It was forty years ago today … working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
Human League were one of those ‘overnight successes’ that crashed into the limelight with a couple of singles off this album, only for you to find that the rest of the album was pretty-damned good as well – followed by the further discovery that this was not their debut, although the line-up had significantly changed along the way. It was not a huge surprise that both the album, and the single ‘Don’t You Want Me’, were massive hits here in the UK, with the rise in electronic music at the time, but getting a synth-pop album like this to number three in the US album charts was probably their most outstanding achievement.
Album: Dare
Artist: Human League
Released: 24th October 1981
Weeks in UK Album Chart: 74
Number of Weeks at No.1: 4
