after restructuring their lineup. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit " Don't You Want Me". The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including " Mirror Man", " (Keep Feeling) Fascination", " The Lebanon", " Human" (a second US No.1) and " Tell Me When". This original lineup lasted until 1980, after which Ware and Marsh left to form Heaven 17. Oakey kept the band name and added female vocalists, and it is this incarnation that gained widespread popularity.

In 1994, EastWest Records (a subsidiary of Time Warner) showed interest in the band's demos and the material rejected by Virgin. They signed the band and paired them with producer Ian Stanley (formerly of Tears for Fears). EastWest financed expensive music videos and heavily promoted their releases. The first release was on Boxing Day 1994 and was the single " Tell Me When", which gave the band their first Top 10 hit since 1986's "Human". It also topped the UK airplay charts for several weeks. The accompanying album, Octopus, returned the band to the UK Top 10 and later achieved a gold disc. The Human League has released 9 studio albums, a live album, a remix album, 13 compilations, 6 extended plays and 29 singles. While still working on the album, the band issued the single "The Sound of the Crowd", which Virgin reluctantly promoted, only to see it become their first Top 40 hit. Virgin then asked for two more singles, again before the album was even finished, causing some stress with the recording process. Virgin's idea paid off: "Love Action (I Believe In Love)" and "Open Your Heart" were even bigger hits, both reaching the Top 10. Around this time, guitarist Jo Callis was added as the band's sixth and final member late in to the album's production. A 12" single remix of " Things That Dreams Are Made Of" (originally from the Dare! album) was released in the UK in January 2008, by Hooj Choons. It peaked at No.2 on the UK Dance chart. Love is all that matters" was a single released with the "Greatest Hits"-album -again! Even I was in records stores every time I could afford by then, i didn't ever recognise its original release. Early 1987 to accompany the "Crach"-tour they released this (in Germany at least), containing the same 7" Edit. It was in 1989 or 1990 that I got aware of that.Both sides of the band's debut single were re-recorded on their Mk. I studio albums, with "Circus of Death" being redone for Reproduction and "Being Boiled" being redone for Holiday '80 and Travelogue. The latter song is faster and more aggressive in its re-recorded iteration. Hysteria has three songs that are this to previous hit "Don't You Want Me"— these being "Louise" (in which the ex-lovers meet again several years later), "Life On Your Own" (which derives its theme from Don't You Want Me's line "Now I think it's time I lived my life on my own") and "Don't You Know I Want You" which is obviously a tongue-in-cheek rewrite. Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped, etched, variant 1): V 2391 B-2U-1- x̶x̶x̶ D TOWN HOUSE DMM Lilleker, Martin. Beats Working for a Living: Sheffield Popular Music 1973–1984. Juma March 2005. ISBN 978-1-872204-26-0 a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.262. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.