Spandau Ballet - True!!! Huh huh huh hu-uh huh! One of The Greatest Ballads Ever Created!

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"True" is a popular song by the British band Spandau Ballet. It was released as a single in 1983 and later included on their third studio album, also titled "True." The song was written by band members Gary Kemp and Steve Norman.
"True" is a romantic ballad that features a smooth and soulful sound. It became one of Spandau Ballet's biggest hits and is often considered their signature song. The song's lyrics express a heartfelt and sincere declaration of love, with the chorus proclaiming, "I know this much is true."
The track's instrumental arrangement includes a prominent saxophone solo performed by Steve Norman, which became one of the most memorable aspects of the song. "True" achieved significant success, reaching the top of the charts in several countries, including the United Kingdom. It has since become a timeless classic and is frequently played on radio stations and featured in various forms of media.

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@robynmurray7421 10 ай бұрын

Grown men wearing hoodies and baseball caps have no right to criticise the fashion style of Spandau Ballet.

@tallytalbot3430 3 ай бұрын

There speaks an old and embittered white guy.

@marceldagenais1893 2 ай бұрын

Not to mention they probably had parachute pants in their MC Hammer period lol!

@blueinfinite5940 Ай бұрын

OH SNAP!!! 😱🤯😳

@Chalkster1 Ай бұрын

@@marceldagenais1893 yes these guys were at forefront the fashion back then

@Belluser-we1uc5cb2l Ай бұрын

@marceldagenais1893 NO they always dressed well. I miss when men were good looking back in the day and they cared about their looks and dressed well.❤

@lorianne7031 Жыл бұрын

When this song came out, it was popular on MTV and the radio. I used to hold my then 2-year-old son and dance with him. He told me he loved this song. Fast forward several decades, I've danced with my grandson to this song!! THis is the sound of my soul! Love it.

@Mousquetaire-du-Roi 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that, its really lovely to hear!

@thanku7x77 2 күн бұрын

I rocked my babies and danced them around to this also ❤❤❤

@tonylyons7711 22 сағат бұрын

That intro has been sampled by everyone and his dog..An 80s classic .❤

@JFinSD2 10 ай бұрын

If nothing else....these guys were SHARP DRESSERS. And th song was SMOOOOOOTH!

@kylewoolsey6635 7 күн бұрын

To be cool and aloof was the aesthetic of choice in the 80s. "Gold" was another good one.

@jimaccosted9328 Жыл бұрын

My man lookin' fresh in that 80's suit . . .CLEAN! Today artists look like they were attacked by Wal Mart

@glennherron9499 Жыл бұрын

It's not the 80's without Spandau Ballet

@tbay 7 ай бұрын

That song was number one in 21 countries.

@fishouttawtr 7 ай бұрын

If y'all didn't talk and giggle so much, you'd realize he gave props to Marvin Gaye In this song! SPAN- DOW!

@GrimrDirge Жыл бұрын

In the 80's I just ignored this song, it was like elevator music to me. Only in the last few years have I come to appreciate how excellent it is. It's not complex, it's just well executed.

@susanmurray7654 Жыл бұрын

I remember I Am Your Flag...totally different vibe. Preceded this ballad.

@jhamler1 Жыл бұрын

Same here! I thought it was too gd light back in the 80's but now I realize it's literally a PERFECT pop song. I dunno how they did it.

@en6278 Жыл бұрын

it is very complex it incorporates so much. its not osme simple generic song it still sounds unique. People forget that this was the ORIGINAL that others have sampled. Thats why black people think it sounds familiar cause they know it from songs that stole its catchy elements. Those elements dont come around in music very often. it stands up for decades & evrybody wants to copy it.

@thomasjacques5286 Жыл бұрын

I'm 70 and when this song was out I was still clinging to the 60s and early 70s. You know Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin......now it's one of my favorite songs.

@kingeric2468 Жыл бұрын

So true

@greeneyesinfl9954 Жыл бұрын

The line "listening to Marvin all night long" is a shout out to Marvin Gaye.

@VickiBrowne-yk4co 26 күн бұрын

It's called class!

@melande-ru7ro Жыл бұрын

I loved this song when the record came out in 1983

@monilaninetynine3811 9 ай бұрын

I was 12. Have always loved it. It's literally perfect.

@mr.balloffur 9 ай бұрын

Tony Hadley is one of the greatest singers of the 80's, he still is ❤

@truckerkevthepaidtourist Жыл бұрын

Thrill in my hand and a pill on my tongue. Those lyrics always stay years on. Also listening to Marvin all night long was a nice tip of the hat to Marvin Gaye.

