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	ireland.com // T H E T I C K E T // 'YOU WERE WORKING AS A WAITRESS IN A COCKTAIL BAR...'
		Phil Oakey remembers it well: "We're always getting requests for our songs to be used in ads and this time they came to us and said Ford wanted to do a jokey advert about Don't You Want Me. We told them, as usual, to get stuffed.
		Oakey is still annoyed about how the band were perceived at the height of their success.
		Oakey, a refreshingly candid and intelligent person who has seen many different sides of the music industry over the past 25 years or so, says he has no plans (despite plenty of interest) to write a book about his experiences.
	www.ireland.com /theticket/articles/2005/0819/3309073064TK1908HUMANLEAGUE.html (1495 words)

	BBC News \| MUSIC \| MTV's League success
		Phil Oakey, lead singer of the definitive 80s group Human League, says pop video channel MTV was vital to the band's global success.
		But Oakey is adamant that their impact would have been minimal without the video they made for the track - spurred on by the advent of MTV in August the same year.
		Oakey is uncertain whether MTV - and its promotion of the video - can be held solely responsible for the increased involvement of the marketing men in pop.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/music/1468087.stm (566 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts Friday Review \| Prog pop
		Oakey joined what was to become the Human League in 1977, after Martyn Ware walked into his flat with a copy of Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express under one arm and Donna Summer's I Feel Love under the other.
		At the time Oakey was working as a hospital porter in a plastic-surgery theatre and had no musical ambitions "or any ambitions whatsoever, for that matter", but it was his combination of height, eyeliner and lop-sided hairstyle that went on to give the 1980s one of its most enduring images.
		Oakey has been going out again after decades of the quiet life, learning to DJ and checking out the hard house and trance music that is the product of contemporary technology, just as the Human League were the product of the technology available in their time.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,929057,00.html (954 words)

	Don't you want me, baby? - www.smh.com.au
		Oakey, a shy, quiet type, was just the least antisocial of the bunch.
		Oakey, who recently confessed that he didn't go out in Sheffield for 10 years because he was sick of having drinks tipped on him, is having the time of his life.
		Oakey isn't too precious about it all, although he does draw the line a bit further back than some of his colleagues on this tour.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/13/1068674315375.html?from=storyrhs (710 words)

	Don't You Want Me, Baby?
		Call-and-response between Phil Oakey and the girls Joanne Catherall (dark) and Susan Sulley (blond), with a hookline that is as basic as it is brainwashing; it's all so familiar, you forget it ever went away.
		Phil was single, without children, living in a house that few people visited.
		He believes that the reason the band lost their way with Hysteria and Crash was because they dared to stray away from their own creed; and he says this, as he says almost everything, in utter seriousness.
	freespace.virgin.net /t.ashford/Don't-You.htm (1042 words)

	BBC - Top of the Pops 2 - You Got The Look!
		Considering it was 20 years ago, Phil 'okey cokie' Oakey's haircut remains revolutionary.
		It was either based on a horse's tail, or inspired by a character from the 1930's Todd Browning flick, Freaks.
		Phil looks reasonably sober in this pic but a pleated, chiffon ladies top, leather trousers, stilettoes and heaps of rouge and cherry red lipstick would really complement the hair if you're feeling frisky.
	www.bbc.co.uk /totp2/ugotthelook/human_league.shtml (462 words)

	JudgeJules.net - Club News - Interviews - 120-interview- human league
		Phil Oakey: “With this new album, it’s been a record company decision and not ours to release it, but it’s inevitable for these sort of things to happen if you’re doing all right and especially if you’ve been reassessed in the way we have.
		Phil Oakey: “Oh yes, we were pinching ideas from everywhere but we weren’t very good at it, so it didn’t sound like the original.
		Phil Oakey: “I don’t know, I still believe in some of the ideals of that era, for example, I believe in simplicity and that the simplest records are the best.
	www.judgejules.net /index.php?page=440 (1286 words)

	R&M Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Seated at a large circular table in the private upstairs room of Blaggard's bolt hole in Soho, The Human League's Phil Oakey scans the room for a mirror.
		Phil: I think with the band, it just looked like it was a lark for a long time and I suppose you get to a certain age where you think, "I'm not going to be able to change and do anything else."
		Phil: It's funny that growing up thing isn't it, because you know a load of people who are really proud of the fact that they haven't grown up.
	www.vicandbob.net /text/loaded4_int.htm (2462 words)

	Phil Oakey - TheBestLinks.com - Philip Oakey, Human League, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Philip Oakey is the lead singer of the electronic band The Human League.
		While the bulk of his work has been with this band, he also had a brief career as a solo artist in the mid-1980s, after the Human League's album "Hysteria", working with producer Giorgio Moroder.
		After releasing this album, Philip Oakey rejoined the Human League to work on their next album "Crash".
	www.thebestlinks.com /Philip_Oakey.html (218 words)

	80's 3 Human league
		With the joining of Phil Oakey came another final name change to "The Human League".
		"Reproduction" was their first album and with Phil Oakeys look and style he became the focal point of the group.
		Bizzarley, Oakey chose two teenage girls who he met in a nightclub as their replacements even though they had no experience at all.
	www.geocities.com /mizzian/80-3.html (271 words)

	Future Music 1996
		Phil Oakey on the technology, the sound and rebirth of the band.
		By this stage, you get the impression that Phil is much more interested in rough and experimental doodlings than the synth pop for which he and the rest of the team are now famous for.
		And as Phil Oakey explains, they do not have a problem with being seen as one of the late arrivals on the current analogue-hungry music scene.
	www.league-online.com /futuremusic.html (3179 words)

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