Heaven 17
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Heaven 17 are an English synthpop
band originating from Sheffield
in the early 1980s. The trio comprises Martyn Ware
(keyboards), Ian Craig Marsh
(keyboards) (both previously with The Human League
) and Glenn Gregory
(vocals). Although most of the band's music was recorded in the 1980s, they have occasionally reformed to record and perform since then, playing their first ever live concerts in 1997.
and Martyn Ware
were the founder members of pioneering British electro-pop group The Human League
; Glenn Gregory had been their original choice when seeking a vocalist for the band but he was unavailable at the time, so they chose Philip Oakey
instead. When personal and creative tensions within the group reached breaking point in late 1980 Marsh and Ware left the band, ceding the Human League name to Oakey. Taking their new name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess
's novel, A Clockwork Orange
, (where The Heaven Seventeen are at number 4 in the charts with "Inside"), they became Heaven 17 and formed the production company British Electric Foundation
(BEF).
BEF’s first recording
was a cassette
-only album called Music for Stowaways and an LP called Music for Listening to. Shortly after, they completed their line-up when they recruited their friend, photographer Glenn Gregory, as vocalist. Like The Human League, Heaven 17 heavily used synthesisers and drum machine
s (the Linn LM-1
programmed by Ware). Session musician
s were used for bass and guitar (John Wilson) and grand piano (Nick Plytas). Whereas the band's former colleagues The Human League had gone on to major chart success in 1981, Heaven 17 struggled to make an impact. Their debut single "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
" attracted some attention and, due to its overtly left-wing political lyrics, was banned by BBC Radio 1
DJ Mike Read
(who is a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party
), and neither this nor any other of the four singles taken from the band's debut album Penthouse and Pavement
managed to reach the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart
. The album itself proved to be a minor success and peaked at Number 14 on the UK Albums Chart
, and was later certified gold
by the BPI
in 1982.
Around this time, Ware and Marsh produced two further LPs as BEF, the first being Music of Quality & Distinction Volume One featuring Glenn Gregory, Tina Turner
, Paula Yates
, Billy Mackenzie
, Hank Marvin
, Paul Jones
, Bernadette Nolan
and Gary Glitter
. The tracks were cover version
s of songs that Ware, Marsh and Gregory had grown up listening to. The album peaked at Number 25.
The second album was Geisha Boys and Temple Girls for the dance troupe Hot Gossip
, which used songs formerly recorded by The Human League and Heaven 17, and a track each from Sting and Talking Heads
. BEF took over production duties when Richard Burgess of the group Landscape
was unable to do so.
In October 1982, Heaven 17 released their new single "Let Me Go", but this too charted just outside the UK Top 40. However, in 1983, the band's fortunes changed. Their next single, "Temptation
" (on which they were augmented by vocalist Carol Kenyon
), reached Number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in Spring 1983 and became their biggest hit. The song was taken from their second album, The Luxury Gap
, which featured further chart hits "Come Live with Me
" (UK Number 5) and "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry
" (UK Number 17). The album itself charted at Number 4 in the UK Albums Chart
, their highest ever position, and was certified platinum by the BPI in 1984.
In the United States, the self-titled Heaven 17 album was a re-working of Penthouse and Pavement with three songs deleted and replaced by "Let Me Go", "Who'll Stop the Rain" and "I'm Your Money" (along with a different mix of "The Height of the Fighting"). American new wave
audiences were most familiar with "Let Me Go", which received high rotation airplay on Alternative/New Wave format radio stations, such as Los Angeles, California's KROQ-FM
, and Long Island, New York's WLIR
, plus frequent MTV exposure.
Towards the end of 1983, the band (under their BEF guise and assisted by Greg Walsh) helped relaunch Tina Turner
's career, producing and providing backing vocals on her hit "Let's Stay Together
", a cover of the Al Green
song. 1984 saw the release of the third Heaven 17 album, How Men Are
, which reached Number 12 in the UK chart and was certified silver by the BPI. The album featured the Earth, Wind and Fire brass section, and two singles from the album ("Sunset Now
" and "This Is Mine
") both reached the UK Top 40, but would be the band's last singles to do so until various remixes were released in the 1990s.
The band also worked on the Band Aid
single at the end of 1984, with Gregory supplying vocals alongside Midge Ure
and Sting, after a personal request from Ure that he attend. However, they did not perform at Live Aid
the following year. Heaven 17's first "live" performance was in 1986 on the UK television programme The Tube
(though the band made use of backing tapes during this performance).
