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"Don't You Want Me" is a song by British synth-pop group the Human League (credited on the cover as the Human League 100). It was released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album, Dare (1981).
At the height of their success, The Human League released the triple platinum-certified studio album Dare (1981) and Oakey co-wrote and sang the multimillion-selling single "Don't You Want Me", a #1 single in both the US and UK, where it remains the 28th-highest-selling single of all time. Oakey has been lead vocalist of The Human League for ...
The single "Don't You Want Me" was released with an expensive and elaborate promotional video created by film maker Steve Barron. Music videos were a relatively new phenomenon, and cable TV station MTV had only just started up to capitalise on this new media but had very little material to work with. Virgin Records syndicated the video to MTV ...
Susan Ann Sulley (born 22 March 1963), [1] formerly known as Susanne Sulley and Susan Ann Gayle, is an English singer.She is one of the two female vocalists in the synth-pop band The Human League, contributing co-lead vocals on the conflicting duet "Don't You Want Me" with the band's founding member and lead singer Philip Oakey.
The Human League Video Single: VHS, Beta: Contains videos for "Mirror Man", "Love Action" and "Don't You Want Me". 1988 Human League Greatest Hits: VHS, LD: Tie-in with 1988 Greatest Hits, containing videos for all tracks on that album except "Being Boiled" and "Love Is All That Matters", plus "Circus of Death". 1995 The Human League Greatest ...
"Don't You Want Me" became the band's biggest hit, selling almost 1.5 million copies in the UK. [20] Dare has since been labelled as one of pop music's most influential albums. [21] In a retrospective review of the album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for AllMusic, gave Dare a five-star rating. He wrote: "The technology may have dated ...
The song was released as a single in the UK in November 1982. It was the first new single the band had released since the phenomenal success of "Don't You Want Me" almost a year earlier. The single was tipped by the media to be the band's second Christmas number-one single in the UK, but peaked just short, at number two. [4]
Joanne Catherall (born 18 September 1962) [1] is an English singer who is one of two female vocalists in the English synth-pop band The Human League.. In 1980, when Catherall had just turned 18 and was still at school doing A levels, she and her best friend Susan Ann Sulley were discovered in Sheffield's Crazy Daisy Nightclub by Philip Oakey, the lead singer and a founding member of The Human ...