In November and December 2008, the Human League got together with Martin Fry's ABC and Heaven 17 for 'The Steel City Tour' of the UK. This was Philip Oakey's concept of a joint tour of all three bands celebrating the original electronic music of early 1980s Sheffield (the titular Steel City). Much had been made in the UK media [ citation needed] of the history between Heaven 17 and the Human League, the original events of 1980 and the fact they were now working together. Both Oakey and Martyn Ware said that any acrimony from that period had long since been forgotten. [36] At Falkirk festival in May 2007. From left: Sutton, Burke, Beevers, Catherall, Barton, Sulley, Oakey. The next day we got to the studio. Phil was seeing one of the girls in the group named Joanne. And she was the one raising a stink about the other girl being on the song. Phil walked in and told us, "I have to say. I don't like the idea of another girl being on our record." We said, "What?" He repeated, "I have to say. I don't like the idea of another girl being on our record." We said, "Oh. We get it. We got you. You just have to say it. We got it. Perfect." We called the record company and told them, "We either have your first single or a record that is off the album. And you guys can figure out how you want to handle it." I told Jordan Harris, who was the Virgin/A&M Records A&R at the time that, "We think the song is perfect the way it is. We don't want to change anything about it. And by the way, the songs we wrote, we're going to finish them the way we want to finish them. That's the way it should be. The songs they wrote they can finish them however they want to, but our songs we're going to finish them the way we want to finish them." And he said, "That sounds fair. It makes total sense." I said, "So we're not taking the girl off 'Human' because we think the song sounds perfect the way it is."

In 2016, the band performed their 'A Very British Synthesizer Group' European and UK tour to accompany the release of the multi-disc anthology of the same name. [43] In winter 2018, they undertook an extensive 'Red Tour' in Europe and the UK.I’ve wondered if Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis didn’t exactly give Human League their best work, or maybe they tried and it just didn’t work. According to the Wikipedia article on Crash, there were creative clashes and the other members of Human League were basically sidelined. Gloria Estefan - The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1998)". Archived from the original on 19 December 2021 . Retrieved 6 January 2012– via YouTube. Chartverfolgung / HUMAN LEAGUE / Longplay". www.musicline.de (in German) . Retrieved 16 April 2010.

Offiziellecharts.de – The Human League – Crash" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 16 April 2020. a b c d e f g h Williams, Chris. "Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have become synonymous with recording excellence". Wax Poetics Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015 . Retrieved 7 February 2015. Hot 100 Songs – Year-End 1986". Billboard. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020 . Retrieved 27 February 2020. At the end of 2012, the band undertook the 'XXXV Tour' across Europe and the UK to celebrate 35 years in existence. The shows were critically acclaimed. The UK's Daily Telegraph said "as good a night's entertainment as you are likely to find anywhere on the planet". [41] Since 1978, the Human League have released 9 studio albums, a remix album, a live album, 6 EPs, 29 singles and 13 compilation albums. They have had 6 top 20 albums and 13 top 20 singles in the UK and had sold more than 20 million records worldwide by 2010. [3] [4] As an early techno-pop [5] act that received extensive MTV airplay, they are regarded as one of the leading artists of the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US. [6] History [ edit ] 1970s: Early years [ edit ]In 1987, Ian Burden also left the band. In November 1988, a greatest hits compilation album was released that reached No.3 in UK. This was preceded by the release of the single " Love Is All That Matters" from Crash.

A change in management at EastWest in 1998 saw the cancellation of the band's contract once again. Afterward, the band co-headlined with Culture Club and Howard Jones on VH1's 1980s "Big Rewind" nostalgia tour [29] and made other concert and public appearances throughout 1997–2000. Love Is All That Matters" and "Tell Me When": "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-07-15". Imgur. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015 . Retrieved 1 February 2016. [ bettersourceneeded] On completion of the tour, Burden went on to his next commitment playing bass guitar in West Berlin. Because of the professionalism they had shown and because he planned to use them further vocally, Oakey and manager Bob Last made Sulley and Catherall full members of the band, to be paid on a salary basis. Susan Sulley said that the rejection of Secrets was "the lowest the band had been since 1992 and, after putting in so much time and effort in to an album that then failed, nearly causing them to call it a day." [31]Their renewed success prompted the band to tour again for the first time since 1987, and they conducted a tour of the US and UK in 1995. Subsequent singles " Filling Up with Heaven" and the non-album single " Stay with Me Tonight" also reached the UK Top 40, and a new remix of "Don't You Want Me" was released to capitalise on the band's revitalised profile. This was in the run up to a new "greatest hits" compilation in 1996, but which proved less successful than their first "Greatest Hits" album from 1988. a b c d e f g h i j k l Turner, Sean. "Complete guide to The Human League 1977–1980". Blindyouth.co.uk . Retrieved 30 January 2014. The Human League: The Very Best of the Human League". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 June 2020. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.143. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Philip Oakey recorded vocals for the B-side "Introducing", only for them to be left off the final release, rendering the song an instrumental.