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The League Unlimited Orchestra: Love And Dance (Virgin) Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 July 1982 LOVE'S THEME, YOUR MAGIC SPELL IS EVERYWHERE ...

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The Human League/Vice Versa: The Now Society, Sheffield University, Sheffield Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 29 July 1978 THE NOW Society, a university-based organisation, has been putting on gigs featuring local, predominantly experimental bands (such are the local mores) for some time now; ...

The Rezillos, The Human League: Music Machine, Camden, London Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 29 August 1978 REZILLOS CAN'T STAND THE AUDIENCE And that goes for all you liggers in the bar, too ...

The Human League, The Mekons, Gang Of Four: Electric Ballroom, London Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978 AN EVENING of Fast Product at which Saturday night anticipation could be discerned in the expectant chattering of the throng outside — no slowcoaches amongst ...

The Human League: The Cyclic And Random Lyric Organisation System Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 24 February 1979 CARLOS for short. IAN BIRCH talks to the Human League, Sheffield Novorockers with a weakness for torch ballads. ...

The Mekons/The Fall/Human League/Gang Of Four/Stiff Little Fingers: The Lyceum, London Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 31 March 1979 AND THE STARS look very different today... For all practical rock purposes, we may as well own up that we are now living in the ...

The Human League: Reproduction (Virgin) Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 6 October 1979 EVERY TV appearance Gary Numan makes must be like a dagger to the heart of The Human League, every radio-play a bit more salt in ...

Human League: The Humour League Have Not Broken Up Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 8 December 1979 Nor The Human League either. GIOVANNI DADOMO finds big laughs, upended bears and assorted cigars in Sheffield. ...

The Concise NME Guide To Electronic Music & Synthesised Sound PART TWO — Synthesisers Overview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 12 January 1980 POMP THE trouble with synthesisers is actually playing them, accepting their status as sound-generators and starting from scratch. Mechanical keyboards were included in early synth ...

The Human League: Travelogue (Virgin V2160) *** Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 May 1980 Paradoxes in industry chic ...

The Human League: Very Ordinary People With Very Odd Tastes Profile and Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 10 July 1980 THE HUMAN League are different. Yes, I know that's the fanfare that's trotted out to greet the arrival of every other new act these days ...

LADIES, GENTS, ANDROIDS, MUTANTS & BIOTRONS A BIG HAND For The Human League Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 12 July 1980 THE HUMAN LEAGUE ADVENTURE IS JUST BEGINNING. The first slide appears on the top left-hand screen. It is rapidly flanked by another: A LONG TIME AGO IN ...

Human League: Half A League Onward Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 7 March 1981 NEVER BEFORE in the annals of male/female relations, in the ongoing man/woman battleground, has there been such a spicy love/hate scenario as in the new ...

The Human League: Beautiful Dreamers Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 8 August 1981 Start with pop with a capital P, add a touch of glamour, stir with a generous helping of amateur enthusiasm and you've got the new ...

The Human League: The Big League Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 14 October 1981 1977 ― progressive, poverty-stricken, "hip". 1981 ― accepted, bankable... (and still "hip"!). Ian Birch charts the past and plots the present with The Human League. ...

The Human League: Dare (Virgin) Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 17 October 1981 SURPRISE! ...the love of human MOR-als ...

The Human League: A Soap Opera Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 17 October 1981 An everyday story of human life starring the HUMAN LEAGUE. Script MARK COOPER ...

The Human League: Human Nature Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 10 December 1981 "YOU'D BETTER watch out," Philip Oakey warns in a voice to make even the hardiest soul tremble at the knees. "We've decided we like that ...

The Human League: Dare (Virgin V2192) Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, February 1982 LAST YEAR'S fracturing of the Human League into two camps held more promise than the usual band breakup. For two albums the original League displayed ...

Martin Rushent: The Genetic Method Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 6 February 1982 Studio Svengali MARTIN RUSHENT earbashes hungry hack Adam Sweeting. ...

In League With The Human League: Dare Essay by Van Gosse, Village Voice, The, 13 April 1982 By the charts, the Human League are the most popular band in the U.K., as well as the most successful of the electropoppers: Depeche Mode, ...

