Coverville 1552: The Human League Cover Story

Coverville: The Cover Music Show (AAC Edition)

Brian Ibbott

Coverville, Music, Cover

4.9 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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For lead vocalist Phil Oakey, who’s turning 70 today, a special cover story featuring Human League, as well as some solo & contribution work he’s done! (55 minutes)

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0:00.0	Coming up on episode number 1,552, time for a Phil Oakey cover story.
0:07.7	Phil Oakey turning 70 today, as a matter of fact, lead singer of the band The Human League and also a couple great solo songs.
0:16.1	You're going to hear covers of and by Human League today.
0:18.8	All this and more coming up right now on Coverville.
0:30.1	The times are tough now.
0:32.4	Just getting tougher.
0:34.5	Whole world is rough.
0:35.7	It's just getting rough. Cover's just getting a rougher.
0:37.5	Cover me.
0:40.2	Come on, baby, cover me.
0:45.4	Well, I'm looking for in a hoover.
0:48.3	Come on in and cover me.
0:58.7	Greetings from Coverville for a Thursday morning it is Thursday October 2nd 2025 my name is Brian Abbott and welcome to another cover story
1:02.7	edition of coverville today featuring the music of the human league by way of its
1:07.6	lead singer Phil Oakey who who led that band, basically through some peeling off of members originally,
1:17.1	a couple different stages of the band that we'll talk about a little bit later from a very, very,
1:23.2	a very post-punk new wave into a more mainstream new wave band.
1:31.5	Some members splitting off to form the band Heaven 17,
1:36.2	who I think we'll hear from later.
1:39.4	No, because I've played Heaven 17's covers of humanly before,
1:43.7	so I pulled from something new this time.
1:45.6	Well, good for me for doing that.
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