@TracyVoD Жыл бұрын

If you like Spandau Ballet's music you'd probably appreciate the band ABC too, especially one of these 2 songs: "The Look of Love" or "When Smokey Sings". They had quite similar styles but were still different enough to stand out in their own right.

@palebeachbum 6 ай бұрын

I totally agree. ABC is also great. I especially love their song All of My Heart.

@shannonbrown309 Жыл бұрын

Not only did PM Dawn sample this song, but the lead singer had a cameo in their video for Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.

@glenn20081965 Жыл бұрын

"One of the best songs of the 80's" Another was Something About You by Level 42.

@moodyblues1273 Жыл бұрын

I had posters of Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran all over my bedroom as a teen in the 1980s. Brings back a lot of memories.

@magaliedeconto1682 Жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful song but "Through the barricades" is a MASTERPIECE !

@kathyrizzi8754 5 ай бұрын

These guys could’ve been models in the U.K. I love this song!👍👏👏👏💙💙💙

@jabarrobbins1057 Жыл бұрын

The first part of their name is pronounced "SPAN-DOW" and this song was sampled by not only PM Dawn, but also others like Queen Pen for her song, "It's True"

@antoniosingletary2865 Жыл бұрын

Lil Wayne and Lloyd too!

@d.rayvenspencer Жыл бұрын

Ah the 80's, when it seemed like everyone gave a shoutout to Marvin and his greatness whenever they could.✌🏽☺

@xoxxobob61 Жыл бұрын

One of the Greatest POP Songs Ever written ! A True CLASSIC !

@darrinlindsey 6 ай бұрын

This is one of my all time favorite songs.

@David-qp4jq 2 ай бұрын

It's a Timeless song an iconic song

@mlknox8566 6 ай бұрын

This song represents my high school experience ❤ True hits my heart and fond memories of being a teen in the 80s.

@kangaroojack7678 Жыл бұрын

This song has played over 1 billion times one of my favorite songs of all time I still love it every time and I cry when it brings back memories

@annewoodard6803 Жыл бұрын

For me, it’s “16 Candles” all the way. 😁❤️

@randlnickel9196 21 күн бұрын

My Wedding Song From September 85

@kentinatl 4 ай бұрын

Top 10 song of the 80's

@itchyandred4131 Жыл бұрын

Can't hear this song without thinking about the movie " The wedding singer" 😂😂😂✌️

@jenniferfoster1692 Жыл бұрын

Haha, yep! I was a teen in the 80s so I automatically think of Sixteen Candles with this song, but I love The Wedding Singer & loved this song in that movie.

@ruff500 Жыл бұрын

A great movie with songs from the 80s 🙂

@msmrsro Жыл бұрын

As a teen throughout the 80s, age 12-22, I live for all things 80s. Takes me back. This song shows up in a lot of movies of the era.

@blaze1148 9 ай бұрын

Same age 😉

@ponypower8 Жыл бұрын

(From Wikipedia): "True" is a song by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released in April 1983....number one on the UK chart in April 1983 and made the top 10 in several other countries, including the US....used in films such as Sixteen Candles and 50 First Dates, as well as TV series like Modern Family...."'True' is about how difficult it is to be honest when you're trying to write a love song to someone"....the Hot 100.."True" peaked at number 4....Later in the month..Adult Contemporary chart, where it spent 22 weeks, one of them at number 1...."

@rickb3645 Жыл бұрын

The lead singer of Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley... Also appeared in the video of P.M. Dawns - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss... He's on the beach wearing a black shirt at the end of the video.

@rickb3645 Жыл бұрын

P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss. ------> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h5ucddx3yJ2smYE.html

@danielswood Жыл бұрын

You need to hear Gold!

@House0fHoot 11 ай бұрын

It’s pronounced Spandow (like bow wow wow) 👍 And back then, this was a smoochy dance song for the club 😘

@bdmention Жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: Brothers Gary (lead guitar) & Martin (bassist) acted in the film 'The Krays'. Great film.

@monilaninetynine3811 9 ай бұрын

Gary Kemp, who wrote the song, was in The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston as her publicist.

@jaquettajones 7 ай бұрын

The 80's Sophisti-Pop bands were quite the English Gentlemen. - other bands/artists in this category: ABC, Blow Monkeys, Swing Out Sister, Level 42, Bryan Ferry...

@pfcampos7041 Жыл бұрын

This song was a staple of my adolescence. Takes me back with all the feels!!❤

@phoenix-xu9xj 11 ай бұрын

Me too. Making me feel happy and sad.

@1280aheard 4 күн бұрын

Two members of this group played the English crime lord brothers The Krays in a 1990 film of the same name.