The Human League Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Vogue, May 1982 The Human League are widely acknowledged as this minute's perfect pop group. The following is an account of their perfectly romantic rise in the charts. ...

Human League: Palladium, New York NY Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 22 May 1982 Haughty culture ...

Human League: Dare (A&M); Japan: Japan (Virgin/Epic) Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, June 1982 CONTRARY TO popular belief, all synthesizer bands are not unlistenable. True, many do sound rather like the result of an infinite number of silicon chips ...

The Human League: Dare Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, June 1982 IF THE GUY who built a pinochle-playing computer for his Science Techniques Lab in high school married the gal who wrote poems called "alien/nation" for ...

A Life In The Day Of Martin Rushent Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 5 June 1982 MARTIN RUSHENT, producer of the Human League and Altered Images, talks to MARK COOPER. ...

Human League et al: Synth-Pop Report and Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, August 1982 Music Without Musicians...But Not Without Craftsmanship and Great Songs ...

The Face Interview: Phil Oakey Interview by Lesley White, Face, The, December 1982 I MET UP with Phil Oakey one wet Sheffield Wednesday afternoon over coffee and a Tupperware box of assorted chocolate biscuits, in the Formica-finished kitchen ...

The Human League: Phil Oakey's Five Minute Plan Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 January 1983 WHEN PHIL Oakey was a hospital porter, people used to be dying all around him, and he somehow became immune. It didn't upset him more ...

The Human League: Fascination! (A&M) Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1983 BACK IN THEIR serious-artiste days, before they shed the future Heaven 17 to go POP! with capital P's, the Human League used to attempt to ...

The Human League: Hysteria (Virgin) Review by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 12 May 1984 THIS IS what you've got when you haven't got style: no more masks to hide behind. ...

The Human League: Six Go Completely Bonkers Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 17 July 1985 Three years ago, The Human League were the biggest pop group in the whole world. Their classic single 'Don't You Want Me' had been number ...

Jam & Lewis: Double Funk Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 2 August 1986 "Sorry Lionel, but right now, we're busy with The Human League..." To turn down a job with Mr Richie these days you'd have to be ...

Jimmy "Jam" Harris & Terry Lewis Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, September 1986 FROM 'TENDER LOVE' TO 'NASTY', THEY'RE ALWAYS IN CONTROL ...

The Human League: Flesh And Blood Interview by John McCready, New Musical Express, 20 September 1986 Born to make mistakes? THE HUMAN LEAGUE, CLASS of '81 veterans, saved Phil Oakey from a life on the bins. Jon McCready talks to the ...

The Human League: Crash Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1986 THE CAREER OF The Human League  from Sheffield art-school beginnings to their current miraculous return from the dumper  has been a comedy of ...

Human League: Crash Review by Ira Robbins, Creem, January 1987 I HAVE GRAVE trouble imagining what sort of people would describe themselves as real fans of certain swill that's on the market today. Casual or ...

Human League: Dynasty! Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, February 1987 They bickered their way through six different line-ups. They were consumed by power and ego. They made a fortune and lost it. Tom Hibbert charts ...

Give Human League A Chance Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, March 1987 THEY LIVE IN Sheffield. Because they like it there. Because it's ordinary but sort of esoteric at the same time, straightforward but not stupid, arty ...

Jam And Lewis Take Control Profile and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 23 April 1987 The Grammy Award-winning producers who made Janet Jackson a 'Nasty' superstar have been turning out lots of hits lately ...

The Human League: Leisure Centre, Crawley Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 6 December 1987 A VAGUELY remembered pop song once listed the things that dreams are made of: "London, New York, Paris, Munich, good times." ...

The Human League: Romantic Antics Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 15 September 1990 THE HUMAN LEAGUE are back among us, more serious than ever, not for a last gasp, but completely reinvigorated and rewired – after what ...

Jam & Lewis: Flyte of Fantasy Part II Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 19 January 1993 Jeff Lorez continues his in-depth report on the tenth anniversary of Jam & Lewis's Flyte Tyme Productions. ...

