SPANDAU BALLET ‘40 YEARS – THE GREATEST HITS’ FT 'THE BOXER'

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SIMON & GARFUNKEL COVER

CELEBRATING FORTY YEARS OF THE BAND THAT STARTED A MOVEMENT WHICH CHANGED THE WORLD

3CD / DOUBLE VINYL / 40th ANNIVERSARY RUBY COLOURED VINYL

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ALL THE HITS AND THE CLASSIC 12” VERSIONS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME

‘THE BOXER’ PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SIMON & GARFUNKEL COVER AVAILABLE 13th NOVEMBER

RELEASED 27th NOVEMBER 2020 BY REFORMATION/PARLOPHONE

40 years ago this month Spandau Ballet signed their first recording contract and within a month had released their first single ‘To Cut A Long Story Short’. The band defined the 80s in the way that The Who defined the 60’s, Bowie defined the 70’s and Oasis defined the 90’s. ‘40 Years – The Greatest Hits’ celebrates both the band’s musical and cultural impact.

The 3CD set features all the hits, fan favourite album tracks as well as classic 12” versions, and a previously unheard version of the Simon & Garfunkel classic ‘The Boxer’ recorded in 1990 with legendary producer, arranger and film composer Michael Kamen.

As the band’s critically acclaimed feature-length documentary ‘Soulboys Of The Western World’ showed Spandau were not just about music, they were the epicenter of fashion, and youth culture, speaking for an audience who previously had no voice.

In the early ‘80’s Spandau Ballet were the In Crowd’s band, they ushered in a new era of visually dominated pop and their mechanical, stylised sound was born and bred on the dance floors of the West End. They were Bowie Kids, Blitz Kids, and white soul boys embracing electronica, frilly shirts and tuxedos.

Spandau spearheaded an era of new pop that was destined to traverse the globe. Along with Duran Duran, Sade, Culture Club and Wham!, as well as dozens of other British groups who grew out of the new romantic scene at the end of the Seventies. By the mid-Eighties Spandau were global superstars.

Spandau became one of the most commercially successful bands of the decade, and during their career they notched up 23 hit singles and spent a combined total of in excess of 500 weeks in the UK charts, achieving album sales of over 25 million worldwide. Some of their songs, like “True”, “Gold” and “Through the Barricades” all written by the band’s songwriter Gary Kemp, have become standards. “True” has now achieved over five million plays in North America alone and “Gold” was the true soundtrack to the London 2012 Olympics

Spandau Ballet originally lasted ten years; a career that spanned the nightclubs of Soho and Ibiza to Hollywood and the stadiums of Europe and Australia. They defined the decade, they came, they saw, they partied, and then they left.

To paraphrase ‘True’ ‘and then they came back again’ firstly with the hugely successful sell-out Reformation Tour of 2009/10 and then once more with the ‘Soul Boys Of The Western World’ tour in 2014.

Spandau Ballet’s legacy and cultural impact remains undeniable.

SPANDAU BALLET

Gary Kemp: Guitars, keyboards, synthesizer, cheng & backing vocals
John Keeble: Drums, drum programming & backing vocals
Martin Kemp: Bass & backing vocals
Steve Norman: Guitars, saxophones, tablas, tuned percussion, percussion & backing vocals
Tony Hadley: Lead vocals & synthesizer

SPANDAU BALLET ‘40 YEARS – THE GREATEST HITS’ 3CD TRACK-LISTING

CD 1 – Hits
1. To Cut a Long Story Short
2. The Freeze
3. Musclebound
4. Toys
5. Glow
6. Chant no. 1
7. Paint Me Down
8. Coffee Club
9. She Loved Like Diamond
10. Instinction
11. Lifeline
12. Communication
13. Heaven is a Secret
14. True
15. Gold
16. Pleasure
17. Only When You Leave
18. I'll Fly for You

CD 2 – Hits
1. Highly Strung
2. Revenge for Love
3. Round & Round
4. Fight For Ourselves
5. Swept
6. Cross The Line
7. Through The Barricades
8. How Many Lies? - Remastered
9. Raw
10. Be Free With your Love
11. Crashed Into Love
12. Empty Spaces
13. The Boxer
14. Once More
15. This Is The Love
16. Soul Boys
17. Steal

CD 3 - 12" Mixes
1. To Cut A Long Story Short
2. The Freeze
3. Glow
4. Chant No 1
5. Paint Me Down
6. Lifeline
7. Communication
8. Gold
9. Fight for Ourselves
10. Cross The Line
11. Raw

SPANDAU BALLET ‘40 YEARS – THE GREATEST HITS’ 2LP TRACK-LISTING

Side A
1. To Cut a Long Story Short
2. The Freeze
3. Musclebound
4. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
5. Instinction
6. Lifeline

Side B
1. Gold
2. True
3. Only When You Leave
4. I'll Fly for You

Side C
1. Communication
2. Highly Strung
3. Round & Round
4. Fight For Ourselves
5. How Many Lies?

Side D
1. Be Free With your Love
2. The Boxer
3. This Is The Love
4. Through The Barricades

SPANDAU BALLET

‘40 YEARS – THE GREATEST HITS’ 3CD / DOUBLE VINYL / 40th ANNIVERSARY RUBY COLOURED VINYL RELEASED 27th NOVEMBER 2020 BY REFORMATION/PARLOPHONE

SPANDAU BALLET 1984 BY DENIS O’REGAN
SPANDAU BALLET 2014 BY SCARLET PAGE

October 21, 2020 11:32am ET by The Outside Organisation  

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