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Martyn Ware (born 19 May 1956) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and music programmer. As a founding member of both the Human League and Heaven 17 , [ 1 ] Ware co-wrote hit songs such as " Being Boiled " and " Temptation ".
Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware were the founding members of pioneering Sheffield synthpop group the Human League; Glenn Gregory (who had previously been in a punk band called Musical Vomit with Marsh) had been their original choice when seeking a lead singer for the band but as he had moved to London to work as a photographer at the time, they chose Ware's school friend Philip Oakey instead. [2]
Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17, leaving Oakey and Adrian Wright to assemble a new line-up. 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 ...
How British synthpop pioneer Martyn Ware helped launch Tina Turner's unlikely '80s comeback: 'She had very little to lose by trying new stuff' Lyndsey Parker. May 30, 2023 at 5:48 PM.
Name Martyn Ware Best known for Heaven 17, BEF, early Human League, Tina Turner, and Sananda Maitreya productions, my 3D soundscape company Illustrious. Current city London Really want to be in ...
The B.E.F. line-up consisted of Martyn Ware on keyboards, a guitarist/keyboardist and a bassist, with Glenn Gregory and Billie Godfrey, Heaven 17's female vocalist. [7] Setlist: The aforementioned "Free" Heaven 17's "Let Me Go" (Gregory revealing that it was MacKenzie's favourite Heaven 17 track)
Martyn Ware, the musician and producer behind British synth-pop bands The Human League and Heaven 17, has claimed he was offered a one-off payment of just £5,700 to have H17’s hit song ...
The tracks were written and performed by The Human League featuring a line-up of Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh and Phil Oakey. It was released as the follow-up to their earlier single "Being Boiled" (b/w "Circus of Death") on Fast Product Records, the label on which the band released their early singles.