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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 ...
The Human League then evolved into a commercially successful new pop band, [2] with the line-up comprising Oakey, Wright, vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley, bassist and keyboard player Ian Burden and guitarist and keyboard player Jo Callis. Wright, Burden and Callis all left the band by the end of the 1980s, since which time the ...
Until then, she and the other female vocalist, Joanne Catherall, had only been assigned backing vocals; Sulley says she was chosen only through "luck of the draw". [10] Musicians Jo Callis and Philip Adrian Wright created a synthesizer score to accompany the lyrics that was much harsher than the version that was actually released.
In keeping with the promotional videos from the previous album, there is no storyline. Only Oakey, Sulley and Catherall appear, all dressed in black against a futuristic white set. As the band's age was a contentious issue, the standard filmmakers' technique of making the band appear younger by the use of bright lighting and high exposure is ...
"Heart Like a Wheel" is a song by English synth-pop band The Human League. It was the first single to be taken from the Romantic? album (1990), and was written by former band member Jo Callis with Eugene Reynolds (of the Rezillos) and features vocals by Philip Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley; with synthesizer by Neil Sutton.
The video also alludes to Philip Oakey and Joanne Catherall's real lifelong term relationship, with the couple sharing a bath (Oakley fully dressed, Carherall in a swimsuit) and other intimate moments on camera. The video was called "too arty" at the time, and the story that it was trying to tell was never fully understood by the public. [2]
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As on the previous album Octopus, the band was presented as a trio of singers – Philip Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley (credited by her married name, Susan Ann Gayle, which she would drop professionally in October 2007), although band member Neil Sutton contributed songwriting and keyboards.