Random 80s Week 2! #4 - Spandau Ballet - True

[@joelscottarnold3262]

One of my favorite memories of this song was just a couple of years ago with a group of friends at a small bar. The first few notes came over the speakers ( we were several drinks deep at this point ) and I turned to one of my best friends ( a quite handsome straight gentleman ) and just said, “Dance with me for a minute.” And he looked at me and said, “Let’s Go.” It felt like Sixteen Candles. Classic.

[@BDog54]

One of the greatest songs of the 80s British music scene.

[@ElfDraven]

Spandau Ballet were awesome. So many great songs. They were dismissed by some critics because they were pretty boys but they did have a lot of quality. This one is a classic. Do more songs.

[@JoTracy]

One of my all time favourites 😍 Thanks guys

[@gigi-ij1hk]

This band was one of the New Wave/Post Punk/New Romantics crowd who idolized Motown artists and were trying to emulate them both stylistically and musically (hence the lyric "Listening to Marvin [Gaye] all night long." See also: ABC, whose biggest US hit was "When Smokey Sings" (as in Robinson).

[@Reba-123]

Yep the guys don’t understand the fashions back then lol

[@traceyy68]

I was a teenager in the 80s and this band was EVERYTHING !!!!!!

[@WayneCoston-kj1go]

The Spandau boys stopped on the Bryan Ferry page of the fashion catalogue here...

[@celine4evauk]

Lol Tony Hadley is the lead singer. He sings "sound" when it kicks in - "this is the sound of my soul" Seth MacFarlane is Gary Kemp, his brother is there too, Martin. They acted together in the film The Krays. They were part of the New Romantics style bands back in the 80's. Other great tracks (if you haven't already heard them) are Gold and (my favourite) Through The Barricades.

[@AmaanStorm]

4:53 is Gary Kemp. He's the brother of band member Martin Kemp. Gary also played the selfish publicist and advisor 'Sy Spector' to Whitney Houstons character 'Rachel' in 'The Bodyguard' movie.

[@user-bj2lu9qt3o]

Oh I knew this was Sy! 😀

[@JaNeZoKu]

Beautiful song and a very nice video. To me the pianist looks a lot like the former lead singer of Wet Wet Wet, Marti Pellow, in his younger days.

[@liz6965]

One of my fave UK 80s bands! They have some great hits. Gold (more sexy sax), To Cut A Long Story Short, Chant no 1, Communication, Only When You Leave, Through The Barricades. Lead singer is Tony Hadley and his voice is magnificent!! ❤ please do a few more of their songs.

[@tparmenter]

That’s the one! Gold is awesome. I’d also throw in Only when you leave.

[@WayneCoston-kj1go]

Gold (Gold!)...

[@anabltc]

The Wedding Singer 😂 Steve Buscemi

[@Benefacez]

With their suits and ties they remind me of early Beatles, just more poppy 🙂

[@susan3242]

Now you have to listen to P.M. Dawn sample this in "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss."

[@wheredowegofromhere86]

And stay tuned because up next Rick Astley will bring us home with his new number one WTF that voice that face hit Never Gnna Give u up!!!

[@Benefacez]

From Wikipedia about the origin of the band name: "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: “Rudolf Hess, all alone, dancing the Spandau Ballet”. Spandau is a part of Berlin where Rudolf Hess, a nazi war criminal was incarcerated. FYI

[@gigi-ij1hk]

Pronounced Span-DOW

[@gigi-ij1hk]

And the "Spandau ballet" was suicide by hanging

[@wheredowegofromhere86]

His microphone is SO SMALL 😂 I know that much is true

[@mitchell1715]

The mic is normal size, he's just got extremely large hands 😂 they look like a wedding band 😂

[@Scary__fun]

The band didn't dress like this, it was the director of the video's idea. It's pronounced Span-dow (rhymes with cow) and refers to a Berlin prison and the "ballet" refers to the twitching of prisoners being hanged there.

[@Sanchordia]

I always think it’s weird for them to name the band after a notorious Nazi jail

[@Reba-123]

A friend suggested they change their name …he had been to Berlin and saw it written on a wall ..Rudolf Hess ….all alone dancing the spandau ballet…

[@anissacorbin32]

Ya'll are funny. The mic analysis/imitation had me dying😂

[@LoftcastwiththeJeanieverse]

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