Ian Charles Burden (born 24 December 1957) is an English musician who played keyboards and bass guitar with The Human League, initially as a session musician, and later full-time, between 1981 and 1987. He attended The King's School in Peterborough, as a boarding pupil, where he played in several amateur bands. Burden recorded a solo album, Loot, in 1990. Burden also contributed bass guitar to Parralox's State of Decay album, released in Germany in 2009. In 2018, he released the second solo album Hey Hey Ho Hum .