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Spandau Ballet became one of the most successful groups of the New Romantic era of British pop, selling 25 million albums^[9] and having 23 hit singles worldwide.^[10] They gained international success as part of the record-breaking 1980s second US invasion of the Billboard Top 40^[11] and across Europe and the Far East. Their musical influences ranged from art-pop, synth-pop, blue-eyed soul, funk and rhythm and blues to glam rock, arena rock and the American crooners Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.^[12]

The band's classic line-up featured brothers Gary Kemp on guitar, synthesiser and backing vocals and Martin Kemp on bass, vocalist Tony Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble. Gary Kemp was also the band's songwriter. Their debut single, “To Cut a Long Story Short”, reached No.5 in the UK in 1980 and the Top 20 in Spain and Australia. It was the first of ten UK Top 10 singles hits including the No.2 “Gold” and two No.3 hits, "Chant No.1” and “Only When You Leave”. "True" reached No.1 in the UK, Ireland and Canada and the Top Five in the USA, Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand and Spain. It received a BMI award as one of the most played songs in history.^[13]

The band have had eight UK top 10 albums, including three greatest hits compilations and an album of re-recorded material. In 1984 the band were the first to be approached by Bob Geldof to join the original Band Aid line-up.^[14] The same year they received a Brit Award for technical excellence. In 1985 they performed in the huge Live Aid benefit concert at Wembley Stadium and for Prince Charles for his Prince’s Trust charity.

In 1990 the band played their last live show before a 19-year absence. In 1999 Hadley, Norman and Keeble launched an unsuccessful case in the High Court against Gary Kemp and Reformation publishing for a share of the band’s songwriting royalties.^[15] Spandau Ballet reformed in 2009 for The Reformation Tour, a sell-out “greatest hits” world tour.

In 2014 their archive-only feature length documentary biopic, Soul Boys of the Western World,^[16] was world premiered at SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. It was officially screened at the Rome, Ghent and NYC Doc film festivals and received its European premiere at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

In 2017, Tony Hadley publicly announced his departure from Spandau Ballet via Twitter.^[17] A year later, the band announced the singer and actor Ross William Wild^[18]^[19] as their new lead singer in a ticketed gig at Subterania Club^[20] in west London followed by a series of European live dates and a one-off show at Eventim’s Hammersmith Apollo.

History

1976–1982: Formation and early success

Gary Kemp and Steve Norman first decided to form a band, both playing guitar, in October 1976 after witnessing The Sex Pistols perform that summer at Islington’s Screen on the Green.^[21] As close friends and school mates at Dame Alice Owen’s in Islington they were joined by John Keeble on drums, Michael Ellison on bass and Tony Hadley on vocals when the school relocated to Potter’s Bar. They rehearsed at lunchtimes in the school’s music room, playing speeded-up versions of The Rolling Stones’ “Silver Train”,^[22] The Beatles “I Wanna Be Your Man” and The Animals “We’ve Gotta Get Out of This Place.” They also played an original Gary Kemp composition, “I’ve Got Roots”, which inspired their band name, Roots.^[23] Their first gig was a fourth-form Christmas party December 1976 in the school dining room.^[24]

The band changed their name to The Cut when Michael Ellison left with Steve Norman filling in on bass.^[25] In 1977 another Alice Owen’s pupil Richard Miller took over on bass guitar and the band changed their name to The Makers playing power-pop compositions by Gary Kemp or Steve Norman with titles like "Fantasy Girl" and "Pin-Ups" inspired by mid-Sixties bands like the Small Faces.^[26] They received a number of positive gig reviews from the British music press in Sounds and the New Musical Express^[27]. The band changed personnel and name once more when their manager, friend and fellow Dame Alice Owen’s schoolmate Steve Dagger suggested Martin Kemp be brought in as their bass player after seeing how much attention he got from The Makers’ female fans when he was their roadie.^[28] The band was now called Gentry and Martin played his first gig on July 1 1978 at the Middlesex Polytechnic in Cockfosters.^[29]

Inspired by London’s new underground nightclub scene, which began in Autumn 1978 with a weekly Tuesday night hosted by Steve Strange and DJ Rusty Egan at Billy’s in Soho,^[30] the band switched musical direction to embrace the new electronic music. Friend and writer Robert Elms suggested they change their name to Spandau Ballet, a phrase which he told them he had seen written on a wall on a weekend trip to Berlin.^[31] Their first performance was an invitation-only showcase on the morning of Saturday Nov 17, 1979 at Halligan’s Band Centre rehearsal studio, 103 Holloway Road,^[32] to test the reaction of the key influencers of the new scene. Having passed that ‘audition’ the band’s first gig as Spandau Ballet was at the Blitz’s Christmas party on December 5 1979.^[33]