@tropenkindje1 11 ай бұрын

40 years ago I bought the album True. Still a huge fan. Saw them in concert in 2018. They are still rocking this song. Tony Hadley's voice is still powerfull. You should also react to Through the barricades, I fly for you, Gold, Chant no.1, To cut a long story short

@jacqueline4514 9 ай бұрын

One of the greats!

@roadkill7314 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely iconic! Part of the soundtrack of our lives; almost impossible not to have heard it.

@WineSippingCowboy 9 ай бұрын

40 years 🎂 Written by Gary Kemp. He plays guitar and keyboards. His brother Martin on bass guitar 🎸. He was married to Shirley, backing singer of Wham! They appear in the Wham! video Last Christmas 🎄 . John Keeble on drums. Steve Norman on sax and percussion. Tony Hadley on lead vocals. "Listening to Marvin" is a reference to the late Marvin Gaye, who was alive in that year. This song appeared 3 years later in the movie 🎥 Sixteen Candles 🕯 starring Molly Ringwald. Recorded in The Bahamas 🇧🇸. Meanwhile, The Police 🚔 recorded their final studio album in nearby Montserrat. Spandau Ballet was rising as The Police were going to break up 💔, which happened two years later, 1985. Suggested videos 📹: 1 Spandau Ballet performs Highly Strung 2 The Police performs Synchronicity 2.

@StevePaur-hf4vy 6 ай бұрын

A grim little nugget for you about the band's name. The phrase "Spandau Ballet" was coined by American GI's in World War 2. Spandau was a prison in the suburbs of Berlin and was used exclusively to house Nazi who were convicted of war crimes in the years after the war. The last Nazi prisoner died in 1987 and he was the sole prisoner 20+ years. The prison was demolished to prevent it from becoming a Nazi shrine. Some of the condemned Nazis were hanged at Spandau and the while the bodies were going thru the death process they would twitch and convulse back and forth and that's what the GI's called the Spandau Ballet. Don't know how the band got its name.

@teresah.6696 6 ай бұрын

@ 4:03 they give a node to Marvin Gaye but you guys was talking and didn't notice. One of the top 10 best songs from the '80s.

@mikepetrimoulx933 Жыл бұрын

1983, a year after graduation, cruising in my Charger, Kenwood rocking a pair of Cerwin Vega home speakers in the back seat, none of that nasty car vibration, just crisp clear sound.

@pr-tj5by 5 ай бұрын

Remember this Fab tune so well, no wonder it was Number 1 in 21 Countries.....

@jonyivre4541 3 ай бұрын

April 15, 1983

@yolandabrooksqueenofsevens Жыл бұрын

Spandau ballet oh my god they were fine ❤️ I remember seeing video a lot when MTV was showing it when I was 13 🔥

@lepoetress Жыл бұрын

Only When You Leave and Gold are bangers too

@rsccostarica Жыл бұрын

This song first was the soundtrack of the movie Sixteen candles in 1984, I think, wsy before Wedding Singer movie.

@rolandgustafsson5655 8 ай бұрын

Best song of the eighty ´s😍

@1989NickyD Жыл бұрын

Tony Hadley, the lead singer of Spandau Ballet appears (briefly) in the P.M Dawn video for 'Set Adrift...'

@GetSoberWithMe Жыл бұрын

He gave a shout-out to Marvin Gaye in this song..im sure he was a big inspiration...u can hear his soul in it just like he said

@grandy2875 Жыл бұрын

Spandau Ballet was part of the 80s New Romantics era, along with bands such as ABC, Duran Duran, Soft Cell, Culture Club, Flock Of Seagulls, Visage and Depeche Mode, to name a few...it was all about the look and the sound... and some of the music was pretty good 😊 🙃🐨🇦🇺

@debradickson7816 Жыл бұрын

Love the Spandau boys ❤ Cheers for that 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

@joshJC99 11 ай бұрын

Gary Kemp on piano played Sy Spector Whitney Houston’s agent in The Bodyguard

@user-or1ye3iz6d Жыл бұрын

"Robbie and Juuuuuliaa-haha" The Wedding Singer 😁

@bradhollinger2532 6 ай бұрын

" Listening to Marvin (Gaye) all night long " is the best line

@VickiBrowne-yk4co 26 күн бұрын

That's a matter of opinion!

@lizmagu3189 Жыл бұрын

Tony still tours, wearing his cool suits and still sounds AMAZING. Check out their song Gold. Its AMAZING as well..

@ronniearnold9165 4 ай бұрын

This track was so great, PM Dawn just had to have sampled it!