After the remix album Endless peaked at Number 70 in July 1986, the band's fourth studio album Pleasure One
was released in November 1986 and featured the single "Trouble
" (UK Number 51, Germany Number 17). The album contained a number of songs that were originally intended for a French film project that never came to be. This was also the first Heaven 17 album to not mention production credits for BEF and the abbreviation would not appear again until Bigger Than America in 1996. It was followed up in 1988 with the album Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho
(featuring the singles "Train of Love in Motion" and "The Ballad of Go Go Brown
"), although these two albums were poorly received and had little commercial success. In September 1988, the band appeared on the bill at the Sport Aid
event in Sheffield.
and Billy Mackenzie
, but this time also featuring artists such as Scritti Politti
's Green Gartside
, Lalah Hathaway
, Billy Preston
, and Chaka Khan
). Ware also became a producer for the likes of Terence Trent D'Arby, Marc Almond
and Erasure. Gregory, meanwhile, went on to form the band Ugly.
In late 1992, a remix of "Temptation" reached Number 4 and was followed by the compilation album Higher and Higher – The Best of Heaven 17 in 1993. Remixes of "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
" and "Penthouse and Pavement" were also minor hits in 1993. However, the band would not release any new material as Heaven 17 until 1996's Bigger Than America album, though this failed to chart.
, which had a much more contemporary dance
sound compared to previous albums. A CD of remix
es of "Hands Up to Heaven" from the album reached number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
chart in May 2006. In October the same year Virgin Records
issued a greatest hits
compilation album
entitled Sight and Sound, which included a previously-unheard version of "Temptation" with spoken vocals by an unknown student from Germany whom the band met in 1982. It had been discovered on 1-inch tape by Gregory's mother and was remastered by Simon Heyworth. In November 2005, Heaven 17 were filmed for a live DVD playing to a packed house at The Scala
in London. The DVD contains an in-depth question-and-answer session with both Ware and Gregory, and fans' reactions to the gig.
In 2006, Marsh stopped making live appearances with the band. In an early 2009 interview, Ware stated that Marsh had left the band and was now studying at university. Since the mid 1990s, Billie Godfrey
has worked with the band as a backing vocalist and appears with them at concerts. She appeared with them as part of the band on 21 November 2008 for their highest profile TV appearance of recent years on Now That's What I Call 1983 on ITV1
. In December 2008, Heaven 17 toured the UK as part of the Sheffield band based Steel City Tour alongside The Human League and ABC
. Coinciding with this was the release of their new album, Naked as Advertised – Versions 08
, issued through the Just Music record label
. The album contained re-workings of tracks such as "Temptation" along with versions of Ware songs best known from his time with the Human League, including "Being Boiled
" and "Empire State Human
", as well as a cover
of the Associates' hit "Party Fears Two".
In December 2009, Heaven 17 made appearances at the "Nokia Night of the Proms
" in Germany.
to record a joint live session for the BBC
which was shown on the BBC Red Button interactive channel in January 2010 while Glenn Gregory joined La Roux on stage at Glastonbury on 26 June 2010, performing "Temptation
". (La Roux cite Heaven 17 as one of their main influences). The two acts also appeared live on stage at the War Child
Brit Awards
aftershow in February 2010.
In the run up to their 30th anniversary, the band announced several live dates in which they would perform their 1981 debut album Penthouse and Pavement
live in its entirety for the first time. The dates were scheduled over November and December 2010 with the first date held on 10 November 2010 at the well known Leadmill
venue in Sheffield. By chance the Leadmill also celebrated a 30 year anniversary in 2010. By their own admission this Leadmill gig was one of the band's most successful. The band performed a couple of dates of the Penthouse and Pavement tour in March 2010, one of which was in Sheffield and was filmed and shown on BBC Two
on 16 May 2010. An hour-long documentary about the making of the album was shown on BBC Two the following night. This film was also screened at a special "Music in Sheffield" evening of films at the Showroom
in Sheffield, at which Martyn Ware attended, on the eve of the announcement of the City of Culture 2013. Sheffield were unsuccessful losing out to Derry.
The band appeared on on Later... with Jools Holland on 22 October 2010, performing "Fascist Groove Thang" and "Temptation" and appeared in BBC Children in Need in November 2010. They also made a tongue-in-cheek appearance in TV advertisements for Sheffield-based broadband provider, Plusnet
. On 22 November the band released a 2 disc DVD combining never-seen-before documentary and rehearsal footage with the band's full live concert filmed in Sheffield in March 2010. Also included was a unique collection of all the digital videos used in the live show, set to the accompanying live audio from the performance. Each video was commissioned by a different visual artist and included both established up-and-coming artists from the worlds of digital and graphic design, fine art and film.
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...
band originating from Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
in the early 1980s. The trio comprises Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware
Martyn "Teddy Bear" Ware is a British musician and music producer. He is the chairman of a local football team: PPA. As a founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit records such as "Being Boiled" and "Temptation"...
