Human League, The

The League Unlimited Orchestra: Love And Dance (Virgin)

Review by Paul Morley, NME, July 1982

LOVE'S THEME, YOUR MAGIC SPELL IS EVERYWHERE ...

The Human League/Vice Versa: The Now Society, Sheffield University, Sheffield

Live Review by Andy Gill, NME, July 1978

THE NOW Society, a university-based organisation, has been putting on gigs featuring local, predominantly experimental bands (such are the local mores) for some time now; ...

The Human League: The Cyclic And Random Lyric Organisation System

Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, February 1979

CARLOS for short. IAN BIRCH talks to the Human League, Sheffield Novorockers with a weakness for torch ballads. ...

The Mekons/The Fall/Human League/Gang Of Four/Stiff Little Fingers: The Lyceum, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, March 1979

AND THE STARS look very different today... For all practical rock purposes, we may as well own up that we are now living in the ...

The Human League: Reproduction (Virgin)

Review by Andy Gill, NME, October 1979

EVERY TV appearance Gary Numan makes must be like a dagger to the heart of The Human League, every radio-play a bit more salt in ...

Human League: Half A League Onward

Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, March 1981

NEVER BEFORE in the annals of male/female relations, in the ongoing man/woman battleground, has there been such a spicy love/hate scenario as in the new ...

The Human League: Beautiful Dreamers

Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, August 1981

Start with pop with a capital P, add a touch of glamour, stir with a generous helping of amateur enthusiasm and you've got the new ...

The Human League: The Big League

Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, October 1981

1977 ― progressive, poverty-stricken, "hip". 1981 ― accepted, bankable... (and still "hip"!). Ian Birch charts the past and plots the present with The Human League. ...

The Human League: A Soap Opera

Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, October 1981

An everyday story of human life starring the HUMAN LEAGUE. Script MARK COOPER ...

The Human League: Dare (Virgin)

Review by Paul Morley, NME, October 1981

SURPRISE! ...the love of human MOR-als ...

The Human League: Human Nature

Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, December 1981

"YOU'D BETTER watch out," Philip Oakey warns in a voice to make even the hardiest soul tremble at the knees. "We've decided we like that ...

In League With The Human League: Dare

Essay by Van Gosse, Village Voice, April 1982

By the charts, the Human League are the most popular band in the U.K., as well as the most successful of the electropoppers: Depeche Mode, ...

The Human League: Dare

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, June 1982

IF THE GUY who built a pinochle-playing computer for his Science Techniques Lab in high school married the gal who wrote poems called "alien/nation" for ...

A Life In The Day Of Martin Rushent

Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, June 1982

MARTIN RUSHENT, producer of the Human League and Altered Images, talks to MARK COOPER. ...

The Human League: Phil Oakey's Five Minute Plan

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, January 1983

WHEN PHIL Oakey was a hospital porter, people used to be dying all around him, and he somehow became immune. It didn't upset him more ...

The Human League: Hysteria (Virgin)

Review by Biba Kopf, NME, May 1984

THIS IS what you've got when you haven't got style: no more masks to hide behind. ...

The Human League: Flesh And Blood

Interview by John McCready, NME, September 1986

Born to make mistakes? THE HUMAN LEAGUE, CLASS of '81 veterans, saved Phil Oakey from a life on the bins. Jon McCready talks to the ...

The Human League: Crash

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1986

THE CAREER OF The Human League – from Sheffield art-school beginnings to their current miraculous return from the dumper – has been a comedy of ...

Human League: Crash

Review by Ira Robbins, Creem, January 1987

I HAVE GRAVE trouble imagining what sort of people would describe themselves as real fans of certain swill that's on the market today. Casual or ...

Human League: Dynasty!

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, February 1987

They bickered their way through six different line-ups. They were consumed by power and ego. They made a fortune and lost it. Tom Hibbert charts ...

Give Human League A Chance

Interview by 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 ...

The Human League: Leisure Centre, Crawley

Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, December 1987

A VAGUELY remembered pop song once listed the things that dreams are made of: "London, New York, Paris, Munich, good times." ...

The Human League: Romantic Antics

Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, September 1990

THE HUMAN LEAGUE are back among us, more serious than ever, not for a last gasp, but completely reinvigorated and rewired – after what ...

Top Of The Pops and The '80s Brit Pop Boom

Overview by Stuart Maconie, Q, November 1994

YOU CAN tell if they're boys or girls these days, that's the trouble. Just look at them, these so-called modern pop phenomena. ...

The Human League: Didn't We Used To Be The Human League?

Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, February 1995

WITH SOME groups, it is records on the Stax and Okeh record labels; with others it is fine wines or the tailoring of Messrs Miyake ...

Human Remains: The Human League

Retrospective and Interview by Paul Lester, Guardian, The, July 2001

Two decades after their synthpop assault on the charts, the Human League are back. ...

The Human League: Are Friends Electro?

Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001

JOANNE CATHERALL (the brunette one) has been relatively quiet throughout the interview, content to pick through her lunch while Susanne Sulley (the blonde one) and ...

The Here And Now Tour: Many Happy Returns

Report and Interview by Pete Paphides, Guardian, The, March 2003

To some, the Here And Now Tour is a has-beens cabaret, to others it's a harmless trip down memory lane. Peter Paphides reports from the ...

Phil Oakey

Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, November 2003

IT IS 22 YEARS since the number one single 'Don't You Want Me' turned The Human League from underground Sheffield electro boffins into champions of ...

ABC/Human League/Heaven 17: Hammersmith Apollo, London

Live Review by Paul Lester, Guardian, The, December 2008

THERE ARE QUEUES around the building for the Sheffield groups who brought electro-funk (Heaven 17), orchestral disco (ABC) and synth pop (the Human League) to ...

The Steel City Tour: Human League, ABC and Heaven 17 at the Hammersmith Apollo

Live Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, February 2009

THE STEEL CITY TOUR is a thrilling glimpse of the once- future through the lens of the past. What these groups attempted in Sheffield at ...