Phil was absolutely GORGEOUS when he was younger like this; I had such a massive crush on him lol; went to see the League on the "Dare" tour in 1981, was so amazing; actually met them too backstage, so funny they were, totally down to earth and "normal" and the girls looked like girls who worked on the perfume counter in Boots chemist on Saturdays haha. Totally approachable and accessible, lovely they were, so ordinary!!!
Not taking anything away from him - I really enjoy early Human League but thats a stretch...Your homework... u might want to look into the likes of Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Lennon/McCartney, Ulvaeus/Andersson, The Bee Gees, Elton John/Taupin, Burt Bacharach, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell. In terms of song writing they are leaps and bounds ahead even if their songs are not your thing and musicianship....they could not even play when they did some of my favourite stuff (ie Empire State Human) - the average session musician or cruise ship horn player has more music skill and knowledge and by a large margin.... again not taking anything away you dont have to be a great musician to be an awesome act... Vince Clarke (hero of mine) could write some great tunes but was never much good as a keyboardist for instance...
Philip Oakey was gorgeous in this video clip.I have been in love with him in many years.I have been a fan of The Human League 1995-1998 and 2012-present.
Phil Oakey..Love that bloke..well answered questions too..Human League..legends! Interviewees dull. Electric Dremas is such a magical song too..I misss the Human Laegue and what happened to the girl with the blonde swoop?
What a fantasic video. Phil trying not to utter his distain for new music sampling technology while visibly showing his utter distain in his body language!
as an Australian, this clip has made me laugh on the floor in fits. i CANNOT believe theyre having TEA while PHIL OAKEY, one of the most avant-garde ppl i can remember, is on. crazy
Jesus Christ - poor Phil. Remains charismatic even in a studio filled with a few windbags. he oozes charisma. Drinking cups of tea in the background - that shit is hilarious
0:49 Well I do agree with Phillip in a way. But I have to say that back in the Punk era, there were a lot of bands that had barely any musical experience that made some great music. Oh and 2:00 is my favorite part, lol
I've never heard of Angela (big suprise, I'm American! LOL) but I actually like her! She seems a very bubbly, very cool woman. I like her interviewing style. The mix of her and Phil and how he was responding to what she was saying to the camera was pretty interesting and funny. LOL
No Emulator(to my knowledge) on the Blade Runner soundtrack. The main instrument used was the Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer. You'll also hear Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus' strings and choir sounds.
LOL his expression after the interviewer said "take it you wouldnt dream of taking a machine like this on stage with you when you are doing a live performance" is priceless!!!!! I couldn't stop laughing.
There are still brekkie /news presenters around now who are as thick as Angela Rippon but I excuse her as very few people understood anything about synths/computers back then. Phil Oakey as ever is being a really nice guy in spite of these fools on this weird show.
God Were People Really That UnOpen To New Things Phil Was Totally UnImpressed there! At Least The Middle Aged Emulator Guy Stepped In and Corrected Them. I Liked It When She Said 'So When You GO On a Live Show and you Don't Take One Of These On How Do You Cope' And Phils Body Language and What He Said In Reply 'We Do?!' Just Summed It Up. I Couldn't Believe How Closed Minded People Were!!!
you couldnt stage this any better , hahahahhaa its just so funny , poor Phil bet he just thought beam me up Scotty. Nice cup of tea , while Ray hammond has been playing with his incredable Emulator hhahaha thanks for the post
Hard to believe that was nearly 30 years ago and an Emulator cost then around £8K I recall... Which was peanuts compared to the cost of a Synclavier or Fairlight. Phil eroneously suggests that the Bladerunner soundtrack was entirely produced using an Emulator when in fact it was Vangelis using amongst predominantly, a Yamah CS80. But don't hold that against him, he talks a lot of sense.
That was Angela Rippon : the first ever female newsreader. Don't suppose she realised that she was in the presence of a future legend! How cringy when she referred to him as Phil Oakley. Two things wrong there : 1. He apparently prefers the full name of Philip and 2. There's no L in his surname!!!
Interesting when Phil Oakey criticizes ex-members Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh by saying "For 2 years.. we never really got anywhere." ...After the big fight between Oakey and his ex-bandmates, Ware and Marsh already left and formed Heaven 17.
