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The Human League are a British Synthpop / New Wave Band . They first formed in 1977 and, after a change in line up, achieved huge popularity in the 1980s. They have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success in the 1990s and 2000s. Originally a , Moby , and other bands. ORIGINAL LINE-UP Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh were both working as computer operators in 1977, and combined a love of pop music (such as Glam Rock and Tamla Motown ) with Avant Garde Electronic Music . They acquired a Roland System 100 Synthesizer and began to create music in their own rehearsal facility. Initially they formed a group called The Future with Adi Newton. Newton left to form the outfit Clock DVA . Ware and Marsh searched for a vocalist, but their first choice, Glenn Gregory (who would be the lead singer of their later band Heaven 17 ), was unavailable. Ware instead decided to invite Philip Oakey, an old school friend, and a hospital porter at the time to join the band, "apparently by leaving a note stuck to his door". Oakey accepted the invitation, despite never having been in a band before. Shortly after, they decided to call themselves "The Human League." A collection of demos from this period was released on CD in 2002, titled ''The Golden Hour of The Future'', compiled by Richard X . The name "Human League" derived from the Wargame , by SPI . In the game, the Human League arose in 2415 A.D., and were a frontier-oriented society that desired more independence from Earth and the terraforming of systems not naturally habitable. In addition to Ware, Marsh and Oakey, the band recruited photographer Philip Adrian Wright to run slide shows and films onstage, and was credited as a full band member on record sleeves despite his contributions being nonmusical. The band released their debut single " Being Boiled " in 1978 on Edinburgh 's Fast Product label. The original line-up released two '' in 1979 and '' Travelogue '' in 1980. Both reached the Top 40 of the UK Album Charts (though '' Reproduction '' did not achieve this until two years after its release). |
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