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Title: The Human League and the Sheffield Electro Scene On Track
Condition: New
Subtitle: Every Album, Every Song
EAN: 9781789521863
ISBN: 9781789521863
Publisher: Sonicbond Publishing
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 26/08/2022
Description: Sheffield in the late-1970s was isolated from what was happening in London in the same way that Liverpool had been in 1963. A unique generation of electro-experimental groupings evolved in the former Steel City around Cabaret Voltaire and The Future. The Future split into two factions, Clock DVA and The Human League. Then The Human League split into two further factions, Heaven 17, and The Human League as we now know them, fronted by Philip Oakey with Joanne Catherall and Susan Sulley. Dare became one of the most iconic albums of the eighties; the album by which Human League are most instantly recognised. It is a musically ambitious album, both driven and voracious album, with giddy grenades of shared inventiveness. A triumph of content over considerable style, at once phenomenally commercial and gleefully avant-garde. The American success of 'Don't You Want Me', accelerated by the high-gloss movie-quality video, exploiting the band's extreme visual appeal, heralded what was soon termed the Second British Invasion. It was the first of two Human League singles to top the American charts. This book tells the full story, from the band's origins in Sheffield, through the full arc of Human League and the very early Heaven 17 hits, and the albums - track-by-track, into the twenty-first century...
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 148mm
Author: Andrew Darlington
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Book Series: On Track
Release Year: 2022

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