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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).
"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 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 ...
The lyrics make much of human mistakes and the need for human forgiveness in a thoroughly romantic context." [ 8 ] Erstwhile Human League producer Martin Rushent – who helmed the platinum-selling Dare (1981) and Love and Dancing (1982) albums – disapproved of the track, lamenting that it "just wasn't what [he] imagined the future for the ...
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 ...
Neil Sutton is an English musician, known for being a long term touring member for the synthpop group The Human League.He is best known as the on stage and studio keyboard player, but also has written various lyrics and composed instrumental tracks for the band and has numerous Human League album credits.
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]
We don't want to change anything about it. And by the way, the songs we wrote, we're going to finish them the way we want to finish them. That's the way it should be. The songs they wrote they can finish them however they want to, but our songs we're going to finish them the way we want to finish them." And he said, "That sounds fair.