![]() Obviously, faced with financial ruin if they cancelled the tour, Philip decided to go to the local disco with the semi-harebrained idea of finding a female vocalist. Having ‘enjoyed’ something of a hit-free existence since 1978’s Being Boiled and a pair of critically acclaimed if nailed-to-the-shelves albums (Reproduction and Travelogue) The Human League effectively split in half, with two original members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh (basically the musicians) frustrated and clearing off to invent Heaven 17, that left the group – on the verge of a tour, no less – as wonky-haired vocalist Philip Oakey and slide operator Adrian Wright. MORE: The Official 2021 Christmas Number 1 contenders ![]() The story of Don’t You Want Me is an extraordinary tale of how The Human League’s stubbornness was rightly ignored, became a worldwide chart-topper selling millions, and managed to save their record label as a bonus.Īt the start of 1981, if you’d suggested that The Human League would end that year with a Christmas Number 1 and start the next with the double of a chart-topping album, they would have probably said ‘Yes dear’ and backed away slowly, as the group themselves were in something of a pickle.
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