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Oakey and further
Because of the professionalism they had shown and because he planned to use them further vocally, Oakey and manager Bob Last made Sulley and Catherall full members of the band, to be paid on a salary basis.
After 4 months in Minneapolis, Oakey pulled the band out of further recording and they returned to Sheffield leaving Jam and Lewis to complete the album using session musicians.

Oakey and then
Ware then decided to invite an old school friend, Philip Oakey, to join the band.
In an event that is now firmly embedded in popular folklore and regularly repeated by the media, Oakey and his then girlfriend went into Sheffield city centre on a Wednesday night with the intention of recruiting a single female backing vocalist.
Oakey and Moroder then recorded an album together for Virgin, Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, but this met with rather less success and the following two singles failed to make the UK Top 40.

Oakey and 21
# " Toyota City " ( Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright ) – 3: 21
# " The Touchables " ( Ware, Marsh, Oakey, Wright ) – 3: 21

Oakey and who
She worked on the 22nd Bond adventure Quantum of Solace and reprised her role as M. She is interested in horse racing and in partnership with her chauffeur Bryan Agar owns a four-year-old horse, " Smokey Oakey ", who won the 2008 Brigadier Gerard Stakes.
In addition to Joseph Borden, who became a colonel during the war, patriots Francis Hopkinson ( a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ), Colonel Kirkbride, Colonel Oakey Hoagland and Thomas Paine resided in the area.
Since 1987, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey and long-serving female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley ( who joined the ensemble in 1980 ), with various sidemen.
Charlton published the short-lived Hillbilly Comics by Art Gates in 1955, featuring " Gumbo Galahad ," who was a dead ringer for Li ' l Abner, as was Pokey Oakey by Don Dean, which ran in MLJ's Top-Notch Laugh and Pep Comics.
* Don Knotts as Turkey Lurkey, a turkey who is the mayor of Oakey Oaks.

Oakey and had
Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware were the founder members of pioneering British electro-pop group The Human League ; Glenn Gregory had been their original choice when seeking a vocalist for the band but he was unavailable at the time, so they chose Philip Oakey instead.
Oakey had never sung in front of an audience before, could not play keyboards and only owned a saxophone ( which he could not play ).
The relationship between Oakey and Ware had always been turbulent, and the pair often quarrelled over creative and personal matters.
With the tour only ten days away and the music media reporting that The Human League was finished now that " the talented people had left ," promoters started threatening to sue Oakey if the tour was not completed as contracted.
To complete the tour, Oakey had to recruit new people in a matter of days.
Because of the girls ' ages, Oakey and Wright later had to visit Sulley and Catherall's respective parents to obtain permission for the girls to go on the tour.
In reality however, other musicians had input to the record, including producer Ian Stanley, with continued playing and songwriting contributions from Neil Sutton and Russell Dennett ; and Oakey co-writing one track with Jo Callis.
Virgin Records remastered and re-issued Travelogue on CD in 1988, with an expanded track listing which included the Holiday ' 80 EP, the disco single " I Don't Depend on You " ( originally released under the moniker " The Men "), and the single " Boys and Girls ", which had been produced by Oakey and Wright after the line-up split.
At the 2006 census, Oakey had a population of 3, 657.

Oakey and seen
* Philip Oakey can be seen wearing a t-shirt depicting Judge Death and the other dark judges in the video to the 1984 song " Together in Electric Dreams ".

Oakey and Sheffield
Oakey was working as a hospital porter at the time and was known on the Sheffield social scene for his eclectic style of dress.
Oakey was once observed chasing Ware up a Sheffield street, throwing bottles of milk from people's doorsteps at him.
In addition to Sulley and Catherall, Oakey employed professional musician Ian Burden from Sheffield synth band Graph as a session keyboard player for the tour to cover for the keyboards of the now departed Ware and Marsh.
Bands in the Sheffield scene were also referred to as Futurists, although Oakey himself has said: " We thought we were the punkiest band in Sheffield.
In 1989, the band built their own studio in Sheffield, jointly funded by Oakey and a business development loan from Sheffield City Council.
Their work was something of a Sheffield collective, and the trio worked with artists from the city including Tony Christie, Jarvis Cocker, Philip Oakey, Babybird and many others.

Oakey and .
In 1903 the 100, 000th Steinway grand piano was given as a gift to the White House ; it was decorated by the artists Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Maria Oakey Dewing under the supervision of the head of Steinway's Art Piano Department, Joseph Burr Tiffany.
Philip Oakey of the Human League and Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire as well as music journalist Simon Reynolds has cited the soundtrack as an inspiration.
When personal and creative tensions within the group reached breaking point in late 1980 Marsh and Ware left the band, ceding the Human League name to Oakey.
The only constant band member since 1977 is vocalist and songwriter Philip Oakey.
" When Ware called on Oakey he found he was out, so asked him to join The Future by leaving a note stuck to his front door.
From left to right Oakey, Wright, Marsh, Ware.
The Human League ( Mk2 ) 1981, from left Catherall, Callis, Wright, Oakey, Sulley, Burden.
Ware insisted the band maintain their pure electronic sound while Oakey wanted to emulate more successful pop groups.
Eventually it was agreed that Oakey would continue with The Human League name while Ware and Marsh would form a completely new band, which became Heaven 17.
Retaining the Human League name came at a heavy price for Oakey ; he was responsible for all Human League debts and commitments.
After looking in various venues, they visited the Crazy Daisy Nightclub on High Street where Oakey spotted two teenage girls dancing together on the dance floor.
With no preamble, Oakey asked both girls to join the tour as dancers and incidental vocalists.

