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"Chant No. 1" was recorded at Utopia Studios in Primrose Hill with Richard James Burgess producing. [6] Burgess had just developed the Simmons SDS-V electronic drum kit, which Spandau Ballet drummer John Keeble used on "Chant No. 1", making it one of the first recordings to use the new alternative to acoustic drums.
"Only When You Leave" is a song by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released as the first single from their fourth album Parade. It peaked at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and made the top 10 in several other countries but only reached number 34 in the US, where it was their last song to appear on the Billboard Hot 100.
The band later spent time in Dublin, [7] [d] and Kemp began writing the songs for their next album there over the course of six months in 1985. [8] [e] After spending an evening reading about the history of The Troubles, he was again consumed by the political climate in Belfast and his memory of the visit to Kidso's grave.
As Spandau Ballet's first album, Journeys to Glory, was being completed, the band's guitarist/songwriter Gary Kemp noticed a resurgence of funk in the clubs around Soho that he wanted to emulate in his own songwriting, [1] and an encounter with the British jazz-funk group Beggar and Co led to their collaboration on one of his first attempts to do so, "Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On ...
Don’t be so quick to walk away because Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body” continues to be a fan favorite more than 20 years after it was released. “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk
"Highly Strung" is a song by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released as the third single from the 1984 album Parade. In their native UK , the song reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart , and critics had a variety of responses to it.
The song received mixed reviews upon its release. Rip It Up's Mark Phillips wrote, "Lush and cleverly constructed, this song is a winner." [12] Betty Page of Record Mirror complained, "And how's this for spectacularly uninspired lyrics: 'And when you sing to me/the shoo-bee-doo's you sing so well'."
Nine Sinatra Songs is Tharp's second foray into choreographing to Sinatra's songs. Her first attempt was One More Frank (1976), made for an American Ballet Theatre gala, danced by her and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The work was booed by the audience as it did not contain any virtuosic steps expected from Baryshnikov. [1] [2]