"(Keep Feeling) Fascination" | ||||
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Single by The Human League | ||||
from the album Fascination! | ||||
B-side | "Total Panic" | |||
Released | 11 April 1983 | |||
Format | 7", 12", 3" CD single (re-issue) | |||
Recorded | Genetic Studios, 1983 | |||
Genre | Post-disco, synthpop, new wave | |||
Length | 3:45 | |||
Label | Virgin, A&M | |||
Writer(s) | Jo Callis, Philip Oakey | |||
Producer(s) | Martin Rushent | |||
The Human League singles chronology | ||||
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"(Keep Feeling) Fascination" is a 1983 song by the British synthpop group The Human League. It was composed by Jo Callis and Philip Oakey, and produced by Martin Rushent (which would be the last song he produced for the band for seven years).
The song features vocals from four of the band members, including lead singer Philip Oakey, female co-vocalists Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall, and a rare vocal role from keyboardist and guitarist Jo Callis.
The single was designated 'Red' on the Human League’s short-lived, self-imposed labeling system of 'Blue' for pop songs and 'Red' for dance tracks.
The single was released in the UK on 11 April 1983 as a non-album single, and went to number 2 in the UK Singles Chart. It was incorporated into the band's EP Fascination!. Released in the US a month after the UK release, the single reached number 1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart (their first single to do so) and number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 that summer. The EP Fascination! contained two versions of "(Keep Feeling) Fascination"; the extended mix and an improvisation, both different from the single version. These were also the tracks featured on the 12" issue in the UK.
The 7" issue featured a new track on the B-side Total Panic.
The video for "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" was filmed in a semi-derelict area of Newham, London which was due for demolition and redevelopment as part of the widescale redevelopment of Docklands and East London which took place in the early 1980s. The central theme of the video was based on an orange dot on a map, which in turn is a real orange dot on the ground. The orange dot highlights a single house on the apex of a street where the band is playing the song in the front room, which is painted entirely grey. In one scene, a couple of boys are playing outside in the street during the song's break; one of them kicks the ball towards the orange building, the other runs to get the ball, and both the ball and the retriever's clothes turn orange. After he kicks the ball back, the ball returns to its previous colour.