Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet is a British rock band in the 80s hits scored as True, Gold and Through the Barricades. Spandau gold at the time as one of the ringleaders of the New Romantics -scene (a reaction to the raw realism of the punk ) and was still haunted by this for years.



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*1 Biography  ==[Biography  edit ] == ===[Early  Years edit ]  === The band was founded in 1976 by ​​singer and songwriter Gary Kemp (born October 16, 1959) and guitarist Steve Norman (born March 25, 1960), two school friends with a shared taste in music. Soon they are joined by drummer John Keeble (born July 6, 1959), bassist Michael Ellison (soon replaced by Richard Miller) and singer Tony Hadley (born June 2, 1960).
 * 1.1 Early Years
 * 1.2 Journeys and Diamond
 * 1.3 Breakthrough
 * 1.4 The beginning of the end
 * 2 Solo Careers
 * 2.1 Tony Hadley
 * 2.2 Gary and Martin Kemp
 * 2.3 Steve Norman
 * 3 Comeback and revival
 * 4 Discography
 * 4.1 Albums
 * 4.2 Singles
 * 4.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 4.4 DVDs

The original name was The Cut, but this is first changed to The Makers to arrive in 1979 at Spandau Ballet, the Berlin district of Spandau . Gary's brother Martin (born October 10, 1961) is the new bass player and the manager Steve Dagger. Until then, the band sounded like The Kinks and The Rolling Stones in their early days, but now experimenting with electronic music and they regularly visit clubs like Sally's and Blitz, nesting site of the New Romantics. ===Journeys and Diamond [  edit ] === In 1980, Spandau Ballet signed to Chrysalis Records ; their debut single To Cut A Long Story Short is a top 5 hit in Britain . In February 1981 appears by Richard James Burgess produced album Journeys To Glory(which also The Freeze and Muscle Bound on single to be released); almost all the reviews are favorable, only the magazine Melody Maker speaks of "content-free music for vacuous people with empty lives." Yet the album is crowned with gold.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In the summer of 1981 the lords until then score their biggest hit with the Brit Funk number Chant No. 1; Steve Norman has now switched to percussion . Chant No. 1 is the harbinger of the album Diamond, which appears only in March 1982; by that time seem the successes already passed since the second single Paint Me Down in 30th place was stabbing the album at 15 and the title track not even fetched the UK top 40.The revenge comes with the fourth single: the ge by Trevor Horn remixed Instinction. ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Breakthrough  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Spandau exchanges the extravagant clothes for smart suits and Richard James Burgess Tony Swain and Steve Jolley (while Steve Norman next percussion also sax takes care); This resulted in the album True,released in March 1983. The first singles Lifeline and Communication reach Britain respectively the 7th and 12th place, but with the title track and the successor Gold is the international breakthrough a reality.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Spandau Ballet is going on tour with keyboardist Jess Bailey and a background choir consisting of mother and daughter Vicky and Sam Brown; on September 23, 1983 the band's opening act during Veronica 's Rock Night.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The fourth album in Munich included, Parade published in June 1984 and Only When You Leave, I'll Fly For You, Highly Strung and Round & Round, the row hits continued. Works Spandau Ballet join Band and Live Aid .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Plans have to be postponed for a new album because of a lawsuit against Chrysalis ; in the meantime released a Singles Collection, which in Britain makes it to third place.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1986 signs Spandau at WEA / Universal and CBS and in Dublin the more rock-oriented included Through The Barricades; The album will be released in October and will be preceded by the single Fight For Ourselves. The title track (followed by the anti- Thatcher -Song How Many Lies) is the latest big hit that the band will score. ===The beginning of the end <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1988, the single Raw appears as a harbinger of the album Heart Like A Sky; However, it was postponed because the Kemps are asked to play the lead roles in the gangster film The Krays. Preceded by the second single Be Free With Your Love looks Heart Like A Sky in September 1989 finally born, but by then the press and public have declined and even Gary Kemp feels alienated from the band. Only in Italy, the album is a success; in Britain remain the singles Empty Spaces and Crashed Into Love hanging down the Top 100, and America has long since dropped out.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The tour, which Birmingham again the decor is from the concert video, ending in March 1990 in Scotland , and Spandau Ballet comes apart, although not officially, anyway. The band has sold over twenty million records. ==<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[Solo  careers <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  == ===Tony Hadley <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Hadley brings 1992 a solo -album (State of Play) out; there appear a pair of singles, but none of them can match the Spandau successes. In 1995 Hadley brings out a live album and he pulls his football boots for a charity indoor tournament of MTV .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1997 Hadley brings his second solo album, which he mainly songs from the 80s covert . His version of Duran Duran 's Save A Prayer is recorded with Simon Le Bon himself. Followed by several other projects .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Hadley does in 2003 participated in Reborn In The USA, a knockout competition for ever successful artists that takes place in American pubs. Tony wins and starts in 2004 with a joint Greatest Hits -tour with Associate Peter Cox (former Go West ). His third solo album is filled with swing numbers .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In early 2007, he was the musical Chicago to see if Billy Flynn; After three months, however, he gets back on ("I did not stay longer than necessary"). In August of that year comes Hadley at the radio station Virgin FM started; thirteen months, he talks the party classics together as successor contemporary Suggs, whose band Madness is at odds with the Spandau philosophy . ===Gary and Martin Kemp <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The Kemps continue acting and spend a few years in Hollywood . Martin Kemp in 1994 suffered a brain tumor he recovers. In 1999 he ends up in the soap opera EastEnders, in which he plays the gangster Steve Owen. It gives him a British Soap Award for Villain of the Year. In 2002 he left EastEnders after his character in a spectacular chase is killed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Gary Kemp plays include also in the movie The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner and brings in 1996 a solo album.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1998 spanned Hadley, Norman and Keeble a royalty trial against Gary Kemp; in April 1999. However, they come as losers from the bus and they need to sell the rights to the name Spandau Ballet to pay as part of their debts. The rest is being repaid through from 2000 for two years as Hadley, Norman and Keeble act. In 2001 Hadley is interviewed for RTLprogramma Typically Eighty.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2002 appears the CD playpen Reformation; British Q magazine writes "Spandau was unlucky at the beginning of their career to provide the solution and ultimately to be the problem. "

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2005 they released even the live DVD Live from the NEC from a recording of the band's performance at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. This performance took place in 1986 . ===Steve Norman <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Norman brings the 90 on Ibiza by. He works as a percussionist and songwriter, and grants in the latter capacity to cooperate with a solo album of Münchener Freiheit vocalist Stefan Zauner. Since 2002 Steve sits with former Bucks Fizz -zangeres Shelley Preston Cloud Fish. ==Comeback and revival <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Since December 2007, rumors circulated that Spandau Ballet would meet again on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary . On March 23, 2009, says Hadley (48) in an interview with The Independent that the comeback eventually come anyway with a new album and a world tour. This officially confirmed two days later, aboard the HMS Belfast.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On April 24 of that year Spandau plays called number (plus a shortened version of Gold) in the talk show by Jonathan Ross ; he was one of the first at the height of their reunion .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On 13 October 2009 the Reformation is -tour launched in Dublin ; The Low Countries are affected by four concerts; three in the HMH (November 1, december [Top 2000 in Concert] and March 9, 2010 ) and Forest National (10 March 2010).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On November 20, 2009 Messrs bring a new version of True played during Children in Need, the annual BBC -geldinzamelingsactie for underprivileged children.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2014, the documentary Soul Boys of the Western World screened at the SXSW Festival 'and Spandau announces a new album. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Discography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Albums  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Single  Edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  Edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===