Philip Oakey & the Other Human League Members Who Wear Eyeliner...

That's no girl, that's Human League leader Philip Oakey!

In 1982, American pop music fans were mesmerized by the Human League's "Don't You Want Me", enough so that it would spend 3 weeks at #1 in mid-'82.  It had topped the British charts several months earlier.  But despite being nominated for 1983's 'Best New Artist' Grammy (Men At Work would win), the Human League was by no means 'new'.  The group had formed in 1977, and had several other minor hits in England before making the leap to the US.

Singer and lipstick-wearing leader Philip Oakey was the only remaining original member of the band.  Co-founders Martyn Ware and Ian Craig-Marsh left the band shortly before it was scheduled to begin a tour in 1980.  To fill the void left by the departure, Oakey recruited two high school girls (Susan Sulley and Joanne Catherall, whom he met in a dance club) to perform as vocalists/dancers on the tour.  The pair would become permanent members of the band, and Catherall would share lead vocals with Oakey on "Don't You Want Me".