further and recruited
In 1856, Anthony further attempted to unify the African-American and women's rights movements when, recruited by abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster, she became an agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society of New York.
Jerry continued to make occasional minor appearances ( with Watkins retaining a place in the opening credits ) and Tony recruited Jerry and Max together for one further case in the new format.
Arriving off the English coast in September he was joined by further forces recruited in Flanders and Scotland by Tostig Godwinson.
He recruited the female sociopath " The Viper ", a move that alienated his minions and was further rocked when his chief henchman Crossbones kidnapped Captain America's girlfriend Diamondback, resulting in Captain America finding Skull's new lair.
In this capacity he compromised a programme of joint U. S .- UK paramilitary operations ( Albanian Subversion, Valuable Project ) in Enver Hoxha's Albania ( although it has been shown that these operations were further compromised " on the ground " by poor security discipline amongst the Albanian émigrés recruited to undertake the operations ).
The studio sessions made use of a variety of drummers – Pastorius played the kit on two tracks and further contributions came from Tony Williams, Steve Gadd, and Peter Erskine ( the latter an ex-Stan Kenton / Maynard Ferguson drummer recruited to the project by Pastorius ).
Once they had that experience, which often included their first combat, they were further recruited into battalions of irregular troops called Special Guerrilla Units.
AUT is investing heavily in research, and has recruited large numbers of leading local and international researchers and experts to further its research profile.
However, the Giants recruited star players during the off-seasons, while Nagashima made further changes ( including converting a lifelong outfielder to third base ) and the Giants quickly re-assumed their dominant position in the Central League, winning league championships in 1976 and 1977.
In 1871, a new constitution brought about further changes to the group's name, offering the more modest Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in England, and, five years later, Princess Alexandra, Princess of Wales, was recruited into its membership, followed by her husband, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.
To further its plans for world domination, Shocker recruited its agents through kidnapping, turning their victims into mutant cyborgs and, ultimately, brainwashing them.
* 1998-10: James Seng, a former student of Tan Tin Wee at Sheares Hall, NUS, and student researcher at Technet and IRDU, Computer Centre, NUS, was recruited by CEO S. Subbiah to lead further IDN development at BIX Pte.
Upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1815 two regiments of Swiss infantry were recruited as part of the Royal Guard, while a further four served as line troops.
Production facilities were further expanded and many new staff recruited from Faversham and elsewhere in east Kent.
As war approached he was recruited into Section D of M. I. 6 as a propaganda specialist, then returned to the BBC, eventually becoming the producer of The Week in Westminster, the flagship programme covering Parliamentary activity-wherein he was able to further his acquaintance with important politicians, In London Burgess resided at Chester Square and later 5, Bentinck Street, for sometime with Anthony Blunt and Teresa Mayor, later Lady Rothschild.
Although Cambridge Town and Norwich CEYMS later decided against joining, a further four clubs were recruited ; Bury Town and Thetford Town from the Norfolk & Suffolk League, Chelmsford City from the London League and Clacton Town from the Ipswich & District League.
No further cohorts were recruited.
It called for more strict qualification of the faculty, and Severance reacted obediently and further recruited more members with degrees from credited institutions in North America and Europe.
These were taken further by the Imperial Youth Federation ; college students were trained, and some recruited, for home defense and regular military units.
Many of the volunteers who joined the BIA were not officially recruited, but rather individuals or gangs who took to calling themselves BIA to further their own activities.
For the Bloodline LP, released in 1991, Wilder recruited guest vocalists for the first time, with further contributions from Toni Halliday and Moby helping to produce an album that demonstrated his ability to concoct slow-burning soundscapes drenched in drowsy paranoia.
Due to the successful recruitment the government advertised again and subsequently recruited a further 4000 volunteers, initially named the 1st, 2nd and 3rd city battalion, they were later merged into The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
The inclusion of a " Bio-Dread Youth ," which recruited young survivors to Lord Dread's ideals to further advance his agenda, also paralleled the National Socialist and Communist regimes.
Most commonly they serve the interests of a foreign power in one of three ways: either as a controlled agent directly recruited and controlled by a foreign power ; as a “ trusted contact ” that consciously collaborates to advance foreign interests but are not directly recruited or controlled by a foreign power ; or as a “ useful idiot ” that is completely unaware of how their actions further the interests of a foreign power.

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