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At this stage, The Human League commandeered an adjoining commercial recording studio (Axis, now called Manna) where Ian Stanley re‑located with his Mitsubishi 32‑track and set to work. A strict work schedule was established with constant liaison between the two studios.
PHIL OAKEY – Ian used to come up to Sheffield quite a lot and he used to drop into the studio. JOANNE CATHERALL – I think that, if we’re all in the same hotels on the tour, then we’ll end up sitting down with them and having a drink after the show…
Entry into music. Oakey's entry into music in 1977 was unintentional. He purchased a saxophone but abandoned efforts to learn how to play it, and he had no aspiration to be in a pop group. In Sheffield in 1977, Oakey's former schoolmate Martyn Ware, along with Ian Craig Marsh and Adi Newton, [7] had formed a band called the Future.
Feb 13, 2012 · I loved everything about the Dare phase of the League, but it was not until I was in my late teens that I discovered the original all-male incarnation of the band – with Martyn Ware and Ian ...
Nov 16, 2023 · The Human League's bandleader and founder Phil Oakey wrote 'Don't You Want Me', their only constant member since the band was founded in 1977. After reading a photo-story in a girl's teen magazine, Oakey penned the iconic lyrics about meeting a waitress in a cocktail bar.
Formed in Sheffield in 1977 by Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, the original incarnation of the Human League had little time for the frivolities of pop music. For their first single Being Boiled , singer Phil Oakey wrote about the plight of silkworms (“Boiled alive for some god’s stocking”) .
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Nov 28, 2008 · We [the Human League] are more resigned to working live. We’ve done it for years and years and years now. At the end of the year, we’re going to go out and do a live tour, because after thirty years, we’ve realised that it’s our job.
