The story of Don’t You Want Me is an extraordinary tale of how The Human League’s stubbornness was rightly ignored, became a worldwide chart-topper selling millions, and managed to save their record label as a bonus.
At the start of 1981, if you’d suggested that The Human League would end that year with a Christmas Number 1 and start the next with the double of a chart-topping album, they would have probably said ‘Yes dear’ and backed away slowly, as the group themselves were in something of a pickle.
Having ‘enjoyed’ something of a hit-free existence since 1978’s Being Boiled and a pair of critically acclaimed if nailed-to-the-shelves albums (Reproduction and Travelogue) The Human League effectively split in half, with two original
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