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История "Human League" – это история по существу двух радикально различающихся британских групп, одной прогрессивно-экспериментальной, другой мелодичной и коммерческой. Первое воплощение группы было сформировано летом 1978-го в составе: Ян Крэйг Марш (р. 11 ноября 1956, Шеффилд, Англия; синтезатор), Мартин Уэр (р. 19 мая 1956, Шеффилд, Англия; синтезатор), Фил Оуки (р. 2 октября 1955, Шеффилд, Англия; вокал) и Эдди Ньютон. Последний вскоре покинул "Human league" и был заменен клавишником Адрианом Райтом (р. 30 июня 1956, Шеффилд, Англия), который был также режиссером представлений и ответственным за визуальные эффекты. В начале 1978-го группа подписала контракт с независимым лейблом "Fast Product". Их первый сингл "Being Boiled" звучал очень необычно и привлек к себе внимание другой компании, "Virgin Records".
Дебютный альбом группы "Reproduction" продавался неплохо, но все же широкая известность к ним пришла с выходом EP "Holiday, '80". Команда получила возможность поучаствовать в престижном телешоу "Top Of The Pops". Имидж Оуки (пирсинг, "квадратная" стрижка) сделал его центром внимания в группе. Это привело к некоторым трениям внутри коллектива, которые не исчезли даже после попадания в хит-парады их второго альбома "Travelogue".
Дело закончилось скандальным уходом в конце 1980 года Марша и Уэра, которые впоследствии занялись проектами "BEF" и "Heaven 17". На условиях отчисления комиссионных за будущие релизы Марш и Уэр разрешили Оуки оставить за собой название "Human League". Вместо того чтобы взять на их место опытных музыкантов, Оуки пригласил в группу двух девочек-подростков, которых подобрал на одной из дискотек в Шеффилде. Сюзанна Салли (р. 22 марта 1963, Шеффилд, Англия) и Джоанна Катеролл (р. 16 сентября 1962, Шеффилд, Англия) учились в школе и раньше не имели никакого понятия о музыкальном бизнесе. Новый состав "Human league" был доукомплектован басистом Яном Барденом (р. 24 декабря 1957, Шеффилд, Англия) и экс-гитаристом "Rezillos" Джо Коллисом (р. 2 мая 1955, Глазго, Шотландия). Обновленная группа радикально контрастировала с холодным, отчужденным имиджем первоначальной "Human league" и сделала большой уклон в чистый "поп", произведя на свет в течение 1981 года ряд хитов.
"Boys And Girls", "The Sound Of The Crowd", "Love Action" и "Open Your Heart" проложили путь к успеху альбома "Dare!", разошедшегося тиражом более чем в пять миллионов экземпляров. Год закончился выходом сингла-бестселлера "Don't You Want Me", занявшего первую строчку в британских чартах. Этот трек стал также № 1 в США, возглавив британское вторжение "нью-попа".
Human league После этого "Human league" взяли длительный творческий отпуск. Новый альбом 1984 года "Hysteria" был встречен неоднозначно, хотя сопутствующие синглы "The Lebanon", "Life On Your Own" и "Louise" все попали в английский Топ 20. Оуки к концу 1984-го в компании с Джорджио Мородером выпустил на удивление успешный альбом. До выхода следующего альбома "Human league" – "Crash"- прошло два года, в течение которых состав группы покинули Райт и Коллис. В 1990-м "Human league" возвратилась с новым альбомом "Romantic?", который был встречен очень прохладно. После этого группа исчезла из виду на целых пять лет и появилась только в 1995 году с альбомом "Octopus" и рядом хитовых синглов.
Диск был похож свежестью и простотой на "Dare!". Несмотря на свою беспорядочную карьеру, "Human league" показала замечательную способность одерживать коммерческую и эстетическую победу, причем обычно в наименее предсказуемые моменты.
Дискография The Human League -
Reproduction (1979)
Travelogue (1980)
Dare (1981)
Hysteria (1984)
Crash (1986)
Romantic? (1990)
Octopus (1995)
Secrets (2001)
Credo (2011) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Дебютный альбом группы "Reproduction" продавался неплохо, но все же широкая известность к ним пришла с выходом EP "Holiday, '80". Команда получила возможность поучаствовать в престижном телешоу "Top Of The Pops". Имидж Оуки (пирсинг, "квадратная" стрижка) сделал его центром внимания в группе. Это привело к некоторым трениям внутри коллектива, которые не исчезли даже после попадания в хит-парады их второго альбома "Travelogue".
