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Philip Oakey
Philip Oakey
English pop singer
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Heaven 17
Heaven 17
New wave synthpop band from the United Kingdom
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Ian Craig Marsh
Ian Craig Marsh
British musician
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Philip Adrian Wright
Philip Adrian Wright
English musician
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Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware
English musician
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Altered Images
early 1980s Scottish new wave/post-punk band
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B.E.F.
B.E.F.
British band and music production company
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ABC
ABC
English musical group; New Romantic pop band
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Alexander O'Neal
Alexander O'Neal
American musical artist
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Theatre of Hate
Theatre of Hate
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
British new wave group
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Glenn Gregory
Glenn Gregory
English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
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M People
M People
English house music band
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Eurythmics
Eurythmics
British music duo
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Hue and Cry
Hue and Cry
Scottish pop sibling duo formed in 1983
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Paul Heaton
Paul Heaton
English singer-songwriter
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The Lightning Seeds
The Lightning Seeds
English rock band
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Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins
British band
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Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker
English recording artist; rock and blues singer (1944-2014)
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Take That
Take That
British five-piece vocal pop group
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Def Leppard
Def Leppard
British rock band
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The Tourists
The Tourists
British band that played new wave music
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Tony Christie
Tony Christie
English musician, singer and actor
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Simply Red
Simply Red
English soul band
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China Crisis
China Crisis
English pop and rock band
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Westlife
Westlife
Irish boy band
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Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde
English pop singer
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OneRepublic
OneRepublic
American pop rock band
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Terrorvision
Terrorvision
British rock band
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Sister Sledge
Sister Sledge
American vocal group
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Bananarama
Bananarama
English pop group
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Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive
British band
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Pulp
Pulp
UK band
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That Petrol Emotion
That Petrol Emotion
Northern Irish, London-based band
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10cc
10cc
English art rock band
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Shriekback
Shriekback
English rock band
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The Tremeloes
The Tremeloes
rock band
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The Folk Implosion
The Folk Implosion
American band
Members, past and present

The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit "Don't You Want Me". The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including "Mirror Man", "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", "The Lebanon", "Human" (a US No. 1) and "Tell Me When".

The only constant band member since 1977 has been lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey. Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17. Under Oakey's leadership, the Human League then evolved into a commercially successful New Pop band with a new line-up including female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Since the mid-1990s, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey, Catherall and Sulley with various sidemen including notable kazoo player Dan Styring.

Since 1978, the Human League have released nine studio albums, two remix albums, one live album, six EPs, 30 singles and several compilation albums. They have had five albums and eight singles in the UK Top 10 and had sold more than 20 million records worldwide by 2010. As an early techno-pop act who received extensive MTV airplay they are regarded as one of the leading artists of the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US.