TRUE
SPANDAU
BALLET
SONGWRITER: GARY KEMP
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: TRUE
LABEL: CHRISALIS RECORDS
GENRE: NEW WAVE/POP
YEAR: 1982
Spandau Ballet (/ˈspændaʊˈbæleɪ/ SPAN-dow BAL-ay) were an English pop band formed
in Islington, London, in 1979. Inspired by the capital's post-punk underground dance scene, they emerged at the start of the 1980s as
the house band for the Blitz Kids,
playing "European Dance Music" as "The Applause" for this
new club culture's audience. They became one of the most successful groups of
the New Romantic era of British pop and were part of the Second British Invasion of the Billboard Top 40 in the 1980s, selling 25 million albums and
having 23 hit singles worldwide. The band have had eight UK top 10 albums,
including three greatest hits compilations and an album of re-recorded
material. Their musical influences ranged from punk rock and soul music to the American crooners Frank
Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
The band's classic line-up featured Gary Kemp on guitar, synthesiser and backing vocals, his brother 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. It was the first of ten UK Top 10 singles. The
band peaked in popularity in 1983 with the álbum True, with its title track reaching No.1 in the UK and
the top five in the US. In 2011 it received a BMI award as one of the most played songs in US history with four
million airplays. In 1984 they received a Brit Award for technical excellence and were the first act to be approached by Bob Geldof to join the original Band
Aid line-up. In 1985 they performed at
the Live Aid benefit concert at Wembley Stadium.
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 his Reformation Publishing Company for a share of the
band's songwriting royalties. 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, was world premiered at SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. It was officially screened at the
Rome, Ghent (Belgium) and NYC Doc film festivals and received its European
premiere at the Royal Albert Hall,
London.
In 2017 Hadley announced his departure from
Spandau Ballet. A year later, the band announced singer and actor Ross William
Wild as their new frontman for a series of European live dates and a one-off
show at Eventim's Hammersmith
Apollo. In May 2019, Wild tweeted that he had quit
the band "to pursue my own music with my band Mercutio", while
Spandau bass player Martin Kemp confirmed there were no further plans for
Spandau to tour without original singer Hadley.
True is the third studio album by the English
new wave band Spandau Ballet.
It was released on 4
March 1983 on Chrysalis Records. While Spandau Ballet's first two
albums earned them European popularity, True made them worldwide stars and was
heavily influenced by jazz, soul and R&B.
and charted in numerous other countries around the world.
A remastered version of "True" was
released on 3 July 2003 to commemorate its 20th anniversary. It was re-released as a single CD
with the original eight tracks along with the music video for "Gold"
and some home video footage of the band. The original 8-track album was also
issued on the high-resolution super audio CD format as a Hybrid SACD (in stereo
only). In 2008, the album was given away free with copies of
the Daily Mail newspaper. In June 2010, a special edition was released on 2 CDs and
DVD as part of the 2010 Spandau Ballet reissues series, featuring remastered
12" remixes and B-sides, plus a live concert.
So true funny how it seems
Always in time, but never in line for dreams
Head over heels when toe to toe
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound
I bought a ticket to the world
But now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line
Oh I want the truth to be said
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
With a thrill in my head and a pill on my
tongue
Dissolve the nerves that have just begun
Listening to Marvin (all night long)
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound
Always slipping from my hands
Sand's a time of its own
Take your seaside arms and write the next
line
Oh I want the truth to be known
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
I bought a ticket to the world
But now I've come back again
Why do I find it hard to write the next line
Oh I want the truth to be said
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
Huh huh huh hu-uh huh
I know this much is true
This much is true
I know, I know, I know this much is true.
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