A new line-up for the Human League and a more commercial sound, led to the album Dare ( 1981 ), which produced a series of hit singles.

1981 became the band's most successful period and culminated in the release of the influential, triple platinum album Dare and the multi-million selling single " Don't You Want Me ".

By October 1981 the album was ready and entitled Dare.

Dare was released in October 1981 and reached No. 1 in the UK.

Albums such as Visage's Visage ( 1980 ), John Foxx's Metamatic ( 1980 ), Gary Numan's Telekon ( 1980 ), Ultravox's Vienna ( 1980 ), The Human League's Dare ( 1981 ) and Depeche Mode's Speak and Spell ( 1981 ), established a sound that influenced most mainstream pop and rock bands, until it began to fall from popularity in the mid-1980s.

Albums such as Visage's Visage ( 1980 ), John Foxx's Metamatic ( 1980 ), Gary Numan's Telekon ( 1980 ), Ultravox's Vienna ( 1980 ), The Human League's Dare ( 1981 ) and Depeche Mode's Speak and Spell ( 1981 ), established a sound that influenced most mainstream pop and rock bands, until it began to fall from popularity in the mid-1980s.

* Human League-was used since their 1981 album Dare and on many of their later albums

He had a successful career as a character actor in British film and television, with prominent parts in several well-known films, including Yangtse Incident ( 1957 ), 633 Squadron ( 1964 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ) ( in which he appeared alongside Richard Burton ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) ( again with Burton ), and The Sea Wolves ( 1981 ).

Some of his more notable roles as German characters were in The Heroes of Telemark ( 1965 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ), Operation Daybreak ( 1975 ) ( as SS officer Reinhard Heydrich ) and the match commentator in Escape to Victory ( 1981 ).

* Dare ( album ), a 1981 album by The Human League

Cable television also allowed for the debut of game shows such as Supermarket Sweep ( Lifetime ), Trivial Pursuit and Family Challenge ( Family Channel ), and Double Dare ( Nickelodeon ).

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

There were also annuals / yearbooks dedicated to 2000 AD characters such as Dan Dare ( 1978 – 1979, cover dated 1979 – 1980 ), Judge Dredd ( 1980 – 1994 ) and Rogue Trooper ( 1990 ).

* Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ), WWII adventure from the Alistair MacLean novel.

He did enjoy a final commercial blockbuster with Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare in 1968 but his last film of the decade, Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), was a commercial and critical disappointment.

* Montez was allegedly the inspiration for Jennifer Wilde's historical romance novel Dare To Love ( 1978 ), whose protagonist Elena Lopez is also a British woman passing herself off as Spanish who becomes an exotic dancer.

A remix album of Dare entitled Love and Dancing was released under the group name " The League Unlimited Orchestra " ( a tribute to Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra ), reaching No. 3 on the UK album chart.

Despite being well received by critics as their best album since Dare ( the music climate at the time seeing a new interest in electronic pop music with the electroclash movement ), the band's new record label, Papillon developed financial problems, and was closed by the parent company shortly after the album's release, leading to poor promotion and sales.

Eleanor married Ananias Dare ( born c. 1560 ), a London tiler and bricklayer, at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street, City of London.

* White, Robert W., A Witness For Eleanor Dare ( 1992 ), Lexikos, ISBN 0-938530-51-8

Schenker has been on the covers of many guitar magazines and has influenced many notable guitar players, including Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield ( Metallica ), Dave Mustaine ( Megadeth ), Adrian Smith ( Iron Maiden ), Randy Rhoads ( Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot ), Michael Amott ( Arch Enemy-Spiritual Beggars ), Chris Caffery ( Savatage ), Gus G ( Ozzy-Firewind ), Vinny Burns ( Dare, ex-Ten ), George Lynch ( Dokken-Lynch Mob ), Doug Aldrich ( Whitesnake-Dio ), Warren DeMartini ( Ratt ), Frank Hannon ( Tesla ), Slash ( Guns N ' Roses-Velvet Revolver ), Michael Wilton ( Queensrÿche ), Paul Gilbert ( Racer X-Mr. Big ), Roland Grapow ( Masterplan-ex-Helloween ), Aaron Aedy ( Paradise Lost ), Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson ( Testament ), Andy LaRocque ( King Diamond ), Gary Holt ( Exodus ), Erik Turner ( Warrant ), Arjen Lucassen ( Ayreon ), Andy DiGelsomina ( Lyraka ), Hans Ziller ( Bonfire ), Jim Matheos ( Fates Warning ), Michael Denner and Hank Shermann ( Mercyful Fate ), Tak Matsumoto ( B ' z-TMG ), Marty Friedman ( Megadeth-Cacophony ) among many others.

Pazuzu appears on the album cover of the Gorillaz compilation album D-Sides and as a statue in front of the band's former recording studio, as well as in the promo video for the band's song Dare, the promo video for the song Rockit, and the unmade promo video for Rhinestone eyes.

" As described in detail on the band's 2004 The Early Days documentary, the opening track of " Where Eagles Dare " famously displays McBrain's ability to use the single drum pedal very quickly, plus his rapid tom fills.

