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Boxed Set: 2022's The Virgin Years is a five-LP set containing all of the Mark II lineup's studio albums on Virgin Records plus the EP Fascination!, each on color-coded vinyl (the two Mark I albums, Reproduction and Travelogue, are omitted). Consequently, the set marks the first time Romantic? was reissued outside of Japan since its original 1990 release, having previously been thrown into Canon Discontinuity by Virgin on account of its critical and commercial underperformance.

Finally in May 1984, the band released the politically charged single " The Lebanon" about the Lebanese Civil War. The single peaked at No.11 in the UK. This was followed shortly thereafter by the album Hysteria, so called because of the difficult and tense recording process. It entered the UK album chart at No.3; however, it climbed no further and critics and fans were divided by the new direction the band had taken. The second single was " Life on Your Own" in mid-1984. The single peaked at No.16. In November 1982, the Motown influenced electropop single " Mirror Man" reached No.2 in the UK chart, just missing another Christmas No.1, which was taken by a novelty record by Renée and Renato. [18] In 2003, a new video was created and released to promote the Chinese Whispers mix. This music video used the original footage of Oakey, Sulley and Catherall from 1986 and interlaced it with traditional Chinese imagery of silhouetted water grass, water lilies and Chinese characters. It was subject of a U.S. MTV featurette which was introduced by Oakey and featured Ian Widgery talking about the creative process in the reworking of the original "Human". The Human League: The Best of the Human League". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 June 2020.

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In 2023, they were one of the headliners at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, California however they had to cut short their performance due to storms. [45] Legacy and influence [ edit ] In addition to Sulley and Catherall, Oakey employed professional musician Ian Burden from Sheffield synth band Graph as a session keyboard player for the tour to cover for the keyboards of the now departed Ware and Marsh. [ citation needed]

The Human League / A Very British Synthesizer Group: four-disc anthology". superdeluxeedition.com . Retrieved 29 September 2016. The Cash Box Year-End Charts: 1986 – Top 100 Pop Singles". Cash Box. 27 December 1986 . Retrieved 27 February 2020. a b c d "The Human League | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 17 June 2022. And No, "Hard Times" is neither the Paramore song nor the Jetzons song that served as the basis for the IceCap Zone theme, despite being the same genre in both cases.It's from a crash cymbal, because it's a disco album again with lots of cymbals. One day somebody said “what sorts of cymbals do you want, a ride or a crash?”, and we thought, “what a great title!” The Human League / A Very British Synthesizer Group: four-disc anthology". superdeluxeedition.com. 14 September 2016 . Retrieved 22 November 2016. After four months in Minneapolis, a sidelined Philip Oakey pulled the band out of further recording. They returned to Sheffield leaving Jam and Lewis to complete the album using session musicians. Oakey said later:

Circus of Fear: "Circus of Death" depicts a monstrous Eldritch Abomination that takes the form of a constantly-growing circus led by a Monster Clown, who placates the circus' victims with the Fantastic Drug "dominion" before annihilating all of humanity. In 1982, the band received the Best British Newcomer award at the annual Brit Music awards, and Rushent also took Best Producer for his work on Dare. Height Angst: "Empire State Human" is about a guy who loathes his short height and desires to be as tall as a skyscraper. The band themselves were prominently influenced by Yellow Magic Orchestra, to the point of using the Roland MC-8 microprocessor that YMO brought to fame. They would later get the chance to collaborate with the Japanese band on the EP YMO Versus The Human League.

Offiziellecharts.de – The Human League – Human" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 27 February 2020. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2004. pp.397–398. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. King of Kings" and "Reach Out I'll Be there" from their Golden Hour of the Future demo as the Future.