Give Human League A Chance
Sylvie Simmons, Creem, March 1987
THEY LIVE IN Sheffield. Because they like it there. Because it's ordinary but sort of esoteric at the same time, straightforward but not stupid, arty without being, you know, arty. A lot like their music.
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