Heaven 17
Heaven 17 is a British synthpop band.
History
Heaven 17 emerged in the early 1980s in Sheffield ( UK ) from the British Electric Foundation Music Production Project (BEF ), which Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware had founded after her split from The Human League. Singer Glenn Gregory, who previously already at BEF made its appearance, completed the lineup.
Like The Human League Heaven 17 sat as instruments primarily synthesizer and drum computer. The band had their first success in 1981 with the debut single ( We Do not Need This ) Fascist Groove Thang. The piece attracted attention because it quickly became an anthem boycotted left groups and because of the very political text in England by the BBC. In the same year she released her first album Penthouse and Pavement, were extracted from the more singles with moderate success.
Their greatest success the band had in 1983 with the song Temptation and the ballad Come Live With Me from the LP The Luxury Gap. With the songs Let Me Go, This is mine and Sunset Now, the latter two from the album How Men Are (1984 ), they were able to record another club successes. The later productions were characterized by a stronger orientation to traditional instruments and allusions to the Phillysound. The critics were the trio always positive minded, but already the next album Pleasure One ( 1986) sold only sluggishly.
After the commercial failure of the 1988 album Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho to Heaven 17 have officially separated. The musicians turned to other projects. Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware were involved, among others, the success of Tina Turner, Terence Trent D' Arby and The Hot Gossip, where they performed as producers ( BEF) and songwriter. Vocally they were also in the Band-Aid - Do They Know It 's recording Christmas? represented. Glenn Gregory, together with Martin Fry ( ABC) produced and recorded the CD Skyscraping. He also lent his voice, like many other projects the song Do not Stop the Music of Goldpeople or a duet with Claudia Bridges ( ex- Propaganda ).
1996 found the three again as Heaven 17 together and recorded their sixth studio album Bigger Than America on.
After the release of another remix album (1998 ) and two live albums (1999 and 2000) only appeared again in 2005, her next studio album. For the 2008 tour, they released another CD with new recordings.
" To have the fun of the thing lost " in 2007 left Marsh on the grounds that band.
In autumn 2009, Heaven 17 were received through the Nokia Night of the Proms concerts on tour again. In March 2010 they gave on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, special concerts in which the entire debut album Penthouse and Pavement is listed first. The program was repeated in 2012 with the album The Luxury Gap.
Trivia
- The band's name comes from Anthony Burgess ' book A Clockwork Orange, in which a fictional pop group of the same name exists.
- The German band Deine Lakaien published with a version of ( We Do not Need This ) Fascist Groove Thang their first and so far only cover.
- The song Temptation was interpreted by the UK Dark metal band Cradle of Filth and released on the album Thornography and as a single.
- The female voice in the song Temptation was sung by the British singer Carol Kenyon.