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Ian Craig Marsh (born 11 November 1956) is an English musician and composer. He was a founding member of the electronic band the Human League, writing and playing on their first two albums and several singles, until leaving in 1980 to form the British Electric Foundation and later Heaven 17.
Jul 1, 2010 · Ian Craig Marsh was a member of the synth-pop band Heaven 17, but he left the group in 2007 and went back to college. His whereabouts and activities are unknown, and fans miss his contribution to the music.
Heaven 17 are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1980. The band were a trio for most of their career, composed of former Human League members Martyn Ware (keyboards, drum machine, vocals) and Ian Craig Marsh (keyboards) with vocalist Glenn Gregory .
Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17, leaving Oakey and Adrian Wright to assemble a new line-up.
Learn about the origins, influences and achievements of Heaven 17, a British electronic pop group formed by Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory. Discover how they created their own musical style, collaborated with other artists, and produced hits like 'Temptation' and 'Let Me Go'.
Dec 5, 2021 · When founding members Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware left to form Heaven 17, singer Phil Oakey brought it female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley and reinvented the group, moving them away from their dark, experimental roots and reinventing them with a more commercial synth-pop sound.
Apr 3, 2011 · Synthesizer wizards Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh went onto form Heaven 17 but singer Oakey retained the band name. In one of pop's true fairytales, Oakey, with a tour imminent, recruited teenage schoolgirls Catherall and Sulley to the band when he saw them dancing at a nightclub in Sheffield.
