Ian Burden

Ian Burden

Ian Burden (born 24 December 1957 in Sheffield) was a keyboard player with the English synthpop band, The Human League, from 1981 up to 1989.

Formerly of Sheffield band Graph, Burden was employed as a session keyboard player for the Human League's October 1980 tour, covering for Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh's keyboards after their departure. In March 1981 he returned to the band full time, and would co-write much of their early 1980s material. He left the band in 1987.

Burden recorded a solo album, Loot, in 1990.

Burden played bass guitar on the 2006 debut release for The Tenth Stage, a Melbourne based band. The bass guitar (an Ibanez) used on these recordings was the same one he used to record "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" (although in the video he is playing a Fender Precision Bass), "Mirror Man", "The Lebanon", and "I Love You Too Much".

Awards

• 1982 BRIT Awards - (with The Human League) - 'Best British Breakthrough Act'