A series of exclusive ‘secret’ gigs in 1980 at unique non-rock venues like the Scala cinema^[34] and the cruiser HMS Belfast, advertised only by word-of-mouth, created the hype for a major record companies bidding war,^[35] and the band signed to Chrysalis Records. They released “To Cut a Long Story Short”, produced by Landscape’s Richard James Burgess. It became a Top Five hit in the UK charts in late 1980 as well as reaching the Top 20 in Australia, Ireland and Spain. Their second single, “The Freeze”, was another Top 20 hit in the UK, Ireland and Spain followed by the double A-side “Musclebound/Glow” and the Gold-certified debut album Journeys to Glory in early 1981.

The band played their first US showcase in May 1981 at New York’s Underground Club, on 17^th and Broadway, with a fashion show by Axiom, a co-operative of the London club scene’s new clothes designers including Sade Adu.^[36] Spandau were the first UK pop band to perform live at the world-famous Ku Club in Ibiza.^[37]

Reflecting the rapidly evolving club scene and Soho’s hippest new nightspot, Le Beat Route on Greek Street, the band changed musical directions again^[38] releasing the funk single “Chant No.1 (I Don’t Need This Pressure On)” which was a No.3 hit in the UK charts and gave them their first American chart success reaching No.17 in the US Billboard Disco Top 80 in 1981.^[39] The song was championed by DJ Frankie Crocker on WBLS.

The follow-up album, Diamond, also produced by Burgess, was released in 1982. This album was certified Gold by the BPI. The band had Burgess remix every single from both albums for inclusion on each single's B-side and for 12-inch club releases. These mixes were later released as a boxed set. However, the second single from Diamond was "Paint Me Down," which broke their run of top 20 hits by stalling at No.30. The third single, "She Loved Like Diamond", failed to make the UK Top 40 at all.

Trevor Horn remixed the track "Instinction", which was released as the fourth single from the album. Backed with a special dance remix of "Chant No. 1" on the 12-inch single version, the release was very well received. It returned the band to the UK Top 10 after the poor chart performance of their previous two singles.

1983–1989: International success

The band released their third album, True, in March 1983. Produced by Tony Swain and Steve Jolley, the album featured a slicker pop sound and was recorded at Compass Point in the Bahamas. It was at this point that Steve Norman began playing saxophone for the band. The title track gave the band their first UK No.1 single and reached No.4 on the US Billboard chart. It was a multi-format hit in the US reaching No.1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and US Cash Box and also entering the US R&B charts. The band played four sell-out shows at The Wilton and The Palace, LA, in December 1983.^[40] The song was also a No.1 in Ireland and Canada and Top 5 in the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and Spain. It won a BMI award as one of the most played songs in history when it passed four million airplays in the United States, the equivalent of 22 years' continuous play.^[41]

The follow-up single, “Gold”, reached No.2 in the UK and Top 5 in Belgium, Ireland and Spain. The album topped the charts internationally, spent 64 consecutive weeks in the Top 100 albums chart^[42] and reached No.19 on the US Billboard 200. The singles “Gold” and “Communication” peaked at No.29 and No.59 in the US Billboard Hot 100. On their UK tour they were the first rock band to play Sadler's Wells and the Royal Festival Hall.^[43]

The follow-up album, Parade, was released in June 1984, and its singles were again big successes in the charts in Europe, Oceania and Canada. The album's opening song, "Only When You Leave", became the band's last American hit. The band’s first Top 10 single in Italy was “I’ll Fly For You”, a success they repeated with the singles “Fight For Ourselves” and “Through the Barricades.” At the end of 1984, the band performed on the Band Aid charity single alongside chart rivals Duran Duran, Culture Club and Wham! and in 1985 performed at Wembley Stadium as part of Live Aid^[44] to a global audience estimated at 1.9 billion. The "Spandau Ballet World Parade 84-85" was the group’s biggest tour to date, spanning Europe, America, the Far East and, for the first time, Australia and New Zealand. Their UK tour ended with six record-breaking nights at Wembley Arena. During the second show at LA’s Universal Amphitheatre Steve Norman tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee and the rest of the tour was cancelled.^[45] This also resulted in the cancellation of a proposed summer tour of Spain and Italy and a planned six-week tour of the United States supporting The Power Station.^[46] During this same year, Spandau Ballet achieved platinum status with the compilation The Singles Collection, which kept the focus on the band between studio albums and celebrated its five years of success. However, the album was released by Chrysalis Records without the band's approval and the band instigated legal action against the label.

