Q 01/05

Before Don't You Want Me became the 1981 Christmas number one, how did singer Philip Oakey rate the song?

A) A sure-fire hit single

B) A weak filler track

C) Too personal to release

D) The album's best song

Answer · why

B) A weak filler track

Oakey thought it a weak filler track and hid it at the end of side two of Dare. His label overruled him and released it as the album's fourth single.

Q 02/05

Where did Philip Oakey find teenagers Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall when rebuilding The Human League?

A) At a school talent show

B) In a record shop

C) In a city nightclub

D) At a youth drama club

Answer · why

C) In a city nightclub

Oakey spotted the pair in a city nightclub, Sheffield's Crazy Daisy, days before a tour was due to start. Neither had sung or danced professionally.

Q 03/05

Which rock star watched The Human League in December 1978 and told the NME he had seen the future of pop music?

A) David Bowie

B) Brian Eno

C) Bryan Ferry

D) Peter Gabriel

Answer · why

A) David Bowie

David Bowie turned up in the audience when the band had released just one independent single. Within six months they had signed to a far bigger label.

Q 04/05

Which band did founders Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh form after walking out of The Human League in 1980?

A) Cabaret Voltaire

B) Clock DVA

C) Soft Cell

D) Heaven 17

Answer · why

D) Heaven 17

Heaven 17 scored a number two hit with Temptation in 1983. Under the old contract the departing pair also earned one per cent of the royalties on Dare...

Q 05/05

The cover of The Human League's 1981 album Dare was designed to look like an issue of which magazine?

A) Tatler

B) The Face

C) Vogue

D) Elle

Answer · why

C) Vogue

Vogue had run a cover bearing the single word Dare, which gave the album its title too. The portraits were cropped close so that dated hairstyles woul...