The Human League / A Very British Synthesizer Group: four-disc anthology". superdeluxeedition.com. 14 September 2016 . Retrieved 22 November 2016. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.143. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

The Human League: (Keep Feeling) Fascination". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 June 2020. I’ve wondered if Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis didn’t exactly give Human League their best work, or maybe they tried and it just didn’t work. According to the Wikipedia article on Crash, there were creative clashes and the other members of Human League were basically sidelined. 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.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. 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.

Guterman, Jimmy (6 January 1987). "Off The Record". The Boston Phoenix. 16 (1): 28 . Retrieved 10 August 2023. Oakey has stated that upon discovering the girls were only teenagers and also best friends, he invited them both so they could look after each other on the tour for safety. He has also said that he thought having two women as vocalists and dancers would also add glamour to the band. Because of the girls' ages, Oakey and Wright later had to visit Sulley and Catherall's respective parents to obtain permission for the girls to go on the tour. Their parents let them join the band under the provision that Oakey would keep them safe. Sulley also reported that both her father and Catherall's went to the girls' school and convinced them that the experience of touring could be highly educational because of the travelling involved. [16] TLC vs. Little Boots: Exclusive New York Interview". Tasteslikecaramel.wordpress.com. 26 February 2009 . Retrieved 30 January 2014.

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Offiziellecharts.de – The Human League – Human" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 27 February 2020. The band has been the subject of, and appeared in, various TV documentaries and features, including Channel 4's Made in Sheffield and the BBC's Young Guns: The Bands of the Early 1980s. In June 2007, Sulley and Catherall presented a documentary on Sheffield's pop music history entitled The Nation's Music Cities for VH1.

Ian Burden, Ian Craig Marsh, Jim Russell, Jo Callis, Joanne Catherall, Martyn Ware, Neil Sutton, Philip Adrian Wright, Philip Oakey, Russell Dennett, Susanne SulleyPareles, Jon (8 February 1987). "The Human League plays the Ritz". The New York Times . Retrieved 24 July 2015. Line-of-Sight Name: The group took its name from a faction in the Sci-Fi Tabletop Game Starforce: Alpha Centauri. A parody of the song was performed by Gloria Estefan on The Rosie O'Donnell Show in 1998, under the title "Cuban". [38] On 11 December 2009, the Human League signed a new recording contract with UK based Wall of Sound. [37] They also have their own studio in Sheffield [38] and are managed by Sidewinder Management Ltd. The band continue to record and play live, with regular appearances at music festivals worldwide, at many of which they are among the headliners. The final result of the sessions was the Crash album. The album featured much material written by the Jam and Lewis team, and showcased their Yamaha DX7-led sound. It had a US No.1 single, " Human" (No.8 in the UK), but other singles performed relatively poorly. The album, while making the Top 10 in the UK, was not as popular as previous releases. Disheartened by being sidelined in Minneapolis and with the direction the band had taken, Adrian Wright left the band to work in film. Crash was generally more popular in the US and internationally than in the UK. The band toured in the UK and internationally in 1986 and 1987 to capitalise on their high-profile at this time.