(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 22 - After many successes and a series of struggles, causes, separations and reunions that are much longer than the group's history, Spandau Ballet celebrates forty years since the signing of the first contract with a GreatestHits consisting of a box of three CDs or double vinyls that also contain the unreleased cover of "The Boxer" by Simon & Garfunkel.
Iltutto will go on sale starting November 27.
Their golden season lasted about ten years, more or less until 1989: then quarrels and tensions prevailed over the music: today Tony Hadley, the singer with the big voice, seems to be the embodied son of Tom Jones;
Gary Kemp, author of all the bands as well as a guitarist with some acting evidence also shared with his bassist brother Martin, is the only one with a career: he plays in the superband "Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets", the project that the drummer has dedicated to the season of PinkFloyd with Syd Barrett.
Attempts at reunion have been various but lasted only a short time, as on the other hand last year's attempt to get back together with Hadley's replacement, Ross William Wild, lasted.
But if there is a country where Spandau Ballet have never been forgotten is Italy where they remain an important moment in the coming-of-age novel of a generation: an emotion that revolves around songs like "True", "Through The Barricades", " Lifeline "," Gold "," Only When You Leave "," I'll Fly For You "and which freed itself from that aura of glossy artificiality thanks to the docu film" Soul Boys of the Western World ", which, presented a few years ago , tells with realism the parable of a group of friends who lived a decade as a pop star and then failed to remain united after the great success.
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