Дело закончилось скандальным уходом в конце 1980 года Марша и Уэра, которые впоследствии занялись проектами "BEF" и "Heaven 17". На условиях отчисления комиссионных за будущие релизы Марш и Уэр разрешили Оуки оставить за собой название "Human League". Вместо того чтобы взять на их место опытных музыкантов, Оуки пригласил в группу двух девочек-подростков, которых подобрал на одной из дискотек в Шеффилде. Сюзанна Салли (р. 22 марта 1963, Шеффилд, Англия) и Джоанна Катеролл (р. 16 сентября 1962, Шеффилд, Англия) учились в школе и раньше не имели никакого понятия о музыкальном бизнесе. Новый состав "Human league" был доукомплектован басистом Яном Барденом (р. 24 декабря 1957, Шеффилд, Англия) и экс-гитаристом "Rezillos" Джо Коллисом (р. 2 мая 1955, Глазго, Шотландия). Обновленная группа радикально контрастировала с холодным, отчужденным имиджем первоначальной "Human league" и сделала большой уклон в чистый "поп", произведя на свет в течение 1981 года ряд хитов.
"Boys And Girls", "The Sound Of The Crowd", "Love Action" и "Open Your Heart" проложили путь к успеху альбома "Dare!", разошедшегося тиражом более чем в пять миллионов экземпляров. Год закончился выходом сингла-бестселлера "Don't You Want Me", занявшего первую строчку в британских чартах. Этот трек стал также № 1 в США, возглавив британское вторжение "нью-попа".
Human league После этого "Human league" взяли длительный творческий отпуск. Новый альбом 1984 года "Hysteria" был встречен неоднозначно, хотя сопутствующие синглы "The Lebanon", "Life On Your Own" и "Louise" все попали в английский Топ 20. Оуки к концу 1984-го в компании с Джорджио Мородером выпустил на удивление успешный альбом. До выхода следующего альбома "Human league" – "Crash"- прошло два года, в течение которых состав группы покинули Райт и Коллис. В 1990-м "Human league" возвратилась с новым альбомом "Romantic?", который был встречен очень прохладно. После этого группа исчезла из виду на целых пять лет и появилась только в 1995 году с альбомом "Octopus" и рядом хитовых синглов.
Диск был похож свежестью и простотой на "Dare!". Несмотря на свою беспорядочную карьеру, "Human league" показала замечательную способность одерживать коммерческую и эстетическую победу, причем обычно в наименее предсказуемые моменты.
Дискография The Human League -
Reproduction (1979)
Travelogue (1980)
Dare (1981)
Hysteria (1984)
Crash (1986)
Romantic? (1990)
Octopus (1995)
Secrets (2001)
Credo (2011) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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 stuck to his door". Oakey accepted the invitation, despite never having been in a band before. Shortly after, they decided to call themselves The Human League. A collection of demos from this period was released on CD in 2002, titled The Golden Hour of The Future, compiled by Richard X.
The original lineup of The Human League debuted in 1978 with the single "Being Boiled", a dark synth track that would later become extremely influential on later industrial musicians (namely Trent Reznor of the Nine Inch Nails). This single and it's follow-up "Empire State Human" were modest sucesses, however the group's albums - 1979's "Reproduction" and 1980's "Travelogue" - did not sell. This caused a rift in the band, and in 1980, Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware left the group.
Following the split of the original line-up, Phillip Adrian Wright (their live slide projectionist) fully joined the group and Oakey & himself released another flop single, "Boys and Girls". In order to fulfil their European tour commitments, they recruited bass player Ian Burden, and fronted the band with two singers, Susanne Sulley and Joanne Catherall, schoolgirls whom they had met in a Sheffield nightclub, and managed to complete the tour.
In 1981, Virgin Records paired them with former Stranglers producer Martin Rushent, and the first result was the single "The Sound of the Crowd", which saw them at last achieve success in the singles chart. Guitarist Jo Callis (formerly of The Rezillos) was now recruited to the band, and with Rushent at the helm, The Human League recorded their most successful album to date, "Dare!". It achieved huge success, fuelled by its further hit singles, "Open Your Heart", "Love Action" and most famously "Don't You Want Me", which reached number one in the UK charts during the Christmas of 1981 and was one of the biggest selling singles of that year, and it also charted at number one in the US during the summer of 1982. These three releases were accompanied by striking promo videos ("Love Action" based on the movie The Graduate). During their Dare! phase, the Human League were often associated with the New Romantic movement.
