Illustration Ben Talon
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In the words of Neil Tennant, I was faced with a choice at a difficult age… In my case it was a decision about whether to decorate my newly crafted pencil case with the logo of either The Beatles or The Human League. This being late 1981 and the rather sorry looking box being the only thing I would ever make in woodwork, the dilemma seemed truly significant. Sheffields finest won that battle and it might have ended there… except The Human League were soon followed by ABC, Heaven 17, Def Leppard, Pulp, Richard Hawley and Arctic Monkeys.