In fairness, feelings were very raw between the two camps at that time. I doubt that Ian and Martyn were particularly flattering about Phil at the time either. It was a very wise move by Martin Rushent (producer of Dare) to get the Human League out of Sheffield for the recording sessions. Of course, any tension between the two bands is long forgotten, they were reconciled years ago.
very different times - a great big box like that would've seemed so silly compared to real instruments. You can't really blame them, it's new technology.
Angela Rippon comes across as ridiculously twee in this interview and sounds like someone's granny instead of the late 30s something that she actually was. Poor Philip Oakey having to be subjected to that, I bet he couldn't wait to get out of there.
I suspect Phil was talking about AFTER Ian and Martyn left, when the Human League was just him, Philip Adrian Wright plus Joanne and Susan. None of them were musicians, and it was only when Jo Callis and Ian Burden were brought in that the songs for Dare were written. It's those songs that are still being played today along with all material since that were written by the League mk2. One listen to 'Secrets' shows just how good they still are at writing great pop songs :-)
Its as if he and Robert Smith were brothers. They look similar, the Human League music could sound similar to The Cure's sometimes and they both wore makeup, lol.
Probably stripped by Dm as well , did you know the art of noise famous drum on beatbox came from rusty egan smashing doors at trident studios , they were used on visage beatboy when the album was ready in 83 but released a year later
Phil looks like he's thinking "Why am I here?!" And no, ecoplastico, he's not gay; any bio about the League will tell you he dated both the girls (not at the same time, obviously). He's just a staight guy who looked good in makeup!
Just to clarify : Angela Rippon is still on tv today, co-hosting a program called, 'rip-off Britain' : she was actually the first female national newsreader in the UK. I don't think she is actually as pompous as she appeared in this video! ;0)
same principles just different media... USB2.0 sticks, smart media... etc... but yeah take your point... I was doing the same with my C64 cassette deck at the time ;-)
Why the fuck is everyone standing around drinking tea ? I feel for Phil its' like he has gone to an old peoples home and has been forced to here shit off pensioners who just waffle on a load of crap. If i was Phil i would have got up and said " Fuck this im going down the pub "
I do know I live in Birmingham, England have done all my life and been to Sheffield aswell which is where Phil Oakley lives to this day that's where The Human League came from. It is typical tacky English 80'S TV. Angela Ripon is a snobby arrogant cow she thinks she knows everything
a single great individual stylist [phil],surrounded by excellent examples of english national style [without which,england/english would be just a bunch of usa-american wannabes!]
Poor Phil; he deserves a medal in the category of "ability to control oneself from going postal in the presence of fools" lol. He definitely suffers fools badly haha. Such an insult to his intelligence; he could barely get a word in edgeways here with those posh nobs twittering away, although some of what the guy in the Christmas jumper with the beard said was true actually.
Angela Rippon is a pain in the arse in this! It felt like she was trying to belittle Phil, you can see he wasn't happy to be there by his body language. Poor bloke was surrounded by ignorance.
If the snotty interviewer is still alive today, I wonder what she thinks about pop music 30 years later. Lol. And I liked what the guy with beard was saying about people who aren't technical musicians per se but are musically-inclined. There are so many talented people like that out there that make great music (i.e. Kanye West). Why shouldn't they be allowed to share their talent with the world? But then again, this was 1983 when the synthesizer just started shaking up the pop landscape.
By the 80 s synths were mainstream , samplers were started to creep in , the first records i was aware of that used them were earlier than 1983 , the korgis everybody learns sometimes for instance used the cmi koto sample , the band ebn ozn ( who worked as programmers for scritti politti) were the first to my knowledge to produce a popsingle solely based on samples in 83.
My Goodness, Phil was very handsome... I love his eyes!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
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Phil was absolutely GORGEOUS when he was younger like this; I had such a massive crush on him lol; went to see the League on the "Dare" tour in 1981, was so amazing; actually met them too backstage, so funny they were, totally down to earth and "normal" and the girls looked like girls who worked on the perfume counter in Boots chemist on Saturdays haha. Totally approachable and accessible, lovely they were, so ordinary!!!
