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The Human League is tagged as: new wave, 80s, synthpop, electronic, synth pop

The Human League are an English synthpop band formed in 1977. Originally a minimal post-punk synthesiser-based group from Sheffield, UK, they became one of the most successful new wave acts of the 80s. The only consistent band member is vocalist and songwriter Phil Oakey. The band’s best known configuration was their 1980-1985 lineup of Phillip Oakey (vocals), Joanne Catherall (vocals), Susanne Sulley (vocals), Phillip Adrian Wright (keyboards), Jo Callis (guitar, keyboards) and Ian Burden (bass).
Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh were both working as computer programmers in 1977, and combined a love of pop music (such as glam rock and Tamla Motown) with avant garde electronic music. They acquired a Roland System 100 synthesizer and began to create music in their own rehearsal facility. Initially they formed a group called The Dead Daughters, which then became The Future with Adi Newton on vocals. Newton was soon dismissed and left to form the outfit Clock DVA. Ware and Marsh searched for a vocalist, but their first choice, Glenn Gregory (who would be the lead singer of their later band, Heaven 17), was unavailable. Ware instead decided to invite Philip Oakey, an old school friend, and a hospital porter at the time to join the band, “apparently by leaving a note stuc...
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Top 10 The Human League Songs
Don't You Want Me
Love Action (I Believe In Love)
Together in Electric Dreams
Human
Being Boiled
The Sound Of The Crowd
Open Your Heart
(Keep Feeling) Fascination
Mirror Man
The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
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Top 10 The Human League Albums
Dare
The Very Best Of The Human League
Greatest Hits
Travelogue
Dare!
The Greatest Hits
Soundtrack to a Generation
Reproduction
The Best Of
Hysteria
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