(keyboards), Ian Craig Marsh
Ian Craig Marsh
Ian Craig Marsh is a former English musician. He was a founding member of the electronic band The Human League, writing and playing on their first two albums and several singles, until leaving in 1980 to form B.E.F...
(keyboards) (both previously with The Human League
The Human League
The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...
) and Glenn Gregory
Glenn Gregory
Glenn Gregory is an English musician. A founding member of Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit records such as "Temptation"....
(vocals). Although most of the band's music was recorded in the 1980s, they have occasionally reformed to record and perform since then, playing their first ever live concerts in 1997.
1980s
Ian Craig MarshIan Craig Marsh
Ian Craig Marsh is a former English musician. He was a founding member of the electronic band The Human League, writing and playing on their first two albums and several singles, until leaving in 1980 to form B.E.F...
and Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware
Martyn "Teddy Bear" Ware is a British musician and music producer. He is the chairman of a local football team: PPA. As a founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit records such as "Being Boiled" and "Temptation"...
were the founder members of pioneering British electro-pop group The Human League
The Human League
The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...
; Glenn Gregory had been their original choice when seeking a vocalist for the band but he was unavailable at the time, so they chose Philip Oakey
Philip Oakey
Philip Oakey is an English composer, singer, songwriter and producer.He is best known as the lead singer, frontman and co-founder of the famous English synthpop band The Human League. He has also had an extensive solo music career and collaborated with numerous other artists and producers...
instead. When personal and creative tensions within the group reached breaking point in late 1980 Marsh and Ware left the band, ceding the Human League name to Oakey. Taking their new name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Burgess Wilson – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...
's novel, A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. The novel contains an experiment in language: the characters often use an argot called "Nadsat", derived from Russian....
, (where The Heaven Seventeen are at number 4 in the charts with "Inside"), they became Heaven 17 and formed the production company British Electric Foundation
B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation)
B.E.F. are a band/production company formed by former Human League members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh who later became Heaven 17 .-History:Ware and Marsh's first release as B.E.F...
(BEF).
BEF’s first recording
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
was a cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
-only album called Music for Stowaways and an LP called Music for Listening to. Shortly after, they completed their line-up when they recruited their friend, photographer Glenn Gregory, as vocalist. Like The Human League, Heaven 17 heavily used synthesisers and drum machine
Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music...
s (the Linn LM-1
Linn LM-1
The LM-1 Drum Computer, manufactured by Linn Electronics Inc., was the first drum machine to use digital samples of acoustic drums. Conceived and designed by Roger Linn, it was also one of the first programmable drum machines...
programmed by Ware). Session musician
Session musician
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
s were used for bass and guitar (John Wilson) and grand piano (Nick Plytas). Whereas the band's former colleagues The Human League had gone on to major chart success in 1981, Heaven 17 struggled to make an impact. Their debut single "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
" Fascist Groove Thang" is a song written and performed by British synthpop band Heaven 17. It was a minor hit in the UK in 1981, despite being banned by the BBC...
" attracted some attention and, due to its overtly left-wing political lyrics, was banned by BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
DJ Mike Read
Mike Read
Michael David Kenneth Read is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.-Early life:...
(who is a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
), and neither this nor any other of the four singles taken from the band's debut album Penthouse and Pavement
Penthouse and Pavement
-2010 3-disc Special Edition:Disc 1:#" Fascist Groove Thang"#"Penthouse And Pavement"#"Play To Win"#"Soul Warfare"#"Geisha Boys And Temple Girls"#"Let's All Make A Bomb"#"The Height Of The Fighting"#"Song With No Name"...
managed to reach the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
. The album itself proved to be a minor success and peaked at Number 14 on the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
, and was later certified gold
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
by the BPI
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...
in 1982.
Around this time, Ware and Marsh produced two further LPs as BEF, the first being Music of Quality & Distinction Volume One featuring Glenn Gregory, Tina Turner
Tina Turner
Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
, Paula Yates
Paula Yates
Paula Elizabeth Yates was a British television presenter and writer, best known for her work on two television programmes, The Tube and The Big Breakfast.-Early life:...
, Billy Mackenzie
Billy Mackenzie
William MacArthur "Billy" Mackenzie was a Scottish singer, with a distinctive falsetto voice best known as a member of The Associates.- Biography :...
, Hank Marvin
Hank Marvin
Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...
, Paul Jones
Paul Jones (singer)
Paul Jones is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, and radio personality and television presenter.-Career:As P. P...
, Bernadette Nolan
Bernadette Nolan
Bernadette Therese "Bernie" Nolan is an Irish actress, singer and television personality, formerly lead vocalist of The Nolans. Her siblings are Anne, Brian, Denise, Maureen, Tommy, Linda and Coleen Nolan. She is the second youngest...
and Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s...
