Human League – Don’t You Want Me (1981)
Posted on December 12, 2011
Human League began in the late 1970s as the brainchild of two computer operators, Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware, from Sheffield, England. They tried a number of names including the Dead Daughters and the Future until settling upon the Human League after former hospital porter, Philip Oakey, joined the group. Adrian Wright joined shortly thereafter to prepare slide shows for projection during the group’s live performances. The first single, Being Boiled, was released in 1978, but the group did not make the charts in the UK until the release of Holiday 80 in the spring of 1980. As a result the Human League’s second album Travelogue made the UK Top 20. By 1980 the Human League began to feel strain between the pop music favored by Philip Oakey and Adrian Wright and the more austere electronic sounds favored by Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware. In October 1980 the group split in half. Ware and Marsh left to begin a project called the British Electric Foundation whose first spinoff was the group Heaven 17 and their hit (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang. Of the remaining Human League pair, only Philip Oakey was a performer. With determination to complete a European tour, Adrian Wright began learning to play synthesizer and two female singers, Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall, were recruited from among the dancers at Sheffield’s Crazy Daisy disco. Bassist Ian Burden was also added as a temporary group member. Early in 1981 the new Human League hooked up with …
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Tags: Crazy Daisy, Group Member, Sheffield England
Categories: 80's makeup
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Wow, he even wears high heels! (seen at 0:48-0:52)
14.12.2011 20:39
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Echt super….. Weist du noch im caribik
16.12.2011 05:26
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@dynelol jingly jangly earrings with little chains too. errr
17.12.2011 17:18
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Its a trap.
19.12.2011 05:29
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@sirazzatron You got that RIGHT !
19.12.2011 09:01
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I don’t care what anyone says, i still love this stuff….
20.12.2011 04:53
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Theme song from Montego Bay in Belmar N.J.
21.12.2011 14:19
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@nialuvsboyz Fun yes, but 80s fashions ****** – think about looking out over a sea of bad perms, massive shoulder pads, synthetic jackets, puffy-thighed pants. Not like this vid.
22.12.2011 17:00
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wtf is jamie lee curtis doing singing on the stage?!
23.12.2011 04:17
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the instruments arent plugged in :p
23.12.2011 19:21
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@BigDirtyBasterd
They’re still together. The only difference is he shaved his head and looks silly.
24.12.2011 06:21
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2011 1st time seein this video.i didnt know this dude was…colorful
27.12.2011 10:09
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uhhhuh she got the nasty stuff in here mouth
if you no what i mean
28.12.2011 06:40
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that would be funny she’d lift here arm up and there was a forest
30.12.2011 02:22
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Okay, just a question: is Joanne Catherall so sweet here or is she so sweet here? You cannot resist her!
31.12.2011 02:04
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awesome!!!!
31.12.2011 22:48
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Wow! Great background notes! thanks.
01.01.2012 19:01
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thanks for the time capsule back to the 80s…
03.01.2012 08:41
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I would lick those girls clean
03.01.2012 16:22
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Where is he now?
05.01.2012 09:09
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i’ve been told that the guy with most make-up gets the most girls(80′s) soooooo yeah he was getting laid like crazy!!!
08.01.2012 14:31
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he is wearing whole make up + earrings…
09.01.2012 08:08
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I think he’s waring lipstick.
11.01.2012 12:47
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oh how i love new wave………….
14.01.2012 19:32
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From Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” to this… the women’s independence movement has changed.
17.01.2012 04:14