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BEF’s first recording was a cassette-only album called Music for Stowaways and an LP called Music for Listening To. Shortly after, they recruited their friend and photographer Glenn Gregory on vocals to complete their lineup for Heaven 17. Like The Human League, Heaven 17 heavily used synthesizers and drum machines, the Linn LM-1 programmed by Ware particularly contributing to their signature sound. Session musicians were used for Bass and Guitar (John Wilson) and Grand Piano (Nick Plytas). They had some minor hits including the early “Play To Win”, featured on the album Penthouse and Pavement. Their debut single “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” from the same album had attracted some attention, becoming a left-wing anthem for a while, and was banned by Mike Read, a Radio 1 DJ for the BBC, because of its overtly political lyrics, though it still reached #45 in the UK singles chart.

In the interim the band produced two further LPs as BEF. The first being Music of Quality & Distinction featuring Glenn Gregory, Paula Yates, Billy Mackenzie, Paul Jones, Bernadette Nolan and Gary Glitter. The tracks were cover versions of songs that Ware, Marsh & Gregory had grown up listening to. A second volume was issued in the early 1990s (simply titled Music of Quality & Distinction 2), this time featuring artists such as Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside, Terence Trent D’Arby, and Lalah Hathaway.

The second album was Geisha Boys and Temple Girls for the dance troupe Hot Gossip, which used songs formerly recorded by The Human League and Heaven 17 and a track each from Sting and Talking Heads. This has recently been re-released. This album was originally to have been produced by Richard Burgess of Landscape.

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