. The tracks were cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
s of songs that Ware, Marsh and Gregory had grown up listening to. The album peaked at Number 25.
The second album was Geisha Boys and Temple Girls for the dance troupe Hot Gossip
Hot Gossip
-Formation:Arlene Phillips came to London to learn and teach developing American Jazz dance routines. Employed as a dance teacher, she taught at locations including the Pineapple Dance Studios and the Italia Conti Stage School. In 1974, Phillips started forming the core of a troupe; Italia Conti...
, which used songs formerly recorded by The Human League and Heaven 17, and a track each from Sting and Talking Heads
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
. BEF took over production duties when Richard Burgess of the group Landscape
Landscape (band)
Landscape is a British band, best known for the 1981 hits, "Einstein A Go-Go" and "Norman Bates". Formed in 1974, they toured constantly during the mid- to late-1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EPs on their own Event Horizon label...
was unable to do so.
In October 1982, Heaven 17 released their new single "Let Me Go", but this too charted just outside the UK Top 40. However, in 1983, the band's fortunes changed. Their next single, "Temptation
Temptation (Heaven 17 song)
"Temptation" is a single by Sheffield band Heaven 17, originally released in April 1983, peaking at number 2 in the UK charts. This was the second single to be taken from their second album The Luxury Gap, after November 1982's "Let Me Go"....
" (on which they were augmented by vocalist Carol Kenyon
Carol Kenyon
Carol Kenyon , is a British singer. She was born c. 1959.Although primarily known as a session vocalist on many albums and singles by a variety of prominent artists, as well as in many concerts, Kenyon has also released several singles as a solo artist...
), reached Number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in Spring 1983 and became their biggest hit. The song was taken from their second album, The Luxury Gap
The Luxury Gap
The Luxury Gap is the second album by the English synthpop band Heaven 17. Released in 1983, it is the band's biggest selling album, peaking at number 4 in the UK charts and was certified Platinum by the BPI in 1984....
, which featured further chart hits "Come Live with Me
Come Live with Me (Heaven 17 song)
"Come Live With Me" is a single from synthpop trio Heaven 17 which appeared on the album The Luxury Gap. It was written by all three members. The single was released in mid-1983 and peaked at #5 in the UK, spending 11 weeks on the chart...
" (UK Number 5) and "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry
Crushed by the Wheels of Industry
"Crushed by the Wheels of Industry" is the last single of 1983 from synthpop trio Heaven 17 which appeared on the album The Luxury Gap. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1983 and peaked at #17 in the UK, spending 7 weeks on the chart...
" (UK Number 17). The album itself charted at Number 4 in the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
, their highest ever position, and was certified platinum by the BPI in 1984.
In the United States, the self-titled Heaven 17 album was a re-working of Penthouse and Pavement with three songs deleted and replaced by "Let Me Go", "Who'll Stop the Rain" and "I'm Your Money" (along with a different mix of "The Height of the Fighting"). American new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
audiences were most familiar with "Let Me Go", which received high rotation airplay on Alternative/New Wave format radio stations, such as Los Angeles, California's KROQ-FM
KROQ-FM
KROQ-FM — branded 106.7 KROQ — is a commercial modern rock radio station licensed to Pasadena, California serving the Greater Los Angeles. The call sign is pronounced "kay rock." It is the flagship station of Loveline hosted by Dr...
, and Long Island, New York's WLIR
WLIR
WLIR-FM is a Christian radio station as part of the WLIX Voice of Hope Radio Network. WLIR-FM broadcasts in the Hamptons-Riverhead area. Its transmitter is currently located near East Quogue, New York....
, plus frequent MTV exposure.
Towards the end of 1983, the band (under their BEF guise and assisted by Greg Walsh) helped relaunch Tina Turner
Tina Turner
Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
's career, producing and providing backing vocals on her hit "Let's Stay Together
Let's Stay Together (song)
"Let's Stay Together" is a song by Al Green on his 1972 album of the same name. Released as a single in 1971, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks and also topped Billboards R&B chart for nine weeks. It was ranked the 60th greatest song of all time...
", a cover of the Al Green
Al Green
Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
song. 1984 saw the release of the third Heaven 17 album, How Men Are
How Men Are
How Men Are is the third album by the English synthpop group Heaven 17, released in September 1984 by Virgin Records. The album peaked at no.12 in the UK and was certified Silver by the BPI in October 1984....
, which reached Number 12 in the UK chart and was certified silver by the BPI. The album featured the Earth, Wind and Fire brass section, and two singles from the album ("Sunset Now
Sunset Now
"Sunset Now" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's first single of 1984 from the album How Men Are. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1984 and peaked at #24 in the UK, spending 6 weeks on the chart...
