HUMAN LEAGUE

HUMAN LEAGUE

  • The Human League are Philip Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susanne Sulley - founders Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left in 1980 to form Heaven 17

  • Don’t You Want Me? is their biggest selling single - it was the biggest selling single of 1981 and has sold 1.5m to date.

  • The League were voted Best Newcomers at the 1982 Brit Awards

 
Dare album review - by Van Gosse, Village Voice (April 1982). 

"It is... because of the League's knowing, slick superficiality and superfluousness, their wellmade void, that I cleave to them. Their LP, Dare, gives up neither heartfullness nor deathmanship. There's no edge of passion or despair, not even flash or raucous good times. Dare gives up nothing at all. It remains a pure beat-for-itself... In a historical and relative sense, then, I would contend that the Human League are the first true "white disco", if one understands that "white" in this context refers to the appropriation of an original style – "black" as in r'n'b, soul, blues, or funk – by amateur enthusiasts (or opportunists, or both) who recombine, reduce, and simplify the primary elements."

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Date Title, Artist, (Label) Peak Position Weeks Weeks at No.1
03/05/1980

HOLIDAY 80 (DOUBLE SINGLE)

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin SV 105)

 56 5 0
21/06/1980

EMPIRE STATE HUMAN

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 351)

 62 2 0
28/02/1981

BOYS AND GIRLS

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 395)

 48 4 0
02/05/1981

THE SOUND OF THE CROWD

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 416)

 12 10 0
08/08/1981

LOVE ACTION (I BELIEVE IN LOVE)

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 435)

 3 13 0
10/10/1981

OPEN YOUR HEART

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 453)

 6 9 0
05/12/1981

DON'T YOU WANT ME

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 466)

 1 13 5
09/01/1982

BEING BOILED

HUMAN LEAGUE (EMI FAST 4)

 6 9 0
06/02/1982

HOLIDAY 80 (DOUBLE SINGLE)

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin SV 105)

 46 5 0
20/11/1982

MIRROR MAN

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 522)

 2 10 0
23/04/1983

(KEEP FEELING) FASCINATION

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 569)

 2 9 0
05/05/1984

THE LEBANON

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 672)

 11 7 0
30/06/1984

LIFE ON YOUR OWN

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 688)

 16 6 0
17/11/1984

LOUISE

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 723)

 13 10 0
23/08/1986

HUMAN

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 880)

 8 8 0
22/11/1986

I NEED YOUR LOVING

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 900)

 72 1 0
15/10/1988

LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 1025)

 41 5 0
18/08/1990

HEART LIKE A WHEEL

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VS 1262)

 29 5 0
07/01/1995

TELL ME WHEN

HUMAN LEAGUE (East West YZ 882CD1)

 6 9 0
18/03/1995

ONE MAN IN MY HEART

HUMAN LEAGUE (East West YZ 904CD1)

 13 8 0
17/06/1995

FILLING UP WITH HEAVEN

HUMAN LEAGUE (East West YZ 944CD)

 36 2 0
28/10/1995

DON'T YOU WANT ME (REMIX)

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin VSCDT 1557)

 16 3 0
20/01/1996

STAY WITH ME TONIGHT

HUMAN LEAGUE (East West EW 020CD)

 40 2 0
11/08/2001

ALL I EVER WANTED

HUMAN LEAGUE (Papillon BTFLYS 0012)

 47 1 0
Date Title, Artist, (Label) Peak Position Weeks Weeks at No.1
31/05/1980

TRAVELOGUE

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin V 2160)

 16 42 0
22/08/1981

REPRODUCTION

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin V 2133)

 34 23 0
24/10/1981

DARE

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin V 2192)

 1 72 4
17/07/1982

LOVE AND DANCING

LEAGUE UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA (Virgin OVED 6)

 3 52 0
19/05/1984

HYSTERIA

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin V 2315)

 3 18 0
20/09/1986

CRASH

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin V 2391)

 7 6 0
12/11/1988

GREATEST HITS

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin HLTV 1)

 3 24 0
29/09/1990

ROMANTIC?

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin V 2624)

 24 2 0
04/02/1995

OCTOPUS

HUMAN LEAGUE (East West 4509987502)

 6 12 0
11/11/1995

GREATEST HITS

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin CDV 2792)

 28 8 0
18/08/2001

SECRETS

HUMAN LEAGUE (Papillon BTFLYCD 0019)

 44 1 0
27/09/2003

THE VERY BEST OF

HUMAN LEAGUE (Virgin HLCDX2)

 24 3 0
02/04/2011

CREDO

HUMAN LEAGUE (Wall Of Sound WoOS85CD)

 44 1 0
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