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"Keep Feeling) Fascination" is a song by English synth-pop band the Human League. It was composed by Jo Callis and Philip Oakey, and produced by Martin Rushent (which would be the last song he produced for the band for seven years).
Fascination! is an EP released by English synth-pop band The Human League in 1983. The EP was issued as a stop-gap release in between the albums Dare (1981) and Hysteria (1984). Released in the US and Canada, it was made available in Europe as an import.
Throughout their career, their songs differed from the predominant synth-pop British sound of the early 1980s, [2] instead fusing together 1960s rock and post-punk. [9] In their early years, the band purposely rejected synthesisers and dance music , [ 10 ] until Meat Is Murder , which contained keyboards as well as rockabilly and funk ...
Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical" was the Billboard Hot 100's longest running number one of the decade.. Reflecting on changes in the music industry during the 1980s, Robert Christgau later wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990):
Every Breath You Take" by The Police (singer Sting pictured) was the number one song of 1983. Michael Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1983. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1983. [1] [2]
Soon after, the single was picked up by Top 40 radio, and it charted on the Billboard Hot 100 spending eight weeks in the Top 40 in May and June 1987, [3] peaking at #21. [4] It became Company B's most successful hit single in the U.S. and is one of the first freestyle songs to enter the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. [5]
[1] [3] Slovak returned to the band for the George Clinton-produced Freaky Styley (1985). [1] Their pure funk album, its songs are noticeably influenced by Clinton and Slovak, whose guitar playing helped shape the group as a cohesive unit. [1] [4] The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) was produced by Michael Beinhorn and featured all four founding ...
[3] [4] Co-produced with the Dust Brothers, the album's songs are almost entirely composed of samples, aside from the group's vocals. [6] Paul's Boutique marked the group's longtime collaboration with Mario Caldato Jr. [7] Check Your Head (1992) featured instrumentation from all three members and was less sample-heavy than their previous albums ...