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44: 576: 426:, to join the band. Oakey had noticed them for their dance moves, dress style and makeup. They were already fans of the Human League and recognised Oakey. He now calls this the best decision of his career, as the girls would be critical in the band's further success, and Sulley and Catherall became Oakey's business partners in the present-day band. 338:, was unavailable, so Ware suggested Oakey to Marsh. Although Oakey had little music experience, he was well known in the Sheffield social scene for his eclectic dress sense and classic motorcycle. Ware invited Oakey to join the Future by leaving a note on Oakey's front door. Oakey joined the band in mid-1977. 507:
disappear without a trace. Gone, gone into the past with all you've hoped for. About that time, I think, I had a low-grade nervous breakdown." Oakey's and Sulley's emotional problems nearly caused the band to dissolve. Thanks mainly to the efforts of Catherall, by 1993 Oakey and Sulley had recovered
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The media regularly commented and joked about Oakey's style. He pushed his style further and began wearing high-heeled shoes. He already had both his ears pierced and wore dangling women's diamante earrings. On a 1981 poster, Oakey posed shirtless with pierced nipples linked by a gold chain. Oakey
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entered the UK Album Chart and peaked at #16. Despite this, the band still had no hit singles and, dogged by the lack of commercial success, Oakey and Ware's working relationship became increasingly strained. During the autumn of 1980, on the eve of a European tour, the tension reached a breaking
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underperformed commercially, peaking at #24 in the UK and in 1992, Virgin Records cancelled the band's recording contract. This had a devastating effect on the band, causing Oakey to seek counselling for depression and Sulley to have a breakdown. Oakey recalled in 1995: "We watched
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Throughout his career and in his personal life, Oakey has been a flamboyant dresser and fashion trendsetter. His semi-transvestite dress style, lipstick-eyeliner makeup, and original hairstyle would make him an iconic figure of the early 1980s music scene.
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hairstyle, he was inspired to adopt a lopsided geometric hairstyle, shoulder length on one side and short on the other. Between 1978 and 1979 with his unique hairstyle, he maintained a masculine dress style and at one time wore a full beard.
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Oakey has worked solo and also with other artists and producers. His first collaboration was producing the Spanish-released single "Amor Secreto" by Nick Fury in 1983 for which he also played synthesiser, together with
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to the band complemented his look. At times, all three would wear the same eyeliner and lipstick. Oakey and Catherall, who were to enter into a romantic relationship, often looked and dressed almost identically.
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Facing financial ruin with the tour promoters threatening to sue him, Oakey had less than a week to assemble a new band. In an unplanned move, Oakey visited a Sheffield city-centre discothèque called
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and Adi Newton, had formed a band called the Future. They were part of an emerging genre of music that used analogue synthesisers instead of traditional instruments, a style later to be termed
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says of his early-1980s style: "I deliberately wore clothes that either men or women could wear. But I don't think I ever really looked like a woman. And I never wore very masculine clothes."
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Oakey was among the most visually distinctive music artists of the early 1980s. At the height of their success, the Human League released the triple platinum-certified studio album
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Soon after the Future transformed into the Human League, Oakey wanted a look that would make him stand out from other lead singers. After spotting a girl on a Sheffield bus with a
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at Thornbury Annex Hospital in Sheffield in 1977. In 1978, Oakey married his girlfriend Anthea Helliwell, whom he had met at school, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1980.
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Oakey's entry into music in 1977 was unintentional. He purchased a saxophone but abandoned efforts to learn how to play it, and he had no aspiration to be in a pop group.
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were permitted to retain the band name but would be responsible for all band debts and the tour commitment. Ware and Marsh soon recruited Glenn Gregory and became
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When the band returned in 1995, Oakey, approaching the age of 40, appeared with designer clothes and a suave, short, neat haircut. He generally wears a simple
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By 1981, after the formation of the new Human League, Oakey's trademark style of the early 1980s was complete. Along with full makeup, Oakey had begun wearing
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Oakey also appeared in public in full makeup, dressed in his eclectic style. He states that "Sheffield was so accepting that no one ever blinked an eyelid."
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to grant a business development loan for the building of Human League Studios in Sheffield, Oakey's dedicated studio for the band and a commercial venture.
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in Sheffield. He left school at 18 without finishing his exams and worked in a number of casual jobs, including one in a university bookshop and as a
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Oakey deliberately does not have an official website, not wanting to do what others do, and apparently believing it is expensive to have one.
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would soon become a #1 album in the UK and achieve multi-platinum status. At the end of 1981, the fourth and final single from the album, "
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album, Oakey wore denim and leather and readopted his lopsided hairstyle from 1981 in a rebellion against "the male model look of
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song "This Used to Be the Future." Also in 2009, Oakey collaborated with British female synthpop artist
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The remainder of the 1980s saw the band's success peak and dip, with the follow-up release of the album
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Oakey had a relationship with Catherall which lasted several years; the pair remain friends.
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In late 1977, the Future changed its name to the Human League, named after an element of a
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in 1984 underachieving. In 1986, Oakey accepted an offer to work with American producers
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album, Oakey wore designer clothes and a manicured look that was inspired by
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Another change of record label saw the release of the critically acclaimed
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point and Ware departed, taking Marsh along. Oakey and director of visuals
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His most commercially successful collaboration was with producer
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Reynolds, Simon (2009). "Phil Oakey, The Human League, Singer".
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and recruited two teenage girls whom he saw dancing there,
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After the tour, the band had their first UK Top 20 hit, "
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By 1990, the Human League had begun to decline. For the
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lead singer David "Bozz" Boswell, for the song "2 am."
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failed to chart, but after an impromptu appearance on
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In 1985, Oakey and Moroder released the joint album
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Interview: Oakey – Nottingham Evening Post 28/11/08
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Index

Phil Oakey

the Human League
Hinckley
Leicestershire
Synth-pop
new wave
electronic
Fast Product
Virgin
EMI
EastWest
Wall of Sound
The Human League
synth-pop
the Human League
Dare
Don't You Want Me
Hinckley
General Post Office
Coventry
Leeds
Birmingham
Catherine-de-Barnes
Solihull
Solihull School
Sheffield
King Edward VII School
hospital orderly
Martyn Ware

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