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Product Information

The Human League: Love Action (I Believe in Love)". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 June 2020.

Gloria Estefan - The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1998)". Archived from the original on 19 December 2021 . Retrieved 6 January 2012– via YouTube. The Human League's 'The Virgin Years' Celebrated With New Colored Vinyl Boxset". U Discover Music. September 2022 . Retrieved 11 November 2022.

Contributors

Goud/Platina – NVPI Audio" (To access, enter the search parameter "The Human League" and select "Search") (in Dutch). NVPI . Retrieved 12 June 2020. After four months in Minneapolis, a sidelined Philip Oakey pulled the band out of further recording and they returned to Sheffield leaving Jam and Lewis to complete the album using session musicians. Oakey said later:

Shaw, Ted (27 September 1986). "Pop spins towards Christmas". Windsor Star. p.24 . Retrieved 1 June 2022. The band's first single under Virgin Records was the disco influenced " I Don't Depend on You", released in July 1979 under the pseudonym " The Men". The single did not chart and had very little in common with the previous work of the Human League. It did, however, feature female vocals by guests Lisa (Liza) Strike and Katie Kissoon, sounding like the yet-to-be-formed future Human League of 1981. [12] a b c "swedishcharts.com - Discography The Human League". swedishcharts.com . Retrieved 19 August 2009. a b "American certifications – Human League". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 21 August 2021. Hysteria has three songs that are this to previous hit "Don't You Want Me"— these being "Louise" (in which the ex-lovers meet again several years later), "Life On Your Own" (which derives its theme from Don't You Want Me's line "Now I think it's time I lived my life on my own") and "Don't You Know I Want You" which is obviously a tongue-in-cheek rewrite.

Release

After Hysteria, the group found themselves in creative stagnation, struggling to record material to follow up on their previous successes. Key songwriter Jo Callis departed, replaced by drummer Jim Russell. Bob Last quit as manager and was not replaced. In 1985, the band spent several months working on a new album with producer Colin Thurston (who had produced "I Don't Depend on You", Reproduction, and the first two Duran Duran albums), but yet more clashes in the recording studio ensued and the project was shelved in September 1985. [27] In August 1978 the band recorded a session for John Peel, including a re-worked version of "Being Boiled." [10] British certifications – Human League – Don't You Want Me". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 13 April 2023.