After a bitter court case with Chrysalis, Spandau Ballet signed to CBS Records for £1.5 million in 1986 and released their fifth studio album, Through the Barricades. With producer Gary Langan the band moved away from their pop and soul influences to create a stadium rock sound. A dispute between Our Price Records and Sony over trading arrangements resulted in the Our Price chain and its chart return shops refusing to stock any CBS singles which affected the record sales of their first single release, “Fight For Ourselves.”^[47] Though it peaked at 15 in the UK it was a Top 10 hit in Italy and the Netherlands. The title track, songwriter Gary Kemp and singer Tony Hadley’s personal favourite, inspired by the murder of a friend Thomas 'Kidso' Reilly in Belfast by a British soldier,^[48] reached the Top 10 in the UK and in Europe, as did the album.^[49]

This was followed in 1986/87 by the band’s largest European concert tour to date "Through the Barricades - Across The Borders" with six record-breaking nights at the Ahoy Stadium in Rotterdam, another six nights at London’s Wembley Arena, 80,000 at Casa de Campo in Madrid and 50,000 at an open-air concert in Treviso.^[50] Tony Hadley and Gary Kemp performed "Through the Barricades" for the Prince's Trust at Wembley Arena with the 'house band' of Eric Clapton, Midge Ure and Phil Collins and "With A Little Help From My Friends" with George Harrison and Ringo Starr.^[51] In 1988 the band played for the King of Spain in front of the Royal Palace in Barcelona, on the same bill as Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, to launch the campaign for the 1992 Olympics.

After a hiatus from recording, the band released their next album, Heart Like a Sky, initially titled Home, in September 1989. For the first time new working methods were employed as Gary Kemp demoed his new songs programming the drums, keyboards and bass on a porta-studio with Toby Chapman, Spandau’s session keyboard player, rather than rehearsing with the band.^[52] The album and its singles were less successful than Barricades in the UK and the album was not released in the United States. The band continued to have success in Italy, a Spandau stronghold, where the singles “Raw” and “Be Free with Your Love” both reached the Top 10,^[53] and also in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.^[54] The album included, “Motivator”, the first song written by Steve Norman for the band since The Makers.

1990–1999: Break-up and solo projects

On Tuesday March 6 1990 the band played the final date of their 10^th anniversary tour at Edinburgh Playhouse before taking a break to pursue other acting and musical solo projects.

Gary and Martin Kemp took the leading roles as notorious East End gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray in The Krays movie^[55] which premiered in London in April 1990. The film won two Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Film and Most Promising Newcomer (writer Philip Ridley). Tony Hadley recorded his first solo album in Los Angeles produced by Ron Nevison. Steve Norman moved to Ibiza to collaborate on chilled out Balearic records with local producers. John Keeble continued as drummer with Tony Hadley and formed his own band, 69 Daze, with former Sigue Sigue Sputnik guitarist Neal X, followed by 99 shows across Europe with The Herbs and Pacific with guitarist John McGeoch.^[56]

Gary Kemp enjoyed further acting success, moving to Hollywood with actor wife Sadie Frost, to film The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner and Killing Zoe, directed by Academy Award winner Roger Avary, produced by Quentin Tarantino. In 1995 Gary released his only solo album, Little Bruises.

Martin Kemp also appeared in films and TV series in Los Angeles such as The Outer Limits, Murder Between Friends, The Series and Sugar Town which also starred John Taylor from Duran Duran.

In the 1990s, the band split up after a disagreement about royalties.^[57] Hadley, Norman and Keeble launched an unsuccessful court case against Gary Kemp for a share of Kemp's songwriting royalties from his work with Spandau Ballet.^[58]^[59] Although they vowed to appeal the verdict, they later decided against this.^[60] The three non-Kemp members then continued to tour as a trio, but they had to sell their shares in Spandau Ballet's company to Gary Kemp to pay off legal debts. Because the company owned the rights to the name of Spandau Ballet, the trio had to tour under the moniker "Hadley, Norman and Keeble, ex-Spandau Ballet".

