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The Music Of The 80s - Favorites, Classics And Rarities


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Let's Go Crazy is up on the third site.

 

Also up is Brent Bourgeois - Dare To Fall In Love (took me a very long time to find this rare RT classic - Brent only had one solo hit.)

 

Tina Paner? Seriously tough one to find. I'll try to look for it. I'm not sure if I can find it but I'll certainly try

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SPANDAU BALLET REUNITES

 

 

 

The five original band members - Tony Hadley, Steve Norman, John Keeble, and brothers Martin and Gary Kemp - chose HMS Belfast on the Thames, the scene of their famous 1980 gig, to announce they had buried the hatchet.

 

They will pocket an estimated £12 million for the tour, which kicks off in October with a string of British dates before heading to Europe, Asia and Australia. The band's first comeback performance will be on BBC One show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross in the coming weeks.

 

The last time fans saw the band together, they were facing off across a court room. Hadley, Norman and Keeble sued songwriter Gary Kemp for a £1 million share of the royalties, but lost. There followed years of acrimony in which they communicated solely through lawyers.

 

Hadley, the band's lead singer, continued the feud with Kemp for years but now claims to have put all differences aside. "Time is a great healer," he said. "As you can see, we are back together again and we are very happy boys.

 

"We first met in the pub, had a few beers, the stories and the anecdotes came out and we just realised we are great mates."

 

Martin added: "We are like any family - families go through troubled times sometimes and argue and get back together."

 

The tour will be a nostalgia trip for fans and the band have promised to play all of their greatest hits. Their run of chart success began in 1980 with To Cut A Long Story Short and lasted for seven years. They sold more than 25 million albums worldwide and their singles included Gold, Only When You Leave and Through The Barricades.

 

Joking about the flamboyant costumes they wore in their New Romantic heyday, Hadley said: "Before anybody asks - we're not wearing kilts, frilly shirts, our mums' blouses or anything else."

 

They may be fast approaching their 50th birthdays, but the band said they had no worries about getting in shape for a gruelling world tour. "We're fitter now. We were too hungover in the Eighties," Martin said.

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