Susan ann sulley biography of william
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The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]
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A few weeks ago, I read this:
It was said by Susan Ann Sulley, one of the singers in The Human League about their iconic song, ‘Don’t You Want Me’.
I have to admit, it has absolutely captivated me.
From the acknowledgement there was a real chance they could have put sleigh bells on the song if they thought it would chart over Christmas – which would have immediately made the song a novelty record rather than one of pop’s true classics – to her statement of simply being ‘an ordinary girl, doing her best’.
The level of honesty featured in those few lines is both breath-taking and disarming … especially given it comes from someone from within an industry that loves to big-talk itself, even when they haven’t had a Worldwide hit like Susan has.
To be honest, this openness is reflected in the entire article – which reinforces some ‘no nonsens
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Octopus (The Human League album)
1995 studio album by The Human League
Octopus is the seventh full-length studio album recorded by the British synth-pop band The Human League. It was produced by the former Tears for Fears keyboard player Ian Stanley and released by EastWest Records in 1995. It was the first new album from The Human League in five years after the termination of their long-term contract with Virgin Records. Octopus was the first Human League album that presented the band as a trio consisting of the singers Philip Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. The former Human League member Jo Callis and keyboard player Neil Sutton also contributed to the writing of the album.
The album's sound is notable for almost exclusively featuring analogue synthesizers, a marked change from the band's primarily "digital" sound in the mid-to-late 1980s.
Background
[edit]The album saw a return to the public eye for the band, who had been out of the top ten since their 1986 album Crash. Band members Catherall and Sulley admitted that Octopus is "probably our last shot at the big time."[12] Oakey described the album as the band returning to its synthesizer roots, saying: "We went in some silly directions after Dare, trying to bring in acoust
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