After successful surgery for the removal of two brain tumours in the mid-Nineties, Martin Kemp joined EastEnders in 1998 as one of the British soap’s most popular bad boy characters, Steve Owen, winning Most Popular Actor at the 2000 National Television Awards and numerous Best Actor and Villain of the Year awards for the British Soap Awards, Inside Soap Awards and TV Quick Awards. He left EastEnders in 2002 for a golden handcuff deal with ITV drama and wrote his best-selling autobiography, True. He also wrote and directed his first film, Martin Kemp's Stalker.

Gary Kemp wrote songs with Paul Stratham, who had written songs for Dido, continued acting on stage, in film and in television, and wrote music and additional lyrics with Guy Pratt for Bedbug at the National Theatre in 2004 and A Terrible Beauty, with Guy Pratt and Shane Connaughton.^[61]^[62] He continued acting on stage, in film and on television. He played Serge in the West End production of Art in 2001. Films included Dog Eat Dog and American Daylight and TV shows Murder in Mind and Casualty.

Steve Norman formed chilled lounge band Cloudfish with Rafa Peletey and Shelley Preston in 2001. Tony Hadley released three studio albums. He played Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago and won the ITV reality show, Reborn in the USA in 2003 singing “Through the Barricades” to beat Michelle Gayle in the final. He appeared as a guest vocalist on the Alan Parsons album The Time Machine, performing lead vocals on the song “Out of the Blue”.

2009–present: Reunion

In early 2009, there was much speculation that the band was set to perform later that year.^[63]^[64]^[65] Although the band did not comment on these reports, the official Spandau Ballet website encouraged fans to sign up "for an exciting announcement",^[66] fuelling rumours that a reunion was imminent. Jonathan Ross mentioned during his BBC Radio 2 programme on 21 March 2009, that the band were re-forming and that he had been invited to the reunion party.^[67]

The band confirmed the rumours at a press conference on 25 March 2009, on board HMS Belfast in London, a return to the venue of one of their first gigs to announce their comeback tour.^[68] They were introduced by friend and broadcaster Robert Elms after a Billy’s and Blitz era DJ set by Rusty Egan. John Keeble and Gary Kemp revealed current musical influences as The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, MGMT and Florence and the Machine.

The band began a world tour in October 2009, starting with eight dates across Ireland and the UK, the first of which was in Dublin on 13 October 2009. The tickets for the UK and Ireland shows went on pre-sale on the official Spandau Ballet website on 25 March 2009. They went on general release on 27 March 2009. For the general release tickets, the London O2 arena tickets sold out within 20 minutes and an extra two dates were added there because of demand.^[69] The band also announced an extra date in Birmingham and added Liverpool to the tour. Members gave their "first public performance and interview anywhere in the world for 19 years" on the BBC television show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 24 April 2009^[70] performing “Chant No.1” with the original Beggar & Co and “Gold.”

On 19 October 2009, the group released a new album, Once More, which featured reworked semi-acoustic versions of 11 Spandau favourites and two new songs, the title track, written by Gary Kemp and Steve Norman, and Love Is All, the first Spandau song to be written by Tony Hadley. The album went Gold in Italy and Silver in the UK. Virgin Media honoured Spandau Ballet as the Best Comeback of 2009 in the Virgin Media Awards.^[71]

Spandau Ballet went on tour in Australia during April 2010 with Tears For Fears as part of a world tour.^[72] After a headline set at the Isle of Wight Festival on the same bill as Paul McCartney, The Strokes, Jay-Zee and Pink, the group played their last UK show of the Reformation Tour at Newmarket Racecourse on 25 June 2010.^[73]^[74]

In 2014 all five played live again with an anthology world tour to promote a critically acclaimed feature-length archive-only documentary of the band’s story and the pop cultural history of the Eighties, Soul Boys of the Western World.^[75]^[76] It world premiered at South By Southwest with Spandau also playing as part of the music festival,^[77] their first public appearance in North America since 1985. The band played five numbers for the film’s European premiere at the Royal Albert Hall. There were gala screenings in Sydney, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Auckland and Hamburg. The film had a UK cinema release. It was directed by George Hencken, produced by Steve Dagger and Scott Milaney with archive producer Kate Griffiths and included never-before-seen footage of the band playing and being interviewed at NYC’s Underground club in March 1981.

