When the Human League’s album ‘Dare’ was released in 1981 it heralded a major new departure for the group as Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left the band to form the British Electric Foundation and later Heaven 17, while Phil Oakey recruited Joanne Catherall and Susanne Sulley and along with Philip Adrian Wright and producer Martin Rushent set about creating this truly innovatory album.
I remember watching Martin Rushent on TV talking about using the Linn Drum machine on this album and the other ways that the group had created their unique ‘sound’ and as synthesisers were becoming less expensive and capable of being programmed to produce more and more exciting sounds and that coupled with Phil Oakey’s truly amazing voice enhanced by the female backing singers this was indeed a winning combination.
The Human League had a number of Hits during the 1980s with ‘Don’t You Want Me’ (Song 51) perhaps being the most famous but this is the one that started it all off for me….
Now listen to the song…..
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