I know Phil and he is a legend
Mr Phil Oakey is one of the most talented singer/songwriter/musician whom I have ever researched about.
Not taking anything away from him - I really enjoy early Human League but thats a stretch...Your homework... u might want to look into the likes of Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Lennon/McCartney, Ulvaeus/Andersson, The Bee Gees, Elton John/Taupin, Burt Bacharach, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell. In terms of song writing they are leaps and bounds ahead even if their songs are not your thing and musicianship....they could not even play when they did some of my favourite stuff (ie Empire State Human) - the average session musician or cruise ship horn player has more music skill and knowledge and by a large margin.... again not taking anything away you dont have to be a great musician to be an awesome act... Vince Clarke (hero of mine) could write some great tunes but was never much good as a keyboardist for instance...
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Philip Oakey was gorgeous in this video clip.I have been in love with him in many years.I have been a fan of The Human League 1995-1998 and 2012-present.
There is a beautiful man! Still is!
Phil Oakey - a legend!!!
he’s so pretty 🥺
Well done for dealing with these clueless idiots in such a gentlemanly manner Mr Oakey . x
Phil is completely brilliant in interviews.
Philip Oakey was gorgeous in this interview.
Philip Oakey is the king of cool.
Very handsome Philip Oakey 😍😍😍😍😍
Phil Oakey,as bloody gorgeous as always!
Phil, i love you for ever, you still got fans! Greetz from the netherlands :)
Wow... Philip Oakey must be a truly nice guy (which I've never heard otherwise, actually).
Phil Oakey..Love that bloke..well answered questions too..Human League..legends! Interviewees dull. Electric Dremas is such a magical song too..I misss the Human Laegue and what happened to the girl with the blonde swoop?
I like Philip Oakey very much.
I was thinking the same thing. Good stuff! Poor Phil though - wonder how many interviews like that he had to suffer through.
Phil's earrings are 😍
I like The Human League. I like the singers dark clothes in this interview. I like his voice.
Phil oakey is handsome!
What a fantasic video. Phil trying not to utter his distain for new music sampling technology while visibly showing his utter distain in his body language!
as an Australian, this clip has made me laugh on the floor in fits. i CANNOT believe theyre having TEA while PHIL OAKEY, one of the most avant-garde ppl i can remember, is on. crazy
What an incredible teapot!
Jesus Christ - poor Phil. Remains charismatic even in a studio filled with a few windbags. he oozes charisma.
Drinking cups of tea in the background - that shit is hilarious
Angela asked good questions too.
Phil survived a serious patronisation there, didnt he just?
0:49
Well I do agree with Phillip in a way. But I have to say that back in the Punk era, there were a lot of bands that had barely any musical experience that made some great music.
Oh and 2:00 is my favorite part, lol
LMAO he was so pretty! xD Gotta love 80's androgyny...
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2:00 Phil was like "WHAT??? sms"
I've never heard of Angela (big suprise, I'm American! LOL) but I actually like her! She seems a very bubbly, very cool woman. I like her interviewing style. The mix of her and Phil and how he was responding to what she was saying to the camera was pretty interesting and funny. LOL
This is awesome!
2:00 "...We Do"
Thats how true rock and roll is made.
Phil looks like hes in the Twilight Zone!! lol
She sounds like she's just come from 1901.
No Emulator(to my knowledge) on the Blade Runner soundtrack. The main instrument used was the Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer. You'll also hear Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus' strings and choir sounds.
Well, there was no internet back then. Today you could double check facts on Wikipedia or forums.
LOL his expression after the interviewer said "take it you wouldnt dream of taking a machine like this on stage with you when you are doing a live performance" is priceless!!!!!
I couldn't stop laughing.
LOL...floppy disk looks so old huh? WOW!
This reminds me of trying to explain the internet to my mother. She thinks online shops close.
There are still brekkie /news presenters around now who are as thick as Angela Rippon but I excuse her as very few people understood anything about synths/computers back then. Phil Oakey as ever is being a really nice guy in spite of these fools on this weird show.
agree. i liked the interview and the 5.25" floppy used with the emulator
Dig Phil's obvious body language---he can't get Far Enough away from these dinosaurs!! (Arms crossed, leg crossed Away from the dinosaurs!)
