The human league

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• Human League signed to Virgin records in 1979 as an experimental electronic outfit. Later in 1981, with their third album "Dare," the band gained a lot of success and acknowledgment worldwide.

• Their song "Don't you want me" on the album "Dare" was a number one hit in both US and UK.

• They got an ASCAP award for 20 million US Radio Plays of "Don't you want me."

• Formerly known as "The Future," the name "Human League" was picked from one of the empire's name in the sci-fi board game Star Force.

• Since 1977, lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey has been the only permanent member of the band.

• In 1980, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left the band to form a new band "Heaven 17".

• With the addition of two female singers Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley, the band gained substantial commercial success as a new pop band under the leadership of Philip Oakey.

• Oakey saw both Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann on the dance floor dancing together. He then approached them and asked them to audition, knowing both had never sung or danced professionally. He told them that the band had a European tour in few weeks and that the band split up.

• Early on, they were nervous on the stage because they didn't know much about the technology at the time. Their friend Philip Wright used art and visuals to enhance their live performances. In 1978, during a live performance, David Bowie declared he'd seen "the future of pop music," to New Musical Express.

• Human League has released nine studio albums, two remix albums, one live album, six episodes, 30 singles, and many compilation albums since 1978.

• In the UK Top 10 charts, they have had five albums and eight singles.

• By 2010, more than 20 million records have been sold by the band.