The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination

What this video is

Released on 15 April 1983 as a non-album single, '(Keep Feeling) Fascination' arrived during the height of the Second British Invasion, when British synth-pop acts dominated US Billboard charts via heavy MTV rotation. The track peaked at #2 in the UK and #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100, while reaching #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart — the band's first US dance chart number one. It was designated 'Red'…

Why it matters

A defining artefact of early 1980s synth-pop's commercial and visual peak, this video exemplifies the era's fusion of conceptual art sensibility with pop accessibility. Barron's cartographic high-concept approach — using a real painted location as a literal map pin — established a visual…

The director

Irish-British director born 4 May 1956 in Dublin; began career as a camera assistant on A Bridge Too Far (1977), The Duellists (1977), and Superman (1978). Made his music video directorial debut in 1979 and became a defining figure of the early MTV era,…