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You'll Never Be Sixteen Again - 6. Pretty Vacant

You'll Never Be Sixteen Again John Peel covers the rise and fall of punk, disco and riots in the cities.

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07/10/2012

Duration:
2 hours
First broadcast:
Sunday 07 October 2012

As part of 6 Music's Sheffield Sunday celebrations, Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 controls the shows playlist using Twitter.
The band formed in the early 80s when he and Ian Craig Marsh left The Human League, and joined up with Glenn Gregory, who had been their original choice of vocalist for The Human League. The band enjoyed moderate success with their 1981 debut album Penthouse and Pavement, but it was the single Temptation in 1983 that brought them huge mainstream success. The album that followed, The Luxury Gap, made the top 4 in the UK. They released their 3rd album How Men Are in 1984, but this was their last to achieve any success of note. They released a further 5 albums up to 2008. In 2010 they played with La Roux on a BBC session that enjoyed considerable success. The following year they celebrated their 30th anniversary with a series of concerts.

Music Played

20 items
  • Image for Heaven 17

    Heaven 17 We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang

    Virgin

  • Image for Roxy Music

    Roxy Music Pyjamarama

    EG

  • Image for Everything Everything

    Everything Everything Cough Cough

    Rca Victor

  • Image for A Certain Ratio

    A Certain Ratio Shack Up

    Factory

  • Image for Cabaret Voltaire

    Cabaret Voltaire Nag Nag Nag

  • Image for Rose Royce

    Rose Royce First Come, First Serve

  • Image for Heaven 17

    Heaven 17 Let Me Go

    The Best Of, EMI, 3

  • Image for Kraftwerk

    Kraftwerk Tour De France

    CD SINGLE, EMI, 1

  • Image for LFO

    LFO LFO

    Warp

  • Image for Add N to (X)

    Add N to (X) King Wasp - BBC Session 21/11/1999

  • Image for The Comsat Angels

    The Comsat Angels INDEPENDENCE DAY

    Connoisseur Collection

  • Image for The Human League

    The Human League Being Boiled

    Virgin

  • Image for David Bowie

    David Bowie A New Career In A New Town

    Low, EMI, 7

  • Image for The Normal

    The Normal Warm Leatherette

    Mute

  • Image for Friendly Fires

    Friendly Fires Live Those Days Tonight

    Pala, XL, 1

  • Image for Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

    Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Scorpio

    Sugarhill

  • Image for David J. Roch

    David J. Roch Hour Of Need

  • Image for La Roux

    La Roux Bulletproof

    CD SINGLE, Polydor, 1

  • Image for Richard Hawley

    Richard Hawley Down In The Woods

    Down In The Woods, Parlophone, 1

  • Image for Pulp

    Pulp Common People

    Island

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