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Goud/Platina – NVPI Audio" (To access, enter the search parameter "The Human League" and select "Search") (in Dutch). NVPI . Retrieved 12 June 2020. In 2003, a new video was created and released to promote the Chinese Whispers mix. This music video used the original footage of Oakey, Sulley and Catherall from 1986 and interlaced it with traditional Chinese imagery of silhouetted water grass, water lilies and Chinese characters. It was subject of a U.S. MTV featurette which was introduced by Oakey and featured Ian Widgery talking about the creative process in the reworking of the original "Human". a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.262. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

The Human League: (Keep Feeling) Fascination". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 June 2020. In 2003, a second single from Secrets, " Love Me Madly?", was released independently as a private venture by Nukove, a small independent label especially set up to release Human League material, but it did not have funds for promotion and the single did not chart. [33] Also in 2003, Virgin records released The Very Best of The Human League, a DVD of most of their previously recorded music videos. The DVD sold well in the UK and US and was accompanied by a compilation album of the same name. By this time, the band's commercial success and higher profile had caused their first two albums to start selling again. Reproduction charted for the first time in August 1981, eventually peaking at No.34, and Travelogue also recharted and returned to the Top 30 for several weeks. Both albums would eventually achieve Gold status. In October 1981, Virgin released a brand new single, " Open Your Heart", which gave the band another Top 10 hit. The band's new album, Dare, was also released in October 1981 and reached No.1 in the UK. It spent a total of four weeks at the top spot over the 1981/82 period, remaining in the chart for 77 weeks and eventually going triple platinum. Robert Smith of the Cure cited the song as an influence for their 1992 album, Wish. "For every album we do, I assemble a bunch of songs that have something that I'm trying to capture. For Wish, I would listen to ' Mesmerise' by Chapterhouse for its feeling of abandon and 'Human' by The Human League. You couldn't spot anything sonically or structurally that would influence anything we did, but there's an indefinable something that I'm trying to capture", Smith said in 1993. [ citation needed]

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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 August 1978 the band recorded a session for John Peel, including a re-worked version of "Being Boiled." [10]

British certifications – Human League – All The Best". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 March 2023. Platinum and Gold Singles 1982". Kent Music Report. 28 February 1983 . Retrieved 10 November 2021– via Imgur.European Hot 100 Singles – Hot 100 of the Year 1986" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.3, no.51/52. 27 December 1986. p.29. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. Line-of-Sight Name: The group took its name from a faction in the Sci-Fi Tabletop Game Starforce: Alpha Centauri. Hot 100 Songs – Year-End 1986". Billboard. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020 . Retrieved 27 February 2020. 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.

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. Bob Last believed that the band could be improved further by the addition of one more professional musician, so in April 1981, his associate Jo Callis (formerly of The Rezillos whom Last had previously managed) was invited to become the final permanent member of the band. The next single, " Love Action (I Believe in Love)", reached No.3 in the UK in August 1981. The band set about arranging their existing material and demos into a viable album, produced by Rushent. Sulley and Catherall, who had just left school, immediately postponed their plans to attend university to work on the album. The Human League has influenced many electropop, other synth-pop, and mainstream performers, including Pet Shop Boys. [ citation needed] Moby and Little Boots are longtime fans of the group. [46] [47] They have been sampled and covered by various artists, including Ladytron, Utah Saints, George Michael, Robbie Williams and LCD Soundsystem. [ citation needed] Troubled Production: Their third album Dare had a much more troublesome production than the band's previous two albums, which were flops.

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Love Is All That Matters" and "Tell Me When": "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-07-15". Imgur. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015 . Retrieved 1 February 2016. [ bettersourceneeded] Lineup changes and rise in popularity [ edit ] The Human League in 1984. Members: Catherall, Callis, Wright, Oakey, Sulley, Burden DeCurtis, Anthony (20 November 1986). "Talking Heads tell 'True Stories'; Fogerty's 'Zombie' misses mark". Rolling Stone. No.487. p.125 . Retrieved 1 June 2022– via The Tuscaloosa News. 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.