Heaven 17

Glenn Gregory, the only son of a steel worker, was born in Sheffield and grew up on the Flower Council Estate in Shire Green, one of the poorest and roughest areas of Sheffield. 

As a frustrated 16-year old he found salvation at the Meatwhistle theatre/arts workshop, where he met Phil Oakey, Adi Newton, Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh, with whom Gregory embarked on his pop star career in his first band, Musical Vomit. Martyn and Ian went on to form The Human league.

Gregory moved to London where he worked as a photographer's assistant and a youth worker until he was eventually approached by Marsh and Ware, who travelled down from Sheffield to ask Glenn to sing in their new band, which they were thinking of calling Heaven 17 (the name of a fictional pop group in the classic Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange).