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40 Years: The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released in 2020.The collection includes every song issued as a single by the band to that point, although the original recording of "Instinction" from the 1982 Diamond album was chosen over the hit remix by Trevor Horn.
[19] After "True" was released in mid-April 1983, [46] however, they left Spandau Ballet a message to let them know that they thought the song was "fantastic". [19] Despite Kemp's feeling in the Bahamas that it would be a hit, Hadley never even thought it would be released as a single. [29]
Spandau Ballet (/ ˈ s p æ n d aʊ ˈ b æ l eɪ / SPAN-dow BAL-ay) were an English new wave 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.
The Story – The Very Best of Spandau Ballet: Released: 13 October 2014; Label: Rhino; 8 22 102 26 24 — 13 9 54 — BPI: Gold [12] 40 Years: The Greatest Hits: Released: 27 November 2020; Label: Warner; 15 — — — — — — — — — BPI: Silver [12] "—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
The Best of Spandau Ballet is a greatest hits album by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 16 September 1991 by Chrysalis Records.It features most of the band's singles between 1980 and 1989 in chronological order of release.
True is the third studio album by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 4 March 1983 by Chrysalis Records.The band's songwriter/guitarist Gary Kemp realised after the release of their second album that the nightclub audience they initially wanted to attract had lost interest in them in part because of the band's transition from dance music to pop.
The Singles Collection is a greatest hits album by English pop band Spandau Ballet, released on 4 November 1985 by Chrysalis Records.The album peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and was certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) within six weeks of release.
Chrysalis executives were impressed with the LP, especially the tracks titled "Gold" and "True", [7] but as Kemp explained in his autobiography I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau, the band's manager insisted that a different song should be the "Lifeline" follow-up. "[Steve] Dagger didn't want to go with a ballad next and recommended another ...