Heaven 17

Heaven 17 is a synthpop band from the English Sheffield . The trio consists of Martyn Ware (keyboards), Ian Craig Marsh (keyboards) and Glenn Gregory (vocals). The group had its heyday in the early 80s.

Ware and Marsh left in 1980. The Human League to begin as British Electric Foundation (BEF) for himself. After donning lead singer Glenn Gregory called the trio itself Heaven 17, based on the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, in which a rock band with this name. Ware and Marsh as producers continued to use the name BEF. Together with The Human League, who went on with another occupation, they were the pioneers of the use of the drum computer in pop and they developed the danceable synthpop which is one of the currents within the new wave would be.

The first album was Penthouse & Pavement (1981) (14 in the UK Album Chart) showing the hits (UK) We do not need this fascist groove thing and the club hit The height of the fighting (also known as He-La -Hu). The only single that reached the charts in the Netherlands, Temptation, was from the second album, The Luxury Gap (1983). In 1992, a remix version took the charts. Carol Kenyon's hear it as a guest singer. The third album, How Men Are (1984), produced three singles, the last ... (And That's No Lie), even in England the charts no longer fetched, but in the Netherlands early 1985 still three weeks in the Delectable 15 stood.

Although most of the music of the band was recorded in the 1980s, they have since been, since 1997, occasionally been reunited and were published in 2005 and 2008, new albums.

Many of the texts of Heaven 17 have a left oriented show commitment. The first group of single, we don't need this fascist groove thing, was by BBC Radio 1 boycotted because the text US President Ronald Reagan would slander.



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*1 Discography  ==[Discography  edit ] == ===[Albums  edit ] === ===[Single  Edit ] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Trivia  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware looked as producers for the comeback of Tina Turner on her album Private Dancer producing songs.
 * 1.1 Albums
 * 1.2 Singles
 * 1.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 1.4 Trivia