Human League

Unofficial releases. [3] (http://www.tomjones.com/site/about/). Recently, the band have joined of a number of 80s revival tours, Oakey now describing this as being in a Human League tribute band.
. Four CDs attribute songs by The Human League under different names: on The Golden Hour Of The Future there are songs credited to The Human League when they were still The Future, on the single "I Don't Depend On You" where they call themselves The Men, on the "Dance Like A Star" Ep, there are also songs attributed to The Future and on "Love And Dancing", they pay homage to Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra by calling themselves League Unlimited Orchestra. Jones's most recent album is tited "Tom Jones and Jools Holland," and was released in 2004. The album Octopus went silver, and the lead-off single "Tell Me When" was the group's first major hit since "Human". Jones can be heard singing the theme song to the cartoon show "Duck Dodgers of the 24-1/2 Century" with the Flaming Lips.

Dropped by Virgin Records after the failure of their album Romantic? (1989), the group were now signed to EastWest and their line-up included producer Ian Stanley, who helped them to achieve a more modern sound. Mr. The group made a surprise comeback in 1994. He continues to tour and record. number one, "Human", but other singles made little impact. In 2004 his Sex Bomb single became a major US club hit. The Jam & Lewis-produced Crash LP (1985) did provide a U.S. In 2003, he was honoured with a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

The band also had a number of other hits but their success faded towards the mid-1980s. An album of cover versions recorded as duets with contemporary artists, using their record producers, and utilising their recording methods, it reached number one in the United Kingdom, and sold over 5 million copies worldwide.[2] (http://www.tomjones.com/site/about/biog.php) In 2002, he released his latest album, Mr. Jones, which was produced by Wyclef Jean and included the singles Tom Jones International and Black Betty. Their most famous single "Don't You Want Me" reached number one in the UK charts during the Christmas of 1981 and was one of the biggest selling singles of that year. His Reload album, released in 2000 became the biggest hit of his career. The band achieved a brief spell of success in the early 1980s with their style of Synthpop music. These recordings included:. Re-energized by the addition of new members, the band went on to record their breakthrough album Dare, and have many chart successes. Following this, he started to record with a younger generation of musicians.

At the time, synthpop was starting to become fashionable due to the success of groups like OMD and Ultravox, but female vocals were rarely heard on synth records, so the addition of Sulley and Catherall gave the group a distinctive sound. His recording career was revived in 1987 with his first major hit single in over a decade, A Boy From Nowhere, taken from the musical Matador. However, they recruited bass player Ian Burden, guitarist Jo Callis (formerly of The Rezillos) and, famously, fronted the band with two singers, Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall, whom they had met in a Sheffield nightclub. When he appointed his grown-up son as his manager, another change of image followed, and he is now highly respected by other singers. When Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware left to form Heaven 17 it seemed that Phil Oakey and Adrian Wright, the sole remaining group members, would be unable to sustain the band, which, just before the split, was beginning to achieve wider popularity. Jones's recording career slumped during the seventies and eighties, though his touring continued successfully. Their first single to chart was 'Empire State Human', which peaked at number 62 in the charts. His early hits include:.

Shortly afterwards, they signed up with Virgin Records, and by the early 1980s had become a successful British electropop band. Jones had an internationally successful television variety show from 1969-1971 titled "This Is Tom Jones.". Originally a post punk synthesiser based group from Sheffield, the Human League (previously known as the Future) released their first single, "Being Boiled" c/w "Circus Of Death" on Bob Last's Fast Product record label in 1978. Soon after, in Las Vegas, they started throwing hotel room keys. A fan site devoted to pictures of the Human League in concert during 2004. (http://www.redpenguin.net/bandphotos/human-league.php). Ladies would swoon and scream, and in 1968, starting at New York's Copacabana night club, some would throw their panties on stage. Secrets Online, excellent fan site with indepth Human League coverage both past and present. (http://www.league-online.com/). He was known for his overt sexuality in the 1960s, before this was as common as it became in subsequent years.

Blind Youth, a site dedicated to the early post-punk works of Human League. (http://www.blindyouth.co.uk/). Following several hits in the UK, he became a Las Vegas lounge singer and his image quickly changed. A Human League fan site (http://users.bigpond.net.au/human-league/home.htm). Jones was awarded the Best New Artist Grammy in 1965.[1] (http://www.grammy.com/awards/search/index.aspx). "Rock And Roll Is Dead" (2003) was a single from fellow Sheffield band, Kings Have Long Arms, that paid tribute to Oakey and eventually was re-released with Oakey doing some guest vocals. He rose to fame in the mid-1960s, with an exuberant live act which included wearing tight breeches and billowing shirts, in an Edwardian style popular amongst his peers at the time. Today" (2003) was a single from Alex Gold featuring Oakey on vocals. He lives in the USA, but makes regular visits to his native land of Wales.

"L.A. He married and had a child at the age of sixteen, long before becoming a pop idol. Despite frequent and much publicized infidelities, including an affair with the dethroned Miss World of 1973, USA's Marjorie Wallace, he has remained married and a family man. "Together In Electric Dreams" was a solo single for Oakey rather than the whole League, but has been included on Human League albums as if it were by the whole band. He was born Thomas Jones Woodward in Pontypridd, Wales. 'The Human League Interview'. Tom Jones (born June 7, 1940) is a Welsh pop singer with a large and powerful voice. 'The Human League Promo Mix CD' (not available). Tom Jones and Jools Holland (2004).

'The Golden Hour Of The Future'. The Definitive Tom Jones 1964-2002 (2003). 'Dance Like A Star' (EP). Greatest Hits (2003). 'The Future Tapes' (unreleased). Jones (2002). 'In Darkness' (a bootleg demo album). Mr.