Hysteria

Hysteria is the fourth studio album by the English synth-pop band the Human League, released on 7 May 1984 by Virgin Records. Following the worldwide success of their previous studio album Dare, the band struggled to make a successful follow-up and the sessions for Hysteria were fraught with problems. The album title itself is taken from the problematic recording period.The centre gatefold features a collage of the band sitting around in a large living room watching the Norman Wisdom 1965 film The Early Bird. Record producers Martin Rushent and Chris Thomas both left the project which would eventually be finished by producer Hugh Padgham. Hysteria attained relatively lacklustre success in comparison to its multi-platinum predecessor. Three singles from the album reached the top 20 of the UK singles chart, and "The Lebanon" was the only single to chart in the United States, peaking at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting shipments in excess of 100,000 copies. In 2005, Hysteria was remastered and reissued with B-sides and extended mixes as bonus tracks. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteri...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)