SPANDAU BALLET - True | FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION

[@roberthalpern5454]

One of the best 80s songs ever!

[@emmafrench7219]

Well this brings back some very good, exciting memories. I was in London in the early 80s and I saw this very handsome bloke standing outside of a posh car fiddling around with a briefcase as me and my sister and her husband walked by. He winked and gave a little whistle and we all started chatting. Anyway I went on a few dates with him and discovered after a couple of dates that it was Steve (Norman) from Spandau Ballet! I wasn't really too mad about their music. It only lasted about 4 or 5 months as he was away a lot and in the meantime I met my future husband. But all remained friends. Sorry to be boring but I'm a bit ill in bed and this has brought back lovely memories. Happy days.

[@tinapatterson5022]

I Love a Great Memory Story, Thanks for Sharing That. It was Real Cool! ✌

[@LouieLouie3]

Spandau Ballet was a band from the New Romantic movement of the early 80’s. It included bands such as Duran Duran, Soft Cell, and Culture Club.

[@floorticket]

The epitome of early 80s, Friday night, gymnasium slow-dance songs.

[@dalee72]

In addition to the Wedding Singer, this song is part of the John Hughes film Sixteen Candles with Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall. React to their song Gold please.

[@MUTTSANBGS]

The lead singer Tony Hadley lives quite local to me and has been in the supermarket around the corner from me several times. My dad (who is a self employed Landscape gardener) also worked on his garden a few years ago. Tony Hadley is an absolute gentleman and very down to earth and humble guy.

[@alejandrobojorquez6181]

" Gold (12" Mix) " - SPANDAU BALLET ... 7:15 Minutes Running Time also from 1983 Original Version Special Edition Extended 12 " Mix for even more amazing and Creative Vocals and Music 🎵🎶 if you liked this awsome song True then your going to definitely Enjoy this Next Mega Radio Hit of 1983 the Extended Version with Extra. Amazing Groovy 80s Beats such as 🎷 saxophone and Percussion Check out this one too it's Amazing 🥇 🎸 🎷

[@ohfour-seven6228]

Great song from a great band. Other songs to check out: Paint Me Down, Chant No. 1, Lifeline, Communication and the incredible Gold. Glad to see Spandau Ballet on your channel!!!

[@gerib4234]

What a perfect song. I'd forgotten how good it is! Thanks for this one❤️

[@clifton8929]

I was stationed at RAF Alconbury, England when this came out. This was a huge hit and part of the new romantic music movement. Great song. Excellent commentary.

[@bjw0515]

It is funny how we never appreciate the music we had til we no longer have it, but we do have you to bring it back to remember thank you!

[@bryanCJC2105]

Spandau Ballet! Awesome band with a lot of hits!

[@Wordsmyth8]

Such a good song.

[@richardbeaton7324]

Another 80s tune like this is Nu Shooz - I can't wait.

[@jamesferris4573]

I was in my 40s when this song came out. The late 50s and the 60s were my favorite musical eras, but I still liked this song and other from that decade.

[@btorokolo]

It's been 40 years since this song came out..time goes by...Tony Hadley what a great voice 👍👍

[@reneeroxanneabeln2202]

Great reaction, Shawn - yeah, this was such a high school slow dance song. I actually like it more now than I did back in the 80's. 😁I think it's pretty smartly written, and the groove is pretty irresistible. It was sampled by PM dawn back in '91, and that was a huge hit, so you also might have caught hits of it there. 🙂

[@brandonjones1349]

Boom. 80s! Nice friggin call!

[@marianclough8577]

I love Spandau Ballet and actually have the cd to this in my car. The entire album is great. Yes, very. 80s but one of the best of the 80s.

[@jollyrodgers7272]

Yep - this was a Slow Dance "Babe Layer". As a child of the fifties, I enjoyed so much of the '80s - we were experiencing a Multimedia Renaissance, for sure. Extra Network with FOX, cable channels, music videos and MTV, plus film and cultural transformations (Vietnam was over, as well as the Oil Embargoes. 'Recreationals' were cheap and plentiful, race relations were better than ever, etc., etc.). At one point some 5,000 artists were moving into LA county every week - and then there was NYC and London as the other centers of the renaissance. Even some old groups from the '60s and '70s made 'comebacks' - recording some of their best stuff in the '80s, which spanned '79 - '90.

[@pattymckitrick7436]

Another truly unique, and epic 80s hit.

[@sarablack2547]

Gary kemp the bands writer was on the piano in this video.his tounger brother Martin was on guitar. George Michael help set up martin and his backing singer for whan Shirley in the 80's they are still together. Gary and martin kemp went into acting playing the krays in a movie. Martin went into soap EastEnders for a couple of years. Gary played Whitney Houston's character racheal's manager in the bodyguard.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Martin Kemp and Shirlie were in the music video of Last Christmas 🎄.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Movies 🎥 16 Candles 🕯 starring Molly Ringwald in 1984. The Wedding 💒 Singer has an excerpt. Written by Gary Kemp. Classic 🙌 1980s pop ballad. In the video he is on piano 🎹. But, in concert and in the studio 🎙 he was on guitar 🎸. Jess Bailey was on piano 🎹 in the studio and on tour in early days of Spandau Ballet. Martin Kemp, younger brother of Gary, on bass guitar 🎸. He was married to Shirlie Hollliman, who was a backing singer for Wham! You can see them in the music video 📹 Last Christmas 🎄. Steve Norman on saxophone 🎷 John Keeble on drums 🥁. Tony Hadley on lead vocals. He quit. The band broke up afterwards. 7:15. Marvin refers to Marvin Gaye, who was alive in 1983. RIP. Samples. 1 In 1991, PM Dawn used a sample for a song 🎵. 2 Backstreet Boys had a sample: ain't nothing but a heartache 💔 matched the descending piano scale, 8:06 and last 10:53, of True. Suggested videos 📹: 1 PM Dawn performs Set Adrift on Memory Bliss 2 Backstreet Boys sing I Want It That Way. 3 Spandau Ballet performs Highly Strung.

