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Heaven 17 are an English synthpop band originating from Sheffield in the early 1980s. The trio comprises Martyn Ware (keyboards), Ian Craig Marsh (keyboards) (both previously with The Human League) and Glenn Gregory (vocals). Although most of the band's music was recorded in the 1980s, they have occasionally reformed to record and perform since then, playing their first ever live concerts in 1997.
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. 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. Taking their new name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange, (where The Heaven Seventeen are at number 4 in the charts with "Inside"), they became Heaven 17 and formed the production company British Electric Foundation (BEF).
chorus:
Were American Angelz
And we know what we go
and what we got,
there's no stoppin to and
watch out cause were comin to you
and theres nothin you can do about it.
Cause were american,
and we are angelz to.
and were as tough as can be,
so you betta listen up.
Were gonna rock n roll,
and we will pop it up,
pop it up, so you betta listen up.
Chorus:
Were red white blue,
but were gold to you,
so were worth alot to listen to and,
Watch out cause were comin to you,