Heaven 17 - Music Videos

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Heave 17 - Latest Projects

2005 saw the release of a new album, Before After, which had a much more contemporary dance sound compared to previous albums. In 2006, Marsh stopped making live appearances with the band. It was declared that Marsh no longer wanted to be part of the band and would no longer be appearing with them at concerts. 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. In December 2009, Heaven 17 will be touring again with appearances at the "Nokia Night of the Proms" in Germany. On 16 February 2010, they joined La Roux live on stage at the War Child Brit Awards aftershow. On 2 March 2010, they performed their seminal album ‘Penthouse and Pavement’ live in its entirety for the first time, as well as various B.E.F. tracks at The Assembly Rooms, Leamington Spa.

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Heaven 17 - 1980s & 1990s Albums and Singles

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.

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. 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, GER Number 17). The album contained a number of songs that were originally intended for a French film project that never came to be. 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 Thing" and "Penthouse and Pavement" were also minor hits in 1993.

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Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement

Their debut single "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang", from their debut album Penthouse and Pavement, attracted some attention but due to its overtly left-wing political lyrics, was banned by BBC Radio DJ Mike Read (who is a staunch Conservative).The album itself proved to be a minor success that time and peaked at Number 14 on the UK album chart, and was later certified Gold by the BPI in 1982. Penthouse and Pavement is considered to be one of the first concept albums of the 1980s. This album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

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". American new wave audiences were most familiar with "Let Me Go", which received high rotation airplay on 'Alternative/New Wave' format radio stations

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Heaven 17 - British Electric Foundation (BEF)

After getting apart from their early group, The Human League, Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware 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. The band's former colleagues The Human League had gone on to major chart success in 1981, Heaven 17 struggled to make an impact.

In 1982, with Heaven 17 already established with Glenn Gregory as the lead vocalist, B.E.F. released an album entitled Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One on Virgin Records, which involved other artists covering classic songs. The production was mainly in the Heaven 17/ B.E.F. style. B.E.F are currently working on a project titled Dark, with Ware explaining the album would consist of "very dark versions of tunes that have to be of a certain type.

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Heaven 17 - Introduction

Heaven 17 are a British 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 output was in the 1980s, they have occasionally reformed to record and perform since then, playing their first ever live gigs in 1997.

Heaven 17 formed when Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware split from their earlier group, The Human League, and formed the production company British Electric Foundation (BEF). Heaven 17 heavily used synthesizers and drum machines.

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