Oakey told Rushent: “We reckon we're writing hit songs and have been for some time, but we just can't seem to make it work on plastic.” That was all that the producer needed to hear. Desk jockey ...

EXCLUSIVE: Eighties chart topper Phil Oakey had an awkward moment on stage last Thursday night as he slipped on a wet stage, having previously told the crowd that he was worried about falling off ...

In the early 1980s the city of Sheffield shaped the music scene. The recently-announced Steel City tour aims to show modern audiences why. We spoke… ...

These days, Oakey has lost the distinctive lopsided fringe and now shaves his head. He admits the original look was contrived to help him stand out from the crowd of pop wannabes in the late 1970s ...

Phil will be joined by the girls from the band – Susan Ann Sulley, the blonde one, and the dark one, Joanne Catherall. But, it seems, there was no Don't You Want Me story about how they met.

A FORMER porter who swapped delivering patients to their wards for delivering some of the 1980s most innovative and striking music, Phil Oakey's transition to pop star wasn't a pre-meditated one.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1980, in a recording studio near Reading in Berkshire, a 25-year-old Philip Oakey, lead singer of synth-pop band The Human League ...

Phil Oakey of The Human League has said that Glee executive producer Ryan Murphy was "out of order" for criticising groups who ban their music from his show.. The singer-songwriter explained that ...

This is Phil talking. Phil Oakey. Former fringe-wearer. Science-fiction fan. Frontman of arty 1970s Sheffield electronic outfit The Human League, alongside Martyn Ware and Ian Craig-Marsh, ...

L-R: Susan Ann Sulley, Phil Oakey and Joanne Catherall, aka The Human League Aberdeen fans have celebrated the end of the club's 19-year trophy drought by scoring a hit for their adopted terrace ...

Speaking to WA Today, Phil Oakey, the band’s lead singer, says that the location was chosen because it had the best acoustics of any area of the Sheffield studio they were recording in.

For Phil Oakey, frontman of the Human League, it’s a prospect he’s relishing. “It’s certainly a tour which interests me,” he said. “I think if I wasn’t actually involved it’s a ...