Spandau Ballet
The eighties pop splendor is back
They gave a sophisticated touch to new wave pop with elements taken from black music
Spandau Ballet is back in the spotlight with the “Soul Boys of the Western World Live” tour, a name taken from an eponymous documentary directed by George Hencken, a close collaborator of Julian Temple, presented last year at the Royal Albert Hall and that had a big success at festivals such as Cannes or In-edit.
The film was released when the band announced that they were working on new songs, supervised by the famous producer Trevor Horn, the man who was behind Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys or Buggles, famous for the huge hit “Video Killed the Radio Star”. This work has produced three new songs, amongst them the single “This Is The Love”, included in the compilation “The Story: The Very Best of Spandau Ballet”.
The London quintet leaded by the singer Tony Hadley and the guitar player Gary Kemp became famous all over the world thanks to the convincing number one obtained with “True”, a song included in their eponymous third album, released in 1983, and also with songs such as “Gold”, that focused in the soul touch of their pop style.
Their huge eighties success had its last step with the “Heart Like a Sky” album (1989), after which the band split up. Twenty years later the band reunited in order to do a world tour and to release their seventh studio album, “Once More”, with re-recordings of their hits and two new songs. After selling more than 25 million records, they are in very good shape in a new tour that, in Barcelona, will coincide with the presence of their big rivals Duran Duran.
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