 The song was conceived, written and recorded at a time when the band was under considerable pressure to follow up the enormous international success of their previous album, "Dare".The band had taken up residence in the £1000 a day AIR Studios; they were there a full year and were agonising (and arguing) over every note of every track.With its heavy use of bass and rock guitars, "The Lebanon" was a radical departure from the established synthpop sound of the Human League.