Dare has since been labelled as one of pop music's most influential albums.

The stones still have a few supporters, most notably Robert W. White, whose book A Witness For Eleanor Dare insists they were genuine and that criticism of them was false.

Dare had previously spent most of his free time playing tennis, but soon picked up basketball for the first time.

Like most CBS game shows at the time, champions could stay on Double Dare until they were defeated or reached the network-imposed winnings limit of $ 25, 000.

The Town of Duck is Dare County's northernmost community, and one of the most popular resort destinations on the east coast of the United States.

During her tenure as the Director of the Department of Puerto Rican Community Affairs in the United States, Velázquez initiated one of the most successful Latino empowerment programs in the nation ’ s history-" Atrevete " ( Dare to Go for It !).

It starred Phyllis Dare, one of the most popular pin-ups of the Edwardian era, and was written by Paul Alfred Rubens.

", " Dan Dare ", " Ant Wars ", " Harry Twenty on the High Rock ", " Fiends of the Eastern Front ", and a couple of early episodes of " Judge Dredd ", and became their specialist in future war stories, first with " The V. C. s ", and then his most enduring character, " Rogue Trooper ", which still features occasionally, written by other writers-although Finley-Day returned to the character for a one-off story in 2010.

His most popular compositions appear in the following Commodore 64 games: Combat Crazy, Cybernoid, Cybernoid II, Dan Dare 3, Eliminator, Hawkeye, Myth: History in the Making, Nighthunter, Robocop 3, Rubicon ( title music ), Supremacy

Although most were released under her own name, she was renamed Gay Ellis ( for sentimental numbers ) and Dot Dare or Patsy Young ( for her Helen Kane impersonations ).

"), which was a frequent parting gift for contestants on Nick's popular game show Double Dare, where slime was heavily used along with several variations such as ' gak ' or ' gooze ', and Mattel even sold Nickelodeon slime and gak in the 1990s.

Dare County is home to two popular lighthouses: The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and the Bodie Island Lighthouse.

The game is also very popular in India where it is referred to as STD ( Situation, Truth or Dare ).

One popular WWIV support site is owned by Frank Reid, who runs Eagle's Dare BBS near Washington, DC.

Belardinelli's work on the strip was not popular, and after a year he was switched to future sports series " Inferno ", the sequel to the popular " Harlem Heroes ", while former " Harlem Heroes " artist Dave Gibbons took over " Dan Dare ".

The new album featured songs such as " I Will Dare ", which featured Buck playing lead guitar, " Androgynous ", with Westerberg on piano, and " Unsatisfied ", where, according to writer Michael Azerrad, Westerberg " had hit upon a moving new way to declare that he can't get no satisfaction ".

* Gorillaz ' song " Dare " from their 2005 album Demon Days begins with a rapid, rising Shepard glissando.

Many of " Weird Al " Yankovic's original songs are pastiches: for example, " Dare to Be Stupid " is a Devo pastiche, and " Bob " from the album Poodle Hat is a pastiche of Bob Dylan.

Their second studio album, Demon Days, was released in 2005 and included the singles " Feel Good Inc .", " Dare ", " Dirty Harry " and " Kids With Guns "/" El Mañana ".

In a retrospective review of the album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, senior editor for Allmusic, gave " Dare " a 5-star rating.

" Philip Oakey often plays down claims of " Dare " being such an influential album, but at other times acknowledges its influence on modern music.

The following months proved to be difficult ones for the band as they struggled to record a follow-up album to Dare under immense pressure from Virgin.

In 1984, The Replacements released a cover of " 20th Century Boy " as a B-side to the single " I Will Dare "; it is also included on the reissue version of their album Let It Be.

Peacock has been part of the creative team for several successful songs and albums including Amy Grant's " Every Heartbeat " ( 1991 ), Switchfoot's " Dare You to Move " ( 2003 ) and the The Civil Wars ' album Barton Hollow in 2011.

" and " Where Eagles Dare ", were released on the compilation album Legacy of Brutality in 1985 with overdubbed guitar and bass tracks by Danzig.

The original versions of " Where Eagles Dare " and " Teenagers from Mars " were included on the compilation album Misfits in 1986, and the original versions of all five tracks were released in 1996 in The Misfits box set.

The album does not contain any previously unreleased songs, although Ol ' Dirty Bastard's " Got Your Money ", N. E. R. D's " Truth or Dare ", and Richard X's " Finest Dreams " appear on the album, which is unusual for a hits collection album as she was a featured, not headlining artist on these tracks.

In recent years many Pointer Sisters songs have been covered by contemporary artists, such as " Jump ( for My Love )" by Girls Aloud, which reached number two at the UK singles chart in 2003, " Dare Me " was turned into the dance smash " Stupidisco " by Belgian DJ Junior Jack, indie band Le Tigre covered in 2004 " I'm So Excited " on their third album This Island, and French DJ Muttonheads sampled " Back In My Arms " on his 2005 club hit " I'll Be There ".

" Weird Al " Yankovic did a cover version of the George of the Jungle theme on his 1985 album Dare to Be Stupid, which later appeared on the soundtrack of the 1997 live-action film.