It was confirmed on 31 July 2014, that Spandau Ballet were working on new material in the studio with Trevor Horn.^[78]^[79]^[80]^[81] In the UK, the band appeared in an ITV show, Spandau Ballet – True Gold, in which they performed several hits and were interviewed by Christine Bleakley in front of a studio audience. The band performed their 1980s hit single "True" and a new song called "This is the Love" on Jimmy Kimmel Live on 11 November 2014. It was their US late-night TV debut and their first US TV appearance since 1985 when they played on Soul Train. They were there to promote their new greatest hits collection called The Story – The Very Best of Spandau Ballet, which also contains three new songs. The album reached the UK Top 10. Both “Steal” and “This Is The Love” appeared on the US Adult Contemporary chart.

The band embarked on another world tour in 2015.^[82] In January 2015, they appeared on The Today Show, performing "True".^[83] They also appeared on The Talk on 27 July 2015 to perform "True".

On 3 July 2017, Tony Hadley announced on Twitter that due to circumstances beyond his control, he was no longer a member of the band.^[84] The rest of the band released their own statement explaining that Hadley had made it clear to them in Sept 2016 that he did not want to work with the band any more and that they had now reached the decision “to move on as a band.”^[85]

On 7 July 2018 after a lengthy audition process Spandau Ballet revealed their new lead singer, Ross William Wild, at a show at Subterania Club in West London, a venue the band last played 40 years earlier in 1978 as Gentry when it was called Acklam Hall.^[86] Their first song as the new line-up was “Through the Barricades”. Wild had previously performed with Martin Kemp in the West End musical Million Dollar Quartet. Said Wild: “If it wasn’t for Spandau so much stuff wouldn’t have happened. They are pioneers.”^[87]

Spandau Ballet finished the year showcasing Wild with a one-off UK show on October 29 2018 at Eventim Apollo Hammersmith. On October 16^th the same year Tony Hadley played the London Palladium with The Tony Hadley Band.

In popular culture

The song “True” has been sampled in many songs including Queen Pen’s 1998 hit “It’s True” and Nelly’s “’N’ Dey Say” in 2004. It was a No.1 US Billboard Hot 100 hit for PM Dawn in 1991 as “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” and a Top 10 single as “You” on the US Billboard Hot 100 for R&B artist Lloyd featuring Lil Wayne in 2006. It has also been covered by The Black Eyed Peas, Fergie, Rui da Silva and Paul Anka and other artists.

"True" is featured in the movies Pixels, Sausage Party, Sixteen Candles, Charlie’s Angels,^[88] Crazy Stupid Love, Hot Tub Time Machine, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, 50 First Dates ^[89] and The Wedding Singer sung by Steve Buscemi's character.^[90]

"To Cut A Long Story Short" was sampled by Shakka on his 2015 single, “Say Nada”.

“Gold” has been used for the Olympics and numerous other sporting events worldwide. The songs have featured in TV shows The Simpsons, Spin City, Ugly Betty, Family Guy, Master of None, Suits, My Mad Fat Diary, Misfits, Skins, Ashes to Ashes, Gilmore Girls, Only Fools and Horses, The Office, Spaced, Grange Hill and many others.^[91]

Spandau Ballet songs have also been used successfully in many advertising campaigns on TV, radio, in-store and internet worldwide for Fernet,^[92] Chevy Malibu,^[93] Citroen,^[94] Flora,^[95] Alldays,^[96] Virgin,^[97] Taco Bell,^[98] Halifax,^[99] La Caixa & Paddy Power^[100] and many more.

Actor Edward Norton appeared on the ABC sitcom Modern Family as Izzy LaFontaine, a fictional bass player/backup vocalist for Spandau Ballet ("between Richard Miller and Martin Kemp"), in the episode "Great Expectations".^[101]

In series 4, episode 2 of Skins, JJ Jones and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain serenade Lara with a rendition of Spandau Ballet's "True". "Gold" is featured in the closing credits of the episode.

The song "Gold" appears in Rockstar Games' 2002 video game Vice City on the WAVE 103 Station, which plays New Wave and Synthpop songs. DJ Paul Oakenfold created a special 12-inch remix of "Gold" for the 2012 Olympics.^[102]

The song "True" appears as a collectible music tape in the 2015 game The Phantom Pain written and directed by Hideo Kojima

Members

Discography

Awards and nominations

Q Awards

The Q Awards are hosted annually by the music magazine Q. Spandau Ballet has received one award.

BRIT Awards

The BRIT Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. Spandau Ballet has received one award from one nomination.^[104]

Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards are awards for songwriting and composing, presented annually in London.

See also

Literature

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