" and "This Is Mine
This Is Mine
"This Is Mine" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's second and last single of 1984 from the album How Men Are. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1984 and peaked at #23 in the UK, spending 7 weeks on the chart...
") both reached the UK Top 40, but would be the band's last singles to do so until various remixes were released in the 1990s.
The band also worked on the Band Aid
Band Aid (band)
Band Aid was a charity supergroup featuring British and Irish musicians and recording artists. It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year. The single...
single at the end of 1984, with Gregory supplying vocals alongside Midge Ure
Midge Ure
James "Midge" Ure, OBE is a Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter...
and Sting, after a personal request from Ure that he attend. However, they did not perform at Live Aid
Live Aid
Live Aid was a dual-venue concert that was held on 13 July 1985. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom ...
the following year. Heaven 17's first "live" performance was in 1986 on the UK television programme The Tube
The Tube
The Tube may refer to:*The London Underground* "The Tube", slang for Television, from the term cathode ray tube*The Tube , an ITV/Sky programme featuring the work of staff on the London Underground...
(though the band made use of backing tapes during this performance).
After the remix album Endless peaked at Number 70 in July 1986, the band's fourth studio album Pleasure One
Pleasure One
Pleasure One is the fourth album by the British synthpop group Heaven 17, released in 1986 by Virgin Records.-Track listing:All tracks written by Gregory/Marsh/Ware.#"Contenders" – 5:24#"Trouble" – 4:14#"Somebody" – 4:30#"If I Were You" – 3:34...
was released in November 1986 and featured the single "Trouble
Trouble (Heaven 17 song)
"Trouble" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's only single of 1987 from the 1986 album Pleasure One. It was written by all three members. The single was released in early 1987 and peaked at #51 in the UK, spending 4 weeks on the chart...
" (UK Number 51, Germany Number 17). The album contained a number of songs that were originally intended for a French film project that never came to be. This was also the first Heaven 17 album to not mention production credits for BEF and the abbreviation would not appear again until Bigger Than America in 1996. It was followed up in 1988 with the album Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho
Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho
Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho is the fifth album by the English synthpop group Heaven 17, released in 1988 by Virgin Records.-Track listing:All tracks written by Gregory/Marsh/Ware.#"Big Square People" – 4:29#"Don't Stop For No One" – 3:50...
(featuring the singles "Train of Love in Motion" and "The Ballad of Go Go Brown
The Ballad of Go Go Brown
"The Ballad of Go Go Brown" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's first single of 1988 from the album Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1988 and peaked at #91 in the UK, spending 2 weeks on the chart...
"), although these two albums were poorly received and had little commercial success. In September 1988, the band appeared on the bill at the Sport Aid
Sport Aid
Sport Aid was a charitable event held on May 25 1986, raising $37m to support famine relief in Africa, and is the sporting event with the most participants in history....
event in Sheffield.
1990s
The early 1990s was a quiet period for the band, though Ware produced a second BEF album in 1991, to follow 1982's original Music of Quality & Distinction (again featuring Tina TurnerTina Turner
Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
and Billy Mackenzie
Billy Mackenzie
William MacArthur "Billy" Mackenzie was a Scottish singer, with a distinctive falsetto voice best known as a member of The Associates.- Biography :...
, but this time also featuring artists such as Scritti Politti
Scritti Politti
Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Although there have been various changes to the line-up, Cardiff-born singer-songwriter Green Gartside was the founding member of the band and the only member to have remained throughout the group's...
's Green Gartside
Green Gartside
Green Gartside , is a British musician, and the frontman of the band Scritti Politti....
, Lalah Hathaway
Lalah Hathaway
Eulaulah Donyll Hathaway best known as Lalah Hathaway referred to as the First Daughter of Soul, is a contemporary R&B and jazz singer. She is the daughter of soul singer Donny Hathaway and a classically trained vocalist. In 1990, Lalah Hathaway released a self-titled album. The album's first...
, Billy Preston
Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...
, and Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...
). Ware also became a producer for the likes of Terence Trent D'Arby, Marc Almond
Marc Almond
Marc Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell...
and Erasure. Gregory, meanwhile, went on to form the band Ugly.
In late 1992, a remix of "Temptation" reached Number 4 and was followed by the compilation album Higher and Higher – The Best of Heaven 17 in 1993. Remixes of "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
" Fascist Groove Thang" is a song written and performed by British synthpop band Heaven 17. It was a minor hit in the UK in 1981, despite being banned by the BBC...
" and "Penthouse and Pavement" were also minor hits in 1993. However, the band would not release any new material as Heaven 17 until 1996's Bigger Than America album, though this failed to chart.
