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Heaven 17
Origin England
Genre(s) New Wave
Synthpop
New Romantic
Years active 1980–present
Label(s) EMI (Virgin Records) - UK, Australia, Canada
Sony BMG
Arista Records
Virgin Records - US
Cleopatra Records
Ninthwave Records - US
Associated acts The Human League
B.E.F.
Website http://www.heaven17.com/
Members
Glenn Gregory
Ian Craig Marsh
Martyn Ware

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Biography

Taking their name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (where 'The Heaven Seventeen' are at number 4 in the charts with "Inside" [1]), Heaven 17 formed when Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware split from their earlier group The Human League and formed production company British Electric Foundation (BEF). Anthony Burgess (February 25 1917 — November 22 1993 was an English Novelist, Critic, Composer, Librettist, Poet Ian Craig Marsh (born 11 November 1956) is an English musician Martyn Ware (born May 19 1956 in Sheffield, England) is a British musician BEF ( British Electric Foundation) are a band / production company formed by former Human League members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh BEF’s first recording was a cassette only album called Music for Stowaways and an LP called Music for Listening To. Shortly after, they recruited their friend and photographer Glenn Gregory on vocals to complete their lineup for Heaven 17; the group's friend Malcolm Veale often featured on tracks playing saxophone or synthesiser. Heaven 17 are a British Synthpop band originating from the city of Sheffield in the early 1980s

Like The Human League, Heaven 17 heavily used synthesizers and drum machines, the Linn LM-1 programmed by Ware particularly contributing to their signature sound. For the early "drum machine" computers that used a rotating cylinder as their main memory see Drum memory A drum machine is an The LM-1 Drum Computer, manufactured by Linn Electronics Inc, was the first Drum machine to utilize Digital Samples of acoustic Drums Session musicians were used for Bass and Guitar (John Wilson) and Grand Piano (Nick Plytas). They had some minor hits including the early "Play To Win", featured on the album Penthouse and Pavement. Penthouse and Pavement is the debut album by the group Heaven 17 and considered one of the first Concept albums of the 1980s Their debut single "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" from the same album had attracted some attention, becoming a left-wing anthem for a while, and was banned by Mike Reid, a Radio 1 DJ for the BBC, because of its overtly political lyrics, though it still reached #45 in the UK singles chart. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located

In the interim the band produced two further LPs as BEF. The first being Music of Quality & Distinction featuring Glenn Gregory, Paula Yates, Billy Mackenzie, Paul Jones, Bernadette Nolan and Gary Glitter. The tracks were cover versions of songs that Martyn, Ian & Glenn had grown up listening to. A follow up was issued in the 90’s called imaginatively;- Music of Quality & Distinction 2.

The second album was Geisha Boys and Temple Girls for the dance troupe Hot Gossip, which used songs formerly recorded by The Human League and Heaven 17 and a track each from Sting and Talking Heads. STING ( S equence T o and with' IN' G raphics is a free Web-based suite of programs for a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between protein sequence Talking head Talking Heads was an American New Wave band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991 This has recently been re-released. This album was originally to have been produced by Richard Burgess of Landscape.

Major chart success eluded them until the single "Temptation" (on which they were augmented by vocalist Carol Kenyon, a former backing singer for Isaac Hayes), reached #2 in the UK charts in summer 1983. "Temptation" is a single by Sheffield band Heaven 17, originally released in April 1983 peaking at number 2 in the UK charts Carol Kenyon (sometimes spelt Karol born c1959 is a British singer Other songs from the same album, The Luxury Gap, charted although not as high - "Come Live With Me" reached #5 in the UK, "Crushed By The Wheels of Industry" number 17, and "Let Me Go", #41 in November 1982. The Luxury Gap is the second album by Sheffield band Heaven 17. "Let Me Go" (labelled as Let Me Go! on the sleeve of the single is a single by Heaven 17, taken from (and released several months before their second album The album itself charted at #4, their best ever position.

