Heaven 17 believe their signature hit Temptation
could never have been recorded in today’s timesof musical austerity. “Our label gave us a blank
cheque,” recalls Martyn Ware. “We had the best
studio, the best engineers and the best producers.
When I rang them up and said, ‘Can we have a
60-piece orchestra?’ they just said, ‘Yeah, go on
then’. There was more optimism about the money
records could make. You couldn’t imagine that now.”
Temptation still resonates with audiences young
and old wherever it’s played. “We performed it with
La Roux at Glastonbury a few years ago, before a
30,000-strong audience of mainly 20-year-olds, and
it was like they were all Heaven 17 fans,” says Glenn
Gregory. “It never fails to blow the roof off.”
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