2000s
2005 saw the release of a new album, Before AfterBefore After
Before After is a studio album by Heaven 17, released in 2005. It reached #6 on the Billboard Magazine Club Play Chart in April 2006. In September 2008 "Don't Fear the Reaper" was featured on HBO's TrueBlood series...
, which had a much more contemporary dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
sound compared to previous albums. A CD of remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
es of "Hands Up to Heaven" from the album reached number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
chart in May 2006. In October the same year Virgin Records
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
issued a greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
entitled Sight and Sound, which included a previously-unheard version of "Temptation" with spoken vocals by an unknown student from Germany whom the band met in 1982. It had been discovered on 1-inch tape by Gregory's mother and was remastered by Simon Heyworth. In November 2005, Heaven 17 were filmed for a live DVD playing to a packed house at The Scala
Scala Theatre
The Scala Theatre was a theatre in London, sited on Charlotte Street, off Tottenham Court Road, in the London Borough of Camden. The first theatre on the site opened in 1772, and the theatre was demolished in 1969, after being destroyed by fire...
in London. The DVD contains an in-depth question-and-answer session with both Ware and Gregory, and fans' reactions to the gig.
In 2006, Marsh stopped making live appearances with the band. In an early 2009 interview, Ware stated that Marsh had left the band and was now studying at university. Since the mid 1990s, Billie Godfrey
Billie Godfrey
Billie Godfrey is an English singer. She is the current principal female vocalist of the veteran British synthpop group, Heaven 17.-Background:...
has worked with the band as a backing vocalist and appears with them at concerts. She appeared with them as part of the band on 21 November 2008 for their highest profile TV appearance of recent years on Now That's What I Call 1983 on ITV1
ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...
. In December 2008, Heaven 17 toured the UK as part of the Sheffield band based Steel City Tour alongside The Human League and ABC
ABC (band)
ABC are an English band, that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. The band continues to tour and released a new album, Traffic, in 2008.-Formation:...
. Coinciding with this was the release of their new album, Naked as Advertised – Versions 08
Naked as Advertised
Naked as Advertised is the eighth full-length studio album released by the British Synthpop group Heaven 17, released in 2008. It is a new nine track album containing new versions of some of their biggest hits as well covers and two reworkings of early Human League songs...
, issued through the Just Music record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
. The album contained re-workings of tracks such as "Temptation" along with versions of Ware songs best known from his time with the Human League, including "Being Boiled
Being Boiled
"Being Boiled" is a song composed by Sheffield musicians Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, with lyrics by Philip Oakey, and recorded by them as The Human League...
" and "Empire State Human
Empire State Human
"Empire State Human" is a song by the British Synthesizer group The Human League. The song was written by Philip Oakey, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh...
", as well as a cover
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of the Associates' hit "Party Fears Two".
In December 2009, Heaven 17 made appearances at the "Nokia Night of the Proms
Night of the Proms
Night of the Proms is a series of concerts held yearly in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Poland. Regularly there are also shows in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg...
" in Germany.
2010s
On 16 February 2010, Heaven 17 joined La RouxLa Roux
La Roux are an English electropop duo made up of singer, keyboardist, co-writer and co-producer Eleanor Kate Jackson, and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their relationship as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also...
to record a joint live session for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
which was shown on the BBC Red Button interactive channel in January 2010 while Glenn Gregory joined La Roux on stage at Glastonbury on 26 June 2010, performing "Temptation
Temptation (Heaven 17 song)
"Temptation" is a single by Sheffield band Heaven 17, originally released in April 1983, peaking at number 2 in the UK charts. This was the second single to be taken from their second album The Luxury Gap, after November 1982's "Let Me Go"....
". (La Roux cite Heaven 17 as one of their main influences). The two acts also appeared live on stage at the War Child
War Child
War Child or Warchild may refer to:* Child soldiers, children who are used in war, as soldiers or in combat support* Military brat, military slang for a child or teenager of a military family* Refugee, children who are refugees of war...
Brit Awards
Brit Awards
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain" or "Britannia", but subsequently became a backronym for British Record Industry Trust...
aftershow in February 2010.
