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The Human League

November 2022

  • Lauren O'Neill

    Favourite lyrics reveal your attachment style – psychologists would have a field day with mine

    Lauren O'Neill
    Are you secure, anxious, or avoidant: songs we play repeatedly can be revealing. So what is it with me and Pulp’s Babies, asks Lauren O’Neill, a culture writer for Vice UK

December 2021

  • The Human League with Philip Oakey and Susan Ann Sulley (right).

    How we made
    ‘I never worked in a cocktail bar’: How the Human League made Don’t You Want Me

    ‘Philip turned up to meet my parents fully made up, with red lipstick and high heels. My dad locked himself in the bedroom and refused to come out’

May 2020

  • ‘Arguably the first synth-pop smash hit’ ... the Human League.

    The 100 greatest UK No 1 singles
    The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 7, The Human League – Don't You Want Me

    Phil Oakey might have hated it, but his hook-laden hit about sexual power politics brought synth-pop in from the cold

December 2019

  • Phil Oakey of the Human League performing in Sheffield in 1980

    Sheffield's post-punk explosion: synths, steel and skinheads

    In the late 70s, the city’s bands set out to create the sound of the future – while trying to avoid getting beaten up. Jarvis Cocker and other leading lights recall a revolutionary scene

December 2017

  • Edinburgh is expected to celebrate the new year with fireworks launched in the countdown to midnight.

    New Year's Eve celebrations to go ahead despite Storm Dylan

    Tens of thousands expected to join Edinburgh Hogmanay street party despite forecasts of high winds

August 2016

  • Black hits of space … the Human League.

    10 of the best
    The Human League – 10 of the best

    From a DIY debut that cost £3 to make, to the sleek pop perfection of Open Your Heart, here are 10 standout tracks from the Sheffield synth maestros

June 2016

  • Artist Bedwyr Williams shows off his copy of Indiscreet by Sparks at his studio in Rhostryfan, North Wales.

    The art on your sleeve: visual artists on album covers

    The best record covers are often as much a part of the whole work as the songs themselves. We asked six artists to choose the designs that inspire them

March 2016

  • Martyn Ware on Brighton beach

    Martyn Ware's seaside soundscape: a feeling of calm in a manic world

    The Human League co-founder releases his Sea Inside Us All project, an 82-minute recording of familiar sounds of the seaside

December 2015

  • The Human League in 1981

    Music blog
    Forget 1966, because 1981 was pop's year of revolution

    While Jon Savage has been hailing the mid-60s, there’s a case to be made that we’re about to mark the 35th anniversary of pop’s greatest year

June 2015

  • Martyn Ware

    Shoot-'em-ups and crashing waves: Martyn Ware seeks that seaside sound

    Former Human League star tells of his love for the sea as he takes his recorder around Brighton, part of project to capture the sounds of Britain’s coastline

March 2014

  • Synth-pop band the Human League

    The Human League may jump back into the top 10 … thanks to Aberdeen FC

    Facebook campaign by football fans could give the synth-pop band its first top-10 appearance since 1995

February 2014

  • Various personalities

    Martyn Ware of the Human League on the mindbending power of 3D sound

    The Human League's Martyn Ware has used 3D sound to calm Brighton drunks. Now he's using it to explore Alzheimer's. Ben Beaumont-Thomas reports

August 2013

  • Kate Bush

    Alan Partridge picks his pop playlist

    The star of Alpha Papa talks us through some of his favourite pop hits – from wuthering women and songs about horses to the 'decent beat' of the Human League

June 2012

  • jessie ware debut album

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly podcast: Tom Bromley is Wired for Sound; and Jessie Ware

    Tom Bromley on the rise and fall of 80s music; Jessie Ware on her chameleon voice; and some fine vocoding in Singles Club

February 2012

  • Old music
    Old music: The Human League – Empire State Human

    George Chesterton: Preposterous and brilliant, the Human League's vision of the future sounds oddly charming now

August 2011

  • Magic Loungeabout festival (day 3) – review

    Ed Sheeran proved the day's big draw in an expensive, posh pop-festival experience, writes Dave Simpson

June 2011

  • Martin Rushent

    Martin Rushent obituary

  • Martin Rushent at his home in Reading, Berkshire

    Prominent producer Martin Rushent dies aged 63

March 2011

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