Phil is so fucking awesome.
Ahhh gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous :)
That had to be like experiencing the third circle of Dante's inferno for Phil, maybe worse.
God Were People Really That UnOpen To New Things Phil Was Totally UnImpressed there! At Least The Middle Aged Emulator Guy Stepped In and Corrected Them. I Liked It When She Said 'So When You GO On a Live Show and you Don't Take One Of These On How Do You Cope' And Phils Body Language and What He Said In Reply 'We Do?!' Just Summed It Up. I Couldn't Believe How Closed Minded People Were!!!
you couldnt stage this any better , hahahahhaa its just so funny , poor Phil bet he just thought beam me up Scotty. Nice cup of tea , while Ray hammond has been playing with his incredable Emulator hhahaha thanks for the post
Seriously what a silly woman - but fair play to Phil he didn't care for it.
Hard to believe that was nearly 30 years ago and an Emulator cost then around £8K I recall... Which was peanuts compared to the cost of a Synclavier or Fairlight. Phil eroneously suggests that the Bladerunner soundtrack was entirely produced using an Emulator when in fact it was Vangelis using amongst predominantly, a Yamah CS80. But don't hold that against him, he talks a lot of sense.
That was Angela Rippon : the first ever female newsreader. Don't suppose she realised that she was in the presence of a future legend! How cringy when she referred to him as Phil Oakley. Two things wrong there : 1. He apparently prefers the full name of Philip and 2. There's no L in his surname!!!
Interesting when Phil Oakey criticizes ex-members Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh by saying "For 2 years.. we never really got anywhere." ...After the big fight between Oakey and his ex-bandmates, Ware and Marsh already left and formed Heaven 17.
In fairness, feelings were very raw between the two camps at that time. I doubt that Ian and Martyn were particularly flattering about Phil at the time either. It was a very wise move by Martin Rushent (producer of Dare) to get the Human League out of Sheffield for the recording sessions. Of course, any tension between the two bands is long forgotten, they were reconciled years ago.
very different times - a great big box like that would've seemed so silly compared to real instruments. You can't really blame them, it's new technology.
so cool!
Angela Rippon comes across as ridiculously twee in this interview and sounds like someone's granny instead of the late 30s something that she actually was. Poor Philip Oakey having to be subjected to that, I bet he couldn't wait to get out of there.
lol this is great and how cool is phil
the best bit is this bit 06;20 it makes phil smile .
I suspect Phil was talking about AFTER Ian and Martyn left, when the Human League was just him, Philip Adrian Wright plus Joanne and Susan. None of them were musicians, and it was only when Jo Callis and Ian Burden were brought in that the songs for Dare were written. It's those songs that are still being played today along with all material since that were written by the League mk2. One listen to 'Secrets' shows just how good they still are at writing great pop songs :-)
They didnt leave they were thrown out of the band that is the real story , virgin wanted 2 bands for the price of one
Its as if he and Robert Smith were brothers. They look similar, the Human League music could sound similar to The Cure's sometimes and they both wore makeup, lol.
That motorcycle sound reminds me of the beginning of Visage's Pleasure Boys
Probably stripped by Dm as well , did you know the art of noise famous drum on beatbox came from rusty egan smashing doors at trident studios , they were used on visage beatboy when the album was ready in 83 but released a year later
hell yeah!!! phil DA MAN!!!
i bet he felt like hed walked into an old folks home lol
Amazing @4:12 a real live floppy disk lol
Phil looks like he's thinking "Why am I here?!" And no, ecoplastico, he's not gay; any bio about the League will tell you he dated both the girls (not at the same time, obviously). He's just a staight guy who looked good in makeup!
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ha ha ha...the tea is classic. awesome.
Just to clarify : Angela Rippon is still on tv today, co-hosting a program called, 'rip-off Britain' : she was actually the first female national newsreader in the UK. I don't think she is actually as pompous as she appeared in this video! ;0)
Indeed! He is still sexy and has that sexy deep voice. :)
Its like an interview with thunderbird characters
The guy talking about the computer on the right looks like Dennis Ritchie (a computer pioneer). His name is not mentioned in the excerpt of the show.