In the run up to their 30th anniversary, the band announced several live dates in which they would perform their 1981 debut album Penthouse and Pavement
Penthouse and Pavement
-2010 3-disc Special Edition:Disc 1:#" Fascist Groove Thang"#"Penthouse And Pavement"#"Play To Win"#"Soul Warfare"#"Geisha Boys And Temple Girls"#"Let's All Make A Bomb"#"The Height Of The Fighting"#"Song With No Name"...
live in its entirety for the first time. The dates were scheduled over November and December 2010 with the first date held on 10 November 2010 at the well known Leadmill
Leadmill
The Leadmill is a live music venue and nightclub on Leadmill Road, Sheffield, England lying on the south-east edge of the city centre. It opened in 1980, in what despite its name was a former flour mill...
venue in Sheffield. By chance the Leadmill also celebrated a 30 year anniversary in 2010. By their own admission this Leadmill gig was one of the band's most successful. The band performed a couple of dates of the Penthouse and Pavement tour in March 2010, one of which was in Sheffield and was filmed and shown on BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
on 16 May 2010. An hour-long documentary about the making of the album was shown on BBC Two the following night. This film was also screened at a special "Music in Sheffield" evening of films at the Showroom
Showroom
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in Sheffield, at which Martyn Ware attended, on the eve of the announcement of the City of Culture 2013. Sheffield were unsuccessful losing out to Derry.
The band appeared on on Later... with Jools Holland on 22 October 2010, performing "Fascist Groove Thang" and "Temptation" and appeared in BBC Children in Need in November 2010. They also made a tongue-in-cheek appearance in TV advertisements for Sheffield-based broadband provider, Plusnet
Plusnet
Plusnet is an Internet Service Provider based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Plusnet was floated on the Alternative Investment Market in July 2004, making them a Public limited company . It has been owned since 30 January 2007 by BT Group, but operates as a separate business...
. On 22 November the band released a 2 disc DVD combining never-seen-before documentary and rehearsal footage with the band's full live concert filmed in Sheffield in March 2010. Also included was a unique collection of all the digital videos used in the live show, set to the accompanying live audio from the performance. Each video was commissioned by a different visual artist and included both established up-and-coming artists from the worlds of digital and graphic design, fine art and film.
Studio albums
| Year | Album | Chart positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
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| UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
GER Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
NLD MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
FR Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... |
SWE Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
NZL Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
USA Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| 1981 | Penthouse and Pavement Penthouse and Pavement -2010 3-disc Special Edition:Disc 1:#" Fascist Groove Thang"#"Penthouse And Pavement"#"Play To Win"#"Soul Warfare"#"Geisha Boys And Temple Girls"#"Let's All Make A Bomb"#"The Height Of The Fighting"#"Song With No Name"... |
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| 1983 | The Luxury Gap The Luxury Gap The Luxury Gap is the second album by the English synthpop band Heaven 17. Released in 1983, it is the band's biggest selling album, peaking at number 4 in the UK charts and was certified Platinum by the BPI in 1984.... |
4 | 7 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 72 |
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| 1984 | How Men Are How Men Are How Men Are is the third album by the English synthpop group Heaven 17, released in September 1984 by Virgin Records. The album peaked at no.12 in the UK and was certified Silver by the BPI in October 1984.... |
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| 1986 | Pleasure One Pleasure One Pleasure One is the fourth album by the British synthpop group Heaven 17, released in 1986 by Virgin Records.-Track listing:All tracks written by Gregory/Marsh/Ware.#"Contenders" – 5:24#"Trouble" – 4:14#"Somebody" – 4:30#"If I Were You" – 3:34... |
78 | — | — | — | — | — | 177 | |
| 1988 | Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho is the fifth album by the English synthpop group Heaven 17, released in 1988 by Virgin Records.-Track listing:All tracks written by Gregory/Marsh/Ware.#"Big Square People" – 4:29#"Don't Stop For No One" – 3:50... |
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| 1996 | Bigger Than America | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2005 | Before After Before After Before After is a studio album by Heaven 17, released in 2005. It reached #6 on the Billboard Magazine Club Play Chart in April 2006. In September 2008 "Don't Fear the Reaper" was featured on HBO's TrueBlood series... |
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| 2008 | Naked as Advertised Naked as Advertised Naked as Advertised is the eighth full-length studio album released by the British Synthpop group Heaven 17, released in 2008. It is a new nine track album containing new versions of some of their biggest hits as well covers and two reworkings of early Human League songs... |
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Compilation albums
| Year | Album | Chart positions | |
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| UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
USA Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| 1982 | Heaven 17 | — | 68 |
| 1986 | Endless | 70 | — |
| 1992 | The Best of Heaven 17 | — | — |
| 1993 | Higher and Higher – The Best of Heaven 17 | 31 | — |
| 1995 | The Remix Collection | — | — |
| 1998 | Retox/Detox | — | — |
| 2006 | Greatest Hits | — | — |
| 2011 | So80s Presents Heaven 17 | — | — |
Singles
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| UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
IRE Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured... |
GER Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
NLD MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
IT Federation of the Italian Music Industry The Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.... |
