The Human League

The Human League is the name of a British musical group active from around 1977 to the present. The group is notable for its general policy of producing music using electronic instruments only and as such has become to be regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic pop music, also known as synth-pop or more recently as 'electronica',

The group has undergone many personnel changes over its forty year history, most notably when founding members Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh, Philip Oakey and Adrian Wright split into two factions in September 1980 leaving Oakey and Wright with the group name, while Ware and Marsh went on to form the B.E.F. and new group Heaven 17. The Human League then expanded to include two new musicians and songwriters Ian Burden and Jo Callis as well as the two teenagers Susanne Sulley and Joanne Catherall as vocalists, famously recruited by Oakey after seeing them dancing in a Sheffield disco.

After initial success in the early part of the eighties the group has since undergone mixed fortunes and further changes in personnel. Their recording contract with Virgin was terminated after 1990 although the group enjoyed a successful comeback in 1993. Their latest album Credo was issued in 2011. In 2016 the group issued a career-spanning anthology entitled A Very British Synthesizer Group.

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