Heaven 17
| Heaven 17 | |
|---|---|
 Heaven 17 (2014) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Synth pop , new wave |
| founding | 1981, 1996 |
| resolution | 1988 |
| Website | www.heaven17.com |
| Founding members | |
| Glenn Gregory | |
Vocals, keyboard
|
Ian Craig Marsh (until 2008) |
Vocals, keyboard |
Martyn Ware |
| Current occupation | |
| Glenn Gregory | |
Vocals, keyboard
|
Martyn Ware |
| Live members | |
| Kelly Barnes | |
| Asa Bennett | |
| Julian Crampton | |
| Billie Godfrey | |
| Rachel Mosleh | |
| Berenice Scott | |
Heaven 17 is a British synth-pop - band .
history
Heaven 17 was created in Sheffield in the early 1980s from the British Electric Foundation (BEF) music production project that Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware founded after they split from The Human League . The singer Glenn Gregory , who had previously appeared at BEF, completed the formation.
Like The Human League , Heaven 17 mainly used synthesizers and drum computers as instruments . The band had their first success in 1981 with the debut single (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang . The piece attracted attention because it was quickly the anthem of leftist groups and boycotted by the BBC because of the very political lyrics in England . In the same year her first album Penthouse and Pavement was released , from which further singles were released with moderate success.
The band had their greatest successes 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 could post even more club successes. The later productions were characterized by a stronger orientation towards conventional instruments and leanings on the Philly sound . The critics were always positive about the trio, but the following album Pleasure One (1986) only sold slowly.
After the commercial failure of the 1988s album Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho , Heaven 17 officially split. The musicians turned to other projects. Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware have contributed to the successes of Tina Turner , Terence Trent D'Arby and Hot Gossip , among others , where they appeared as producers ( BEF ) and songwriters. Their vocals were also on the band-aid recording Do They Know It's Christmas? represented. Glenn Gregory produced and recorded his CD Skyscraping together with Martin Fry ( ABC ) . He also gave his voice to many other projects, such as B. the song Don't Stop the Music by Goldpeople or a duet with Claudia Brücken (ex- propaganda ).
In 1996 the three reunited as Heaven 17 and recorded their sixth studio album, Bigger Than America .
After the release of another remix album (1998) and two live albums (1999 and 2000) her next studio album was not released until 2005. For the tour in 2008 they released a CD with new recordings.
In 2007 Marsh left the band on the grounds that "I lost the fun".
In autumn 2009 Heaven 17 went on tour again as part of the Nokia Night of the Proms concerts. In March 2010, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the band gave special concerts in which the entire debut album Penthouse and Pavement is performed for the first time . The program was repeated in 2012 with the album The Luxury Gap .
In January 2017 Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory got together at Ware's studio "The House of Illustrious" to record a new album. Parts of it were published as "work in progress" under the title Not for Public Broadcast by Bowers & Wilkins ( Society of Sound 105).
Trivia
- The band name comes from Anthony Burgess ' book A Clockwork Orange or the film adaptation from 1972, in which a fictional pop group of the same name is mentioned. The Goggly Go-Gos and Johnny Zhivago are also mentioned in the same scene .
- The German band Deine Lakaien released their first and so far only cover with a version of (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang .
- The song Temptation was interpreted by the British 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 .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 UK
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 US
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Dance
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| 1981 | Penthouse and Pavement | - |
UK14th  (77 weeks)UK |
- | - |
Producer: British Electric Foundation , Peter Walsh
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| 1983 | The Luxury Gap |
DE7 (23 weeks) DE |
UK4th  (36 weeks)UK |
US72 (13 weeks) US |
- |
Producer: British Electric Foundation, Greg Walsh
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| 1984 | How Men Are |
DE31 (6 weeks) DE |
UK12  (11 weeks)UK |
- | - |
Producer: British Electric Foundation, Greg Walsh
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| 1986 | Pleasure One | - |
UK78 (1 week) UK |
US177 (3 weeks) US |
- |
Producer: Heaven 17
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| 1988 | Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho |
DE46 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - | - |
Producer: Heaven 17
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More studio albums
- 1996: Bigger Than America
- 2005: Before After
swell
- ↑ Live - Heaven 17. (No longer available online.) In: heaven17.com. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; Retrieved December 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound
- ↑ Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US
- ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
