Sheffield synth-pop wonks the Human League also did a version of the Get Carter dee-dee music on their excellent 1982 album Dare.

Not being familiar with the works of the Human League (sadly I lost touch after Empire State Human), I mentioned this to my wife Rapunzel, who is very much in touch with the Human League. Off she goes to her vinyl shelf & pulls out a pristine copy of Dare - a classic piece of 1980s graphic design (which sadly so many Folk artistes would attempt to imitate with but frail irony) and soon the house is thrilling to the sublime synth-pop glories of another age. The great thing is Rapunzel was only eight-years-old when she bought this album! A true English sound and an instant icon of the shelf - along with Seamus Ennis's Bonny Bunch of Roses (which is how a folk album should look!), Peter Maxwell Davis' Eight songs for a Mad King and the first Back Door album with its iconic image of the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge. Also in there is the Bananas single, recorded by the Manband live at The Roundhouse at the same gig that provided the live sides of Back into the Future:   

Cultural Icons - 1st August 2009

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"Baby's head with the helmet on."

I love steak & kidney puddings, but for reasons of health find I must now abstain, though here in Fleetwood we have one of the finest chippies in the county, offering sit down facilities, with both Holland's and home-mades on the menu at prices so keen one might only resist for so long. Time to throw caution to the wind I think!

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One of the things we can surely agree on, S.

Hmmmm. We're offering you an education here, WAV - a crash-course in Englishness in which, I'm afraid, you're in no position to disagree. You are a novitiate, as can be shown from your somewhat wayward posts on the subject over the years of which the OP is typical. All you have to do is sit back and soak in these cultural offerings as being essential to the Engish Scheme to which you aspire. So a little less recalcitrance in future; people are giving of their time freely here, to ensue your repatriation is a happy one, so try and show some appreciation, eh?