The Human League Video Single (1983)

The Human League Video Single is a compilation of music videos by the British synthpop group The Human League, released on VHS and Betamax format tape, and marketed as a "video single," released in the UK in August 1983.

Advert for video single in the UK press

It was the first "Video Single" to be released in the UK, designed to tap into the market created by the new and rapidly increasing popularity of domestic Videocassette recorders in the UK. Although extremely innovative, because it was such a new concept it was not a huge commercial success at the time. It was also not helped by a retail price of £10.99 which in 1983 was very expensive compared to the average cost of a vinyl single at £1.99. Within a few years such releases would be common place in the music industry. The video single would be a precursor to the Human Leagues next video venture, The Human League Greatest Hits released five years later in 1988 ^[1]

Track list

The Video Single was released after the success of the single "Mirror Man" which had reached number two in the UK single charts in December 1982, and "Mirror Man" is the title track, bundled together with the band's two previous biggest selling single videos.

References

↑ Kolling, Niels

External links

http://www.the-black-hit-of-space.dk/mirror_man_video.htm

The Human League

Philip Oakey Joanne Catherall Susan Ann Sulley Ian Craig Marsh Martyn Ware Philip Adrian Wright Ian Burden Jo Callis Jim Russell

Albums	Reproduction Travelogue Dare Love and Dancing Hysteria Crash Romantic? Octopus Secrets Credo

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Soundtrack to a Generation The Very Best of the Human League (Ark 21) The Golden Hour of the Future The Very Best of the Human League Live at the Dome Original Remixes & Rarities

EPs	The Dignity of Labour Holiday '80 The Sound of the Crowd Fascination! Dance Like a Star

Singles	"Being Boiled" "I Don't Depend on You" "Empire State Human" "Only After Dark" "Boys and Girls" "The Sound of the Crowd" "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" "Open Your Heart" "Don't You Want Me" "Mirror Man" "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" "The Lebanon" "Life on Your Own" "Louise" "Human" "I Need Your Loving" "Love Is All That Matters" "Heart Like a Wheel" "Soundtrack to a Generation" "Tell Me When" "One Man in My Heart" "Filling Up with Heaven" "Stay with Me Tonight" "All I Ever Wanted" "Love Me Madly?" "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" "Night People" "Never Let Me Go" "Egomaniac" "Sky"

Video and DVDs	Video Single (1983) The Human League Greatest Hits The Very Best of The Human League Live at the Dome

Related articles	Discography Heaven 17 Crazy Daisy Nightclub British Electric Foundation Martin Rushent Jam and Lewis Giorgio Moroder Michiel Van Bokhorst Fast Records Synthpop Sheffield Reproductions Together in Electric Dreams (album)

Other projects	YMO Versus The Human League

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