Human League record first album for nine years". Sheffield Telegraph. 14 January 2010 . Retrieved 30 January 2014. Humberstone, Nigel (April 1995). "Phil Oakey: The Human League". Sound on Sound . Retrieved 23 June 2013.

At the end of 2012, the band undertook the 'XXXV Tour' across Europe and the UK to celebrate 35 years in existence. The shows were critically acclaimed. The UK's Daily Telegraph said "as good a night's entertainment as you are likely to find anywhere on the planet". [41] After Hysteria, the group found themselves in creative stagnation, struggling to record material to follow up on their previous successes. Key songwriter Jo Callis departed, replaced by drummer Jim Russell. Bob Last quit as manager and was not replaced. In 1985, the band spent several months working on a new album with producer Colin Thurston (who had produced "I Don't Depend on You", Reproduction, and the first two Duran Duran albums), but yet more clashes in the recording studio ensued and the project was shelved in September 1985. [27] I wondered already then, why they choose that totaly sub-par song "I need your Loving" as a 2nd single. It almost ruined their name.

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Human" was reworked and re-released in 2003 as a remix in the form of "The Chinese Whispers Mix", principally in Chinese territories. It was the creation of Hong Kong based British producer Ian Widgery who had recently had major success in the Chinese music market with the album Shanghai Lounge Divas. Widgery took the original, mixed in traditional Chinese instruments and recorded a new chorus in Mandarin by female Chinese vocalist Li Ya, which is interwoven with Oakey, Catherall and Sulley's vocals. Oakey's lead vocals are faded to give the music greater impact. Because the imposed style had not worked, Virgin permitted the band to return to their original style and the band recorded and released their first full studio album Reproduction in August 1979. The album and the single " Empire State Human" failed to make an impact on the charts. After these flops, Virgin cancelled the band's December 1979 tour. By this time, the Human League's role as UK electronic pioneers was usurped by Gary Numan, when his single " Are 'Friends' Electric?" became a huge hit in the UK in mid-1979. [7] [ unreliable source?] Pareles, Jon (1 August 1998). "POP REVIEW; Early 80's Return, With English Artifice". The New York Times . Retrieved 10 September 2011. We like to be in control in the studio. We don't like giving that up to a producer. That's why we had a big, final argument, and we just decided to go home and leave them to finish it off. It just got to the point of who had the power, and in that instance...They were the men behind the mixing console, so they had ultimate control. Offiziellecharts.de – The Human League – Human" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 27 February 2020.

The Human League were one of the headline acts in the line-up at Spillers Wharf on 30 May 2009, in the Newcastle/Gateshead Evolution festival, and were one of the headline bands for Dubai's first music festival, the 'Dubai Sound City' festival, between 5 and 7 November 2009. norwegiancharts.com - Discography The Human League". norwegiancharts.com . Retrieved 19 August 2009.Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped, etched, variant 1): V 2391 B-2U-1- x̶x̶x̶ D TOWN HOUSE DMM 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.

British certifications – Human League – Don't You Want Me". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 13 April 2023. The band themselves were prominently influenced by Yellow Magic Orchestra, to the point of using the Roland MC-8 microprocessor that YMO brought to fame. They would later get the chance to collaborate with the Japanese band on the EP YMO Versus The Human League. After four months in Minneapolis, a sidelined Philip Oakey pulled the band out of further recording. They returned to Sheffield leaving Jam and Lewis to complete the album using session musicians. Oakey said later: While still working on the album, the band issued the single "The Sound of the Crowd", which Virgin reluctantly promoted, only to see it become their first Top 40 hit. Virgin then asked for two more singles, again before the album was even finished, causing some stress with the recording process. Virgin's idea paid off: "Love Action (I Believe In Love)" and "Open Your Heart" were even bigger hits, both reaching the Top 10. Around this time, guitarist Jo Callis was added as the band's sixth and final member late in to the album's production.

Re-release the Song: After the group's rise to popularity with Dare!, their debut single "Being Boiled" was re-released and went to Number Six. It's from a crash cymbal, because it's a disco album again with lots of cymbals. One day somebody said “what sorts of cymbals do you want, a ride or a crash?”, and we thought, “what a great title!” Although the subject of retirement is often brought up in interviews, Oakey, Sulley and Catherall have all stated that they still enjoy performing and intend to carry on for "as long as they are filling concerts and people want to see them". Sulley has joked that she "has to carry on because she doesn't know how to do anything else". [39] 2010s: Credo and further tours [ edit ] At Paradiso, Netherlands, in April 2011. From left to right: Joanne Catherall, Phil Oakey and Neil Sutton. The Human League has released 9 studio albums, a live album, a remix album, 13 compilations, 6 extended plays and 29 singles.

a b "Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". www.collectionscanada.gc.ca . Retrieved 30 June 2011.a b "American certifications – Human League". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 21 August 2021. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.143. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Chartverfolgung / HUMAN LEAGUE / Longplay". www.musicline.de (in German) . Retrieved 16 April 2010. Troubled Production: Their third album Dare had a much more troublesome production than the band's previous two albums, which were flops. Follow-up “Love Action (I Believe In Love)” intensified the dance dynamic still further and made it all the way to the UK Top 3 in the summer of 1981, with The Human League finding themselves Top Of The Pops regulars. It was perfect timing – the UK music scene was in a freshly confident mood. Magazines like Smash Hits and The Face were helping telegraph a soap-opera narrative of high-street glamour and kitchen-sink creativity, also shaped by the growing reliance on pop promos to help sell a song. The Human League had a strong look that played perfectly into that.