The band also had a number of other hits but their success faded towards the mid-1980s. Arguably, one problem was the length of time the band took to make a record. Dare! was followed by the six-song EP Fascination! (featuring hit singles "Mirror Man" and "Fascination") as a stopgap, and it took three years to release a full-length follow-up album, "Hysteria".
In 1985, outside of the Human League, Oakey scored a huge hit single in collaboration with one of his idols, synth pioneer Giorgio Moroder, with the single "Together in Electric Dreams", taken from the film soundtrack to Electric Dreams. The pair proceeded to record an entire album for Virgin, Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, but this met with rather less success.
In 1986, the group found themselves in creative stagnation, struggling to record material to follow up on their previous success. Key songwriter Jo Callis departed, replaced by drummer Jim Russell, and Virgin paired the League up with cutting-edge American R&B producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The result was the "Crash" album. The album featured much material written by Jam and Lewis' team, and showcased their distinctive DX7-led sound, making it quite a departure from previous Human League material. It did provide an American number one single, "Human", but other singles made smaller chart impact.
The following tour saw keyboardist Neil Sutton join the line-up and also keyboardist/guitarist Russell Dennett. Since 1990, their resident engineer on and off stage has been David Beevers. Following Dennett's departure in 1996, Nic Burke has been his replacement for live work since 2001.
The Human League released a new album, Credo in March 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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 stuck to his door". Oakey accepted the invitation, despite never having been in a band before. Shortly after, they decided to call themselves The Human League. A collection of demos from this period was released on CD in 2002, titled The Golden Hour of The Future, compiled by Richard X.
The original lineup of The Human League debuted in 1978 with the single "Being Boiled", a dark synth track that would later become extremely influential on later industrial musicians (namely Trent Reznor of the Nine Inch Nails). This single and it's follow-up "Empire State Human" were modest sucesses, however the group's albums - 1979's "Reproduction" and 1980's "Travelogue" - did not sell. This caused a rift in the band, and in 1980, Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware left the group.
Following the split of the original line-up, Phillip Adrian Wright (their live slide projectionist) fully joined the group and Oakey & himself released another flop single, "Boys and Girls". In order to fulfil their European tour commitments, they recruited bass player Ian Burden, and fronted the band with two singers, Susanne Sulley and Joanne Catherall, schoolgirls whom they had met in a Sheffield nightclub, and managed to complete the tour.
In 1981, Virgin Records paired them with former Stranglers producer Martin Rushent, and the first result was the single "The Sound of the Crowd", which saw them at last achieve success in the singles chart. Guitarist Jo Callis (formerly of The Rezillos) was now recruited to the band, and with Rushent at the helm, The Human League recorded their most successful album to date, "Dare!". It achieved huge success, fuelled by its further hit singles, "Open Your Heart", "Love Action" and most famously "Don't You Want Me", which reached number one in the UK charts during the Christmas of 1981 and was one of the biggest selling singles of that year, and it also charted at number one in the US during the summer of 1982. These three releases were accompanied by striking promo videos ("Love Action" based on the movie The Graduate). During their Dare! phase, the Human League were often associated with the New Romantic movement.
The band also had a number of other hits but their success faded towards the mid-1980s. Arguably, one problem was the length of time the band took to make a record. Dare! was followed by the six-song EP Fascination! (featuring hit singles "Mirror Man" and "Fascination") as a stopgap, and it took three years to release a full-length follow-up album, "Hysteria".
In 1985, outside of the Human League, Oakey scored a huge hit single in collaboration with one of his idols, synth pioneer Giorgio Moroder, with the single "Together in Electric Dreams", taken from the film soundtrack to Electric Dreams. The pair proceeded to record an entire album for Virgin, Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, but this met with rather less success.
In 1986, the group found themselves in creative stagnation, struggling to record material to follow up on their previous success. Key songwriter Jo Callis departed, replaced by drummer Jim Russell, and Virgin paired the League up with cutting-edge American R&B producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The result was the "Crash" album. The album featured much material written by Jam and Lewis' team, and showcased their distinctive DX7-led sound, making it quite a departure from previous Human League material. It did provide an American number one single, "Human", but other singles made smaller chart impact.
The following tour saw keyboardist Neil Sutton join the line-up and also keyboardist/guitarist Russell Dennett. Since 1990, their resident engineer on and off stage has been David Beevers. Following Dennett's departure in 1996, Nic Burke has been his replacement for live work since 2001.
The Human League released a new album, Credo in March 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.