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Susan 2005
For a celebrity Susan actually leads a charmed life with the media, 99% of comment about her is complimentary. Her quiet, non-showbiz lifestyle has a lot to do with it, but in general the media leave her completely alone. Certainly very few people go out of their way to be rude or negative about her.
This page could be filled with the most common comments about her such as 'her unique dancing' and or that 'she looks 20 years younger than she is'. So for the purpose of balance this page is home to some of the more interesting things people have said or written about her, and not all of it necessarily totally complimentary.....
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”...But that blonde singer (Susan is it?), I thought that surely can't be her, she looks like she's about 25!"
Article from efestivals.com about FIB Benicassim 2007
” Big surprise of the night, though, were the girls, Joanne and Susanne. They dance, sing, move, look and dress no better than anyone else in the place - and it's perfect! Were they outrageously professional in any respect, the whole ragged appeal would be ruined.
Get used to them if you aren't already. They'll be around for a while. ”
Prophetic words by
Mark Ellen
(review of Rainbow Theatre gig 05/12/81)
Smash Hits
Magazine December 1981
”Susan is totally binary in everything.
With her opinions, everything is either marvellous or it's abysmal.
And with her driving you’re either standing still
or going very, very fast indeed!”
Philip Oakey speaking to Smash Hits Magazine 1986 (after one of Susan's infamous 'near misses' in her new car)
"Sulley, a key figure of many men's formative years, was, of course, wailed at during 'Don't You Want Me?'. She came close to stealing the show, but Oakey - still handsome and lugubrious - wrested it back during a double whammy of Love Action and (Keep Feeling) Fascination. "
Caroline Sullivan / The Guardian 2004 (SBE Gig Review 14/12/04)
"..and how exactly do two average looking women become world-renowned sex symbols with little or no effort?"
(a slightly bitter and catty) Clara McDonnell - In Dublin magazine 12th January 2006
"I notice the word Moody is not in her Wikipedia article"
Posted by 'a regular' on Secrets Human League Fan Forum March 2007 .
" and Suzanne Sulley of the Human League, have you seen her recently!! "
FHM Magazine 'Ladies of the 80s' article Nov 2003.
"She's not very good at fighting"
Philip Oakey (after defending himself from a Sulley Kung Fu attack)
speaking to NME Magazine 18th November 1995
"Susan Sulley is doing alright, challenging the theory that getting older means getting fat and saggy, standing so tall and slender that if she’d been any thinner when she were younger she’d have probably been little more than a walking cotton-bud.
Alex Hoban, E-Gigs Review: Nottingham, Rock City 2005
"Wow - in the new flixter pictures on the site Susan looks like a very hot Bond Girl"
Rose Dann, Secrets Forum, 30th August 2007
referring to pictures taken at FIB Benicàssim
"Susan’s got really good tuning where as myself and Joanne aren’t particularly strong on tuning…I do a rough version and it’s only when Susan starts doing it that you see what it will be like."
Philip Oakey, on song writing.Sound on Sound Magazine, April 1995
"Those are not the legs of a 45 year old woman! ...Perhaps she really is a vampire !?
Comment on Youtube.com January 2008
( video in which Philip was dressed in his 'Matrix' style)
"Susan Ann Sulley of the Human League may well be the most down to earth popstar in Britain!"
The Wharf (UK), December 12, 2002