Electric Dreams: The Human League, Heaven 17 and the Sound of the Steel City

Electric Dreams: The Human League, Heaven 17 and the Sound of the Steel City
David Buckley
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Hardback
h235 x 159mm - 400pg
24 Feb 2022 UK
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9781913172367
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The untold story of how a band, a city and a lot of synthesisers provided the soundtrack to the Eighties. October 2011 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Dare, the Human League's seminal third album. With its Vogue-inspired artwork and infectious mix of nightclub pop and post-punk experimentation, it set a completely new agenda: totally modern, cerebral yet danceable, uniquely stylish and wryly post-modern. It went on to became one of the biggest-selling records of the decade, spawning four major hit singles - including No.1s both sides of the Atlantic - and made an instant celebrity of the band's colourful frontman, Phil Oakey. In Electric Dreams David Buckley, the acclaimed author of Strange Fascination: David Bowie - The Definitive Story, charts the Human League's unlikely rise from avant-garde veterans of the punk wars to international pop sensations and reveals how a small number of bands in Sheffield created the music that came to define an era: electro-pop.
DAVID BUCKLEY is a regular contributor to Mojo magazine and the author of six books, including his as yet unrivalled biography of David Bowie, Strange Fascination, which the Guardian described as 'definitive'.
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ISBN-13: 9781913172367
Published: 24 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Omnibus Press
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 159mm
Pages: 400

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