Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 106. Chapters: Derek Bailey, Joe Cocker, The Human League, Pulp, Heaven 17, Warp, Def Leppard, The Long Blondes, Arctic Monkeys, Jarvis Cocker, Thompson Twins, 65daysofstatic, Reverend and The Makers, The Comsat Angels, Moloko, Harrisons, ABC, Paul Carrack, Gatecrasher, Cabaret Voltaire, Little Man Tate, Richard Hawley, Bassline, Mark Gasser, Letters and Colours, Dave Berry, Bring Me the Horizon, Stoney, Sheffield Bach Choir, Artery, Longpigs, Truelove's Gutter, Babybird, Clock DVA, Milburn, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, The Lovers, Acrobats of Desire, Street piano, B.E.F., National Centre for Popular Music, Living in a Box, Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation, Neveroddoreven, Tramlines Festival, I Monster, Richard H. Kirk, Monkey Swallows the Universe, In the Nursery, World of Twist, Kings Have Long Arms, Kate Jackson, Bromheads Jacket, James Poyser, One Thousand Violins, Slow Club, Fauxstar, Coles Corner, Platnum, We Were Exploding Anyway, The Destruction of Small Ideas, Honeyroot, BabyPinkStar, A.C. Temple, Existend, The Dylans, Wavestar, Lady's Bridge, Gas Club, Portland Works, All Seeing I, Pink Grease, Red Mecca, Venini, Hiem, Ensemble 360, Smokers Die Younger, Elephant Keys, Tiny Dancers, The Anti-Group Company, Intro, List of musicians from Sheffield, Spoonfed Hybrid, Fat Truckers, New Yorkshire, Haze, One Time for All Time, Ross Orton, Late Night Final, Alan Smyth, About What You Know, City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra, Zenolyth, Blameless, Superfox, Hoggboy, Fuzz Club, Libitina, Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy, Stephen Fellows, Little Glitches, Nick Banks, Lowedges, Truth Decay, Rumpus, Music in the Round, Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra, Made in Sheffield, Step Out the Man, Media Lounge, Yellow Van Records, Tapton Youth Brass Band, Sheffield Chamber Orchestra, Sheffield Symphony Orchestra, Hallam Sinfonia. Excerpt: The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield, England in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day. The only constant band member since 1977 is vocalist and songwriter Philip Oakey. Originally an avant-garde all-male synthesizer-based group, The Human League evolved into a commercially successful synthpop band under Oakey's leadership, yielding the group's biggest-selling album, Dare (1981). Since 1987, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey and long-serving female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley (who joined the ensemble in 1980), with various sidemen. The Human League has influenced many electro-pop, other synthpop, and mainstream performers including Madonna, La Roux, Moby, Pet Shop Boys and Little Boots. They have been sampled and covered by various artists including Tony Christie, Utah Saints, Ministry of Sound, Craig David, George Michael, KMFDM, and Robbie Williams. Since 1978, The Human League have released nine studio albums, four EPs and twenty-nine singles. They have had four albums and eight singles in the UK Top Ten, one of which was #1 (two in the US) and they have played over 350 live concerts. The band has sold more than 20 million records worldwide. Before adopting the name The Human League, the band briefly had two previous incarnations. In early 1977, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, who had met at youth arts project Meatwhistle, were both working as comput.