NZL Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
CAN Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
USA Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| 1981 | "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang " Fascist Groove Thang" is a song written and performed by British synthpop band Heaven 17. It was a minor hit in the UK in 1981, despite being banned by the BBC... " |
45 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Penthouse and Pavement |
| "I'm Your Money" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Play to Win" | 46 | — | — | — | — | 39 | — | — | ||
| "Penthouse and Pavement" | 57 | — | — | — | — | 37 | — | — | ||
| "The Height of the Fighting" | — | — | — | — | — | 20 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | "Let Me Go!" | 41 | 26 | — | — | — | — | 41 | 74 | The Luxury Gap |
| "Who'll Stop the Rain" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1983 | "Temptation Temptation (Heaven 17 song) "Temptation" is a single by Sheffield band Heaven 17, originally released in April 1983, peaking at number 2 in the UK charts. This was the second single to be taken from their second album The Luxury Gap, after November 1982's "Let Me Go".... " |
2 | 3 | 11 | 25 | 45 | 15 | — | — | |
| "We Live So Fast" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Come Live with Me Come Live with Me (Heaven 17 song) "Come Live With Me" is a single from synthpop trio Heaven 17 which appeared on the album The Luxury Gap. It was written by all three members. The single was released in mid-1983 and peaked at #5 in the UK, spending 11 weeks on the chart... " |
5 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry Crushed by the Wheels of Industry "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry" is the last single of 1983 from synthpop trio Heaven 17 which appeared on the album The Luxury Gap. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1983 and peaked at #17 in the UK, spending 7 weeks on the chart... " |
17 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1984 | "Sunset Now Sunset Now "Sunset Now" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's first single of 1984 from the album How Men Are. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1984 and peaked at #24 in the UK, spending 6 weeks on the chart... " |
24 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | How Men Are |
| "This Is Mine This Is Mine "This Is Mine" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's second and last single of 1984 from the album How Men Are. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1984 and peaked at #23 in the UK, spending 7 weeks on the chart... " |
23 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985 | "...(And That's No Lie) ...(And That's No Lie) "..." is synthpop trio Heaven 17's first and only single of 1985 from the album How Men Are. It was written by all three members. The single was released early 1984 and peaked at #52 in the UK, spending 5 weeks on the chart. This was the band's first single to miss the top 50 since 1983... " |
52 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1986 | "The Foolish Thing to Do The Foolish Thing to Do "The Foolish Thing To Do" is "The Foolish Thing To Do" is a single from Heaven 17 which featured Jimmy Ruffin. The track was written by all three members along with Nick Plytas. The track did not feature on any album. The b-side titled "My Sensitivity was originally performed and written by Luther... " (feat. Jimmy Ruffin Jimmy Ruffin Jimmy Ruffin is an American soul singer, and elder brother of the late David Ruffin of The Temptations. He had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted."-Life:... ) |
80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | single only |
| "Contenders Contenders (song) "Contenders" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's last single of 1986 from the album Pleasure One which was released the same year. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1986 and peaked at #80 in the UK, spending 4 weeks on the chart... " |
80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Pleasure One | |
| 1987 | "Trouble Trouble (Heaven 17 song) "Trouble" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's only single of 1987 from the 1986 album Pleasure One. It was written by all three members. The single was released in early 1987 and peaked at #51 in the UK, spending 4 weeks on the chart... " |
51 | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1988 | "The Ballad of Go Go Brown The Ballad of Go Go Brown "The Ballad of Go Go Brown" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's first single of 1988 from the album Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho. It was written by all three members. The single was released in late 1988 and peaked at #91 in the UK, spending 2 weeks on the chart... " |
91 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho |
| "Train of Love in Motion" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1992 | "Temptation" (Brothers in Rhythm Brothers in Rhythm Brothers In Rhythm is a house music duo consisting of producers / remixers and DJs Steve Anderson and Dave Seaman. As a duo and individually, they have remixed and/or produced tracks by Lulu, M People, Secret Life, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue, Garbage,... Remix) |
4 | 9 | 96 | 18 | — | — | — | — | Higher and Higher – The Best of Heaven 17 |
| 1993 | "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" (The Rapino Brothers Remixes) | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Penthouse and Pavement" (The Tommy D Remixes) | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1996 | "Designing Heaven Designing Heaven "Designing Heaven" is synthpop trio Heaven 17's first single from the 1996 album Bigger Than America. It was written by all three members. The single was released and peaked at #128 in the UK although it didn't peak in the top 100... " |
128 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bigger Than America |
| 1997 | "We Blame Love" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2006 | "Hands Up to Heaven" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Before After |
| 2007 | "I'm Gonna Make You Fall in Love with Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2008 | "Don't Fear the Reaper" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
External links
- Heaven 17 Official website
- Heaven 17 at YouTube
- Heaven 17 at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...