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The Human League

As synthesizers started to become affordable in the late 1970s, computer programmers Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh's early avant-garde musical experiments with the technology were soon being given commercial pop melodies by the addition of Phil Oakey as front man under the name The Human League. But the new direction didn't suit the two founding members and they split to form Heaven 17. Meanwhile, Oakey found singers Joanne Catherall and Susan Sulley in a local nightclub and, with the permission of their parents, headed out on tour in 1980. Gaining popularity through their touring...