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The Human League often added cryptic references to their productions and the record sleeve of "Don't You Want Me" featured the suffix of "100". This was a reference to The 100 Club, a restaurant/bar in Sheffield .
Oakey was born on 2 October 1955 in Hinckley, Leicestershire.He is of Indian, Irish and Malaysian descent [citation needed].Oakey's father worked for the General Post Office and moved jobs regularly: the family moved to Coventry when Oakey was an infant, to Leeds when he was five and to Birmingham when he was nine, attending Catherine-de-Barnes primary school near Solihull and gaining a ...
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.
"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 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 ...
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 ...
Apparently Scott DM'd Kristin, and she straight-up read his message out loud to listeners, saying “I’m going to read it to you guys because I don’t give a flying fuck anymore.
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]