At the end of 1983, the band (under their BEF guise and assisted by Greg Walsh) helped launch Tina Turner's solo career, producing and providing backing vocals on her debut hit "Let's Stay Together". Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an eight time Grammy Award -winning American 1984 saw the release of the moderately successful How Men Are, which reached#12 and featured the Earth, Wind and Fire brass section. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) How Men Are is the third album by the English Synthpop group Heaven 17, released in September 1984 by Virgin Records.

The band also worked on the Band Aid single at the end of 1984, with Gregory supplying vocals alongside Midge Ure and Sting after a personal request from Ure that he attend. Band Aid was a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money Midge Ure OBE (born James Ure, 10 October 1953, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a pop guitarist singer Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951) better known by his Stage name Sting, is a three time Academy Award However, they did not perform at Live Aid the following year. Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia Heaven 17's first live performance was in 1986 on the UK TV show "The Tube" - though live is pushing the term as Ian was operating a Series IIx Fairlight CMI and a Revox Reel to Reel tape recorder was wizzing away in the background.

Pleasure One (featuring the single "Trouble" - a minor hit in the UK at #51, but a big success in Germany where it reached #17) appeared in 1986 and contained a number of songs that were originally intended for a French film project that never came to be. This was the first Heaven 17 album to not mention production credits for BEF and the abbreviation BEF would not appear again until "Bigger Than America" (1996). It was followed up in 1988 with Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho (featuring the single "Train of Love in Motion"), although these two albums were poorly received and had little commercial success. The early 1990s were a quiet period for the band and they would not work together as Heaven 17 again until 1996's Bigger Than America. In the preceding years, Marsh and Ware produced a second BEF album to follow 1982's original Music of Quality and Distinction and Gregory formed the band Ugly. Ware became an in-demand producer, working for the likes of Terence Trent D'Arby, Alison Moyet and Erasure. In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Sananda Maitreya redirects here This article is about the singer Alison Moyet (born Genevieve Alison Jane Moyet on 18 June 1961 is an English pop Singer-songwriter noted for her Bluesy voice. Erasure are an English Synth pop duo formed by Songwriter and Keyboardist Vince Clarke and Singer "Temptation" was remixed and re-released in 1992, reaching number 4 on the UK Singles chart. "Temptation" is a single by Sheffield band Heaven 17, originally released in April 1983 peaking at number 2 in the UK charts

2005 saw the release of the long-awaited Before After, which had a much more contemporary dance sound compared to previous albums. A CD of remixes of "Hands Up To Heaven" from the album hit number 6 on the Billboard Magazine US Club Play Chart in May 2006. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry In October the same year Virgin issued a greatest hits compilation called Sight and Sound, which included a previously-unheard version of "Temptation" with spoken vocals by an unknown student from Germany whom the band met in 1982. It had been discovered on 1-inch tape by Glenn Gregory's mother and remastered by Simon Heyworth.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation, live, and tribute albums

Appearances in popular culture

Trivia

Honeyroot

Honeyroot is an ambient dance collaboration between Glenn Gregory and Keith Lowndes, signed to the Just Music recording company. Honeyroot is an Ambient dance collaboration between Glenn Gregory and Keith Lowndes, that is signed to the ' Just Music ' recording company Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes Heaven 17 are a British Synthpop band originating from the city of Sheffield in the early 1980s Just Music is a British Independent record label, which makes music from state of the art Electronica to ambient acoustic taking in The project has its origins in the 1997 Blatant Records release Skyscraping by ABC. Martin Fry resurrected ABC's name in 1997 for the album Skyscraping, a homage to several of his musical heroes including David Bowie, Roxy Music and The ABC are an English pop band that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990 As ABC was essentially Martin Fry, after the departure of co-member Mark White, Keith Lowndes and fellow Sheffield native Glenn Gregory of the electropop-funk band Heaven 17 were brought in for co-writing duties on the album. Martin Fry (born 9 March, 1958, in Manchester) is lead singer of the band ABC. Mark Wells White (born March 17 1940) is an American lawyer who served as the forty-third Governor of Texas from 1983 - 1987

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