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Ian Craig Marsh

Musical artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Ian Craig Marsh 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.

Editorial summary

“Ian Craig Marsh” enters the record as musical artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Craig, Marsh and Musical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Craig, Marsh and Musical.
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Why this record matters

“Ian Craig Marsh” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Craig, Marsh and Musical provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 13, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ian Craig Marsh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.