THE HUMAN LEAGUE - FASCINATION(KEEP FEELING)

 FASCINATION(KEEP FEELING)

THE HUMAN LEAGUE

SONGWRITERS: JOHN WILLIAM CALLIS CALLIS & PHILIP OAKEY

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: DARE/FASCINATION

LABEL: VIRGIN RECORDS

GENRE: SYNTH-POP

YEAR: 1981

 

         The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit "Don't You Want Me". The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including "Mirror Man", "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", "The Lebanon", "Human" (a US Nº 1) and "Tell Me When".

       The only constant band member since 1977 has been lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey. Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17. Under Oakey's leadership, the Human League then evolved into a commercially successful New Pop band, with a new line-up including female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Since the mid-1990s, the band have essentially been a trio of Oakey, Catherall and Sulley with various sidemen.

        Since 1978, the Human League have released 9 studio albums, a remix album, a live album, 6 EPs, 29 singles and 13 compilation albums. They have had 6 Top 20 albums and 13 Top 20 singles in the UK and had sold more than 20 million records worldwide by 2010. As an early techno-pop act that received extensive MTV airplay, they are regarded as one of the leading artists of the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US.

If it seems a little time is needed

Decisions to be made (hey, hey, hey, hey)

The good advice of friends unheeded

The best of plans mislaid

Just looking for a new direction

In an old familiar way (hey, hey, hey, hey)

The forming of a new connection

To study or to play

 

And so the conversation turned

Until the sun went down

And many fantasies were learned

On that day

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on

 

Well the truth may need some re-arranging

Stories to be told (hey, hey, hey, hey)

And, plain to see, the facts are changing

No meaning left to hold

 

And so the conversation turned

Until the sun went down

And many fantasies were learned

On that day

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on

 

And so the conversation turned

Until the sun went down

And many fantasies were learned

On that day

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on.