[@NoCanDu]

I was 14. First year of HS. This was played at the very first dance we had! I bought the album straight off! ❤

[@thedocofrock1890]

these dudes just OOZED class.

[@fhdz505]

Altered Images "happy birthday"!.. 80s was filled with an emerging spectrum of genre's: Synth, Synth Pop, New Wave..etc. Love My 80s!❤

[@stephenulmer3781]

Altered Images was a New Wave band from the early 80s. They were popular in the UK . In The US they were mostly played on New Wave radio.Songs by them include " I could be happy" ,". Happy birthday,". " Don't talk to me about love" and " See those eyes" 😊

[@lyndadowns4876]

I believe this song was written about her.

[@denisletourneau9750]

EVERYBODY on planet earth has heard this great song.

[@TeresaMosby-sm4js]

You are right, it was definitely in The Wedding Singer! Good song.

[@elishabacon2299]

Right!! Billy Idol reference

[@cyrilmauras4247]

Masculine glam! I LOVE IT! I always loved this song!

[@tracyabbott3373]

I was in my early 20’s when this song came out.. I got sooooo much flack for liking this…. All my friends were into the Hair Bands..I liked both!

[@VickiBrowne-yk4co]

Hair who?

[@elishabacon2299]

Ear Candy,!

[@newfiemom8696]

They played this at all our dances in High School LOL

[@tropenkindje1]

My favorite band. Please also react to THrough the barricades, Gold, Chant no.1, To cut a long story short, Only when you leave, I'll fly for you

[@randlnickel9196]

My wedding song

[@johnathanstruble1064]

Couple Skate only! ❤😂

[@dow311]

I think this song was in the 1998 The Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.

[@kellyreiterman]

Back to senior year in high school for this one.

[@lloydwinsf]

I was in my early twenties when this was released. Well aware of both groups, did not know that Claire was the inspiration for the song. For Altered Images,listen to “Happy Birthday” or “I Could be Happy”.

[@newfiemom8696]

Also in 80’s movies … yes wedding singer … Adam Sandler always has the best music in his movies

[@juneseghni]

School disco slow dance at the end of the evening. Still love the song and Tony Hadley has aged well 😜

[@mickr1448]

Funny someone in the comments mentioned Altered Images as allegedly this song was written by Gary Kemp about his secret love affair with Claire Grogan, and yes Gold 12" is a banger 🙂

[@kathyutica]

It was in 16 candles

[@gfbumble]

Oooh…stepped back in time to my homecoming high school dance.

[@extracaliber432]

To Cut A Long Story Short... is another good one by them.

[@teresacartwright5406]

True was released in 1983.

[@corvus1374]

Tony Hadley was an icon

[@FavoriteMovieDate]

Love ❤️ Love This Song! So beautiful.

[@VernonOdom-jw4ko]

You got it Shawn, it's 80's Blue-eyed Soul!

[@willfromyadkinville]

great song! on the surface seems like a happy song but take a deep dive into the lyrics!

[@RayEvans-j1q]

Classic Eighties’ hit from the UK!

[@MrIceman2307]

It was up for consideration for my senior prom in '85 but lost out to Heaven by Bryan Adams.

[@muriel2267]

Images of Steve Buscemi belting this song out in the wedding singer lmao

[@elishabacon2299]

Robbie and Julia ah ah ah

[@betseyr.9081]

Was used in a luxury US car commercial about a year or maybe two ago.

[@anthonyjames4648]

👍❤

[@QuirkydudeKevin]

Senior Prom 1983

[@gfbumble]

Maybe time to start checking out The Commodores….smooooth.

[@littlechicks3520]

This just shourts 80s doesnt it? God, i miss this era, love to get in a time machine and go back!

[@mindovermatter6664]

Great reaction! Would suggest ”Through the Barricades” by them and maybe also check out”Avalon” by Roxy Music with lead singer Bryan Ferry if you haven’t already. I think they also recorded in the Bahamas…maybe that was a thing🙂🙃I enjoy watching your channel!

[@michiganjfrog366]

16 Candles

[@psychokitty7268]

I don't care much for Wham. I prefer George Michael as a solo artist. You should check out One More Try and Father Figure.

[@tracyabbott3373]

Teacher!! One of my favorites!

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Martin Kemp, bass guitar, was married to Shirlie of Wham. They appear in the music video Last Christmas.

[@FrankMoscato-gq9jc]

This is one of those songs when it came on at a house party or dance you try to look for that girl that would dance with you didn’t work out too good for me most of the time ha ha

[@Somewherein609]

Backstreet boys sampled this lol. Great tune!

[@juneseghni]

As a British band the name is pronounced BALL -et. Stress is on the first syllable in British English , unlike in the US. Sounds weird to our ears how you said it.

[@gailstevens6831]

Tony Hadley had a great voice, shame about his politics

[@SteveWeiland-h6h]

Slow dance? I remember seeing a few people trying to slow dance to this, but they gave up the slow dancing when they noticed nobody else was.

[@pablomazzeo8540]

thrught the barricades was other good song of spandue Ballet

[@GoldTop57]

I prefer Steve Buscemi’s version

[@elishabacon2299]

Robbie and Julia ahh ahh