Guillaume Alain The guy is Ray Hammond
Richard Dreyfuss
Angela Rippon was only 38 or 39 there!!!! Seems far older!
same principles just different media... USB2.0 sticks, smart media... etc... but yeah take your point... I was doing the same with my C64 cassette deck at the time ;-)
cool keyboard,emulators used big time by depeche mode,this particular model by martin gore.
Yes She Did!! He Must have left the studio feeling very annoyed and patronised!
This is like a Little Britain skit! I keep waiting for that woman to throw up all over the drum machine. lol
Why the fuck is everyone standing around drinking tea ? I feel for Phil its' like he has gone to an old peoples home and has been forced to here shit off pensioners who just waffle on a load of crap. If i was Phil i would have got up and said " Fuck this im going down the pub "
+Mark Chancellor lol!
I feel the same way. How the hell did he end up on a show with some old, passive aggressive bat?
he is in ENGLAND , tea is their tradition
I do know I live in Birmingham, England have done all my life and been to Sheffield aswell which is where Phil Oakley lives to this day that's where The Human League came from.
It is typical tacky English 80'S TV. Angela Ripon is a snobby arrogant cow she thinks she knows everything
what if they had put some whiskey in the tea?
my accent??im from Liverpool bud:) you like the scouse accent mate? or the British accent? is that what you mean? thanks, I think haha xxx
a single great individual stylist [phil],surrounded by excellent examples of english national style [without which,england/english would be just a bunch of usa-american wannabes!]
@danw1374 Yeah probably, he looked so out of place and wasn't sure how to answer them. It made me laugh :)
no se como se pudo sentir phil al estar en una entrevista con unos viejos xD que anticuado
this haircut was way better than the year before , where he had really long hair on one side!
DISagree strongly.
@@Lola-AreaCode212 he looked like a girl with that long hair
why r old people talk show hosts???????????
@prlad85 last time i checked it didn't say he's gay, but now i read there (in the section "today") that he lives with his long term boyfriend ... o.O
This is almost the beginning of electronic music. Now we do this and much more just on a Celular Phone.
He had such nice hair.... :'/
@lebzryty I'm not sure why you're asking me that question but no, he isn't. He's living with his long term girlfriend in Sheffield as we speak.
Poor Phil, having to sit with a load of brainless chumps.
Rude that they didn't offer me tea as well.
the lip stick i can forgive...but those ear rings? ouch!
Poor Phil; he deserves a medal in the category of "ability to control oneself from going postal in the presence of fools" lol. He definitely suffers fools badly haha. Such an insult to his intelligence; he could barely get a word in edgeways here with those posh nobs twittering away, although some of what the guy in the Christmas jumper with the beard said was true actually.
Angela Rippon is a pain in the arse in this! It felt like she was trying to belittle Phil, you can see he wasn't happy to be there by his body language. Poor bloke was surrounded by ignorance.
The chap in the white, grey and red jumper on, seems a bit puffy
The old guy in the background sitting on the shelves and sipping tea looks really weird.
Oh it's 9:15 i,ve to go to work!!! LOL.. I'll be late!!
what an odd interview lol
lol in the end you hear a punchy digital drum machine und synthesizer sounds as the signation...
phils nicked all the make up!
Cheating. Anybody can press a button on a computer/emulator. I play synth music live on a keyboard.
If the snotty interviewer is still alive today, I wonder what she thinks about pop music 30 years later. Lol. And I liked what the guy with beard was saying about people who aren't technical musicians per se but are musically-inclined. There are so many talented people like that out there that make great music (i.e. Kanye West). Why shouldn't they be allowed to share their talent with the world? But then again, this was 1983 when the synthesizer just started shaking up the pop landscape.
By the 80 s synths were mainstream , samplers were started to creep in , the first records i was aware of that used them were earlier than 1983 , the korgis everybody learns sometimes for instance used the cmi koto sample , the band ebn ozn ( who worked as programmers for scritti politti) were the first to my knowledge to produce a popsingle solely based on samples in 83.
Poor Phil Oakey at the end :(. Bitch was mean, she didn't know her shit. Tea doesn't make you smarter or more musical experienced woman.