Top Of The Pops and The '80s Brit Pop Boom Overview by Stuart Maconie, Q, November 1994 YOU CAN tell if they're boys or girls these days, that's the trouble. Just look at them, these so-called modern pop phenomena. ...

The Human League: Didn't We Used To Be The Human League? Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, February 1995 WITH SOME groups, it is records on the Stax and Okeh record labels; with others it is fine wines or the tailoring of Messrs Miyake ...

Mistletoe and Whine Report by Susan Corrigan, Observer, The, 17 December 1995 Schmaltz, schlock: and Slade. It's Christmas at Top Of The Pops and there's no need to be afraid ...

Human Remains: The Human League Retrospective and Interview by Paul Lester, Guardian, The, 13 July 2001 Two decades after their synthpop assault on the charts, the Human League are back. ...

The Human League: Don't you want them? Maybe Profile and Interview by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 15 July 2001 Sheffield synth-pop trio the Human League haven't always had it easy, but they've never given up. Simon Price met them as they prepare to stage ...

The Human League: Are Friends Electro? Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001 JOANNE CATHERALL (the brunette one) has been relatively quiet throughout the interview, content to pick through her lunch while Susanne Sulley (the blonde one) and ...

The Human League: Dare/Love And Dancing 21st Anniversary Edition Review and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Joel McIver, Record Collector, November 2002 THE LATE '70s/early '80s were a period of enormous fast-track development in popular culture. The flood of cheap technology ensured that machines that went ping ...

Human League/Kim Wilde/Altered Images et al: Cardiff Arena Live Review by Lisa Verrico, Times, The, 20 December 2002 YOU CAN LOOK back as fondly on the '80s as you like, but the truth is the music back then was as hit-and-miss as it ...

The Here And Now Tour: Many Happy Returns Report and Interview by Pete Paphides, Guardian, The, 8 March 2003 To some, the Here And Now Tour is a has-beens cabaret, to others it's a harmless trip down memory lane. Peter Paphides reports from the ...

Phil Oakey Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 28 November 2003 IT IS 22 YEARS since the number one single 'Don't You Want Me' turned The Human League from underground Sheffield electro boffins into champions of ...

Martin Lilleker: Beats Working For A Living – Sheffield Popular Music 1973-1984 (Juma) Book Review by Rob Young, Wire, The, July 2005 PRACTICALLY EVERY city in Britain has a roster of musical hod carriers with appalling names. This exhaustive history of Sheffield's music scene is crammed with ...

ABC/Human League/Heaven 17: Hammersmith Apollo, London Live Review by Paul Lester, Guardian, The, 10 December 2008 THERE ARE QUEUES around the building for the Sheffield groups who brought electro-funk (Heaven 17), orchestral disco (ABC) and synth pop (the Human League) to ...

The Steel City Tour: Human League, ABC and Heaven 17 at the Hammersmith Apollo Live Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, February 2009 THE STEEL CITY TOUR is a thrilling glimpse of the once- future through the lens of the past. What these groups attempted in Sheffield at ...

Make A Date: Phil Oakey and the Human League Interview by John Lewis, Metro, November 2010 NEARLY THIRTY years ago, as the Human League were about to become the biggest band on earth, we had a recession, a Tory government enacting ...

Forgive Us Our Synths – How 80s Pop Found Favour Again Overview by Dorian Lynskey, Guardian, The, 18 November 2010 Ostentatiously intellectual and scornful of rock'n'roll cliche, the likes of OMD and Heaven 17 briefly set 80s pop alight – and now they're back in favour. ...

The Human League: Credo/Blancmange: Blanc Burn Review by John McCready, Word, The, April 2011 Shiny new albums by Blancmange and the Human League show they'll stop at nothing in the service of "electronic ideals". ...

The Things That Dreams Are Made Of Retrospective and Interview by Neil Mason, electronic, July 2012 Studios with leaking roofs, trips to new romantic clubs in a little Hillman Imp, and a heavy metal single recorded between sessions. They're all part ...

see also British Electric Foundation

see also Heaven 17

see also League Unlimited Orchestra, The

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