@donnagreen3626 8 ай бұрын

I was 18 in 83

@Kathiebaxter Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard only bits and pieces of this song. I love the ‘80’s signature romantic catch in the voice.

@pokeycantdance9039 3 ай бұрын

Straight form the 80's, Peace and love fam.

@danmayberry1185 Жыл бұрын

Throwing down PM Dawn like that - what a memory!

@StuartPacker Жыл бұрын

Had the best slow dance of my life, to True, in early 83 in West Pennard Village Hall. With Sue Dickens. Blissful and True x

@mysticvirgo9318 Жыл бұрын

every prom and wedding slow dance EVEAH! came out my freshmen year high school and was a complete TOTAL 180 from the music on the radio at the time (1982)

@ShawnDillon-pw8lb Ай бұрын

…fun fact. The suits that the band members were wearing was created by a then unknown designer who went on to start a iconic band: Sade Adu…

@MelissaDalehite-ey4bu 3 ай бұрын

One of my favorite songs. So glad to see you like too.😊😊😊😊😊

@007ndc Жыл бұрын

Gary Kemp of the band wtote this iconic song in his parents living room. This much is True

@susanmurray7654 Жыл бұрын

This was Princess Diana's...like favorite song. I remember that being a thing.

@shwicaz 10 ай бұрын

You need to hear "Gold" by them. That one is a banger!

@jenniferfoster1692 Жыл бұрын

Love you guys. I will say, there's no point in criticizing 80s videos, there were different things going on artistically & stylistically. That's on top of MTV opening up opportunities for film students & commercial directors to go crazy, experiment, it was like performance art even when it was silly. They pushed boundaries. The 'robotic' style you're talking about it similar to some of the 50s performers, where they were powerful singers but restrained performances, like they're 'classy', lol.

@kathleenedwards6435 11 ай бұрын

Best times ever. So glad I got to experience it as a teenager

@dominicksforza3484 7 ай бұрын

Youre all right, this is the 80's and is why its one of the best decades of music. One of you mentioned the suits, theyre all dressed to the 9's, the lead singers suit was really nice and would look as good now as it did then, IMO. A really nice ballad from a talented group.

@JamesBond-ib9tq 3 ай бұрын

60's, 70's, 80's, to mid 90's were best eras for music and went downhill after that.

@kevin982 Жыл бұрын

Tony was my father's favourite singer and he didn't have many. He wasn't a lover of music.

@davidzimmerli489 Жыл бұрын

Span-DOW Ballet

@cameronstestingart794 Жыл бұрын

Listenin to Marvin all night lo-ong! This much is true-ue! What’s not to like? Singer was great and a cutie❤🔥

@antoinettejones1573 Жыл бұрын

If you watch the video with PM Dawn the lead singer of Spandau Ballet plays a cameo.

@diannecardenas9866 Жыл бұрын

Haven't heard this song in such a long time. Brought back memories. Thanks for the reactions.

@joanfisher1079 Жыл бұрын

PM Dawn did remake this song into a rap and pop hit with a different name sampling True. This song is iconic from the 8Os featured in film, commercials, TV. Huge dance floor Ballad.😮

@TheRedStateBlue Жыл бұрын

set adrift on memory bliss.

@NikkieTwix 4 ай бұрын

One of my all time favourite songs it’s just so smooth like butter 🤣 this song will forever pop into my head on a weekly basis 🤣

@luisalbertocalla6649 Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤

@Ugly_kid_Joe Жыл бұрын

I know this much is true, You guys never fail to entertain.

@Chalkster1 Ай бұрын

Never mind PM Dawn this is the original and the best

@xanajak 11 ай бұрын

This song is part of a very funny scene in the movie Sixteen Candles.

@zrkn1 Жыл бұрын

We are all God's children, so what do people expect. We live on LOVE we die on hate.

@angelagoodwin5758 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely loved this song when it came out. It was the early 80s and the second British "invasion", (the Beatles and Stones in the 60s),and this was a vibe! For a different sound, I'd like to see you all react to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. "Breakdown", "Mary Jane's Last Dance", and "You Don't Know How It Feels" are just a few of their gems.

@karimamlal9524 Жыл бұрын

The favorite band ever is the police with STING 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@davidw7 Жыл бұрын

This song.... especially the introduction. Reminds me of the 60s song by The Association - "Cherish" as the song title. It has that kind of beat also..... If diving into the 60s... The Association had some hits also by their harmonies that stood out and test of time. Might need a creative way to react to a program they appeared as a video of the song to get approved.

@randlnickel9196 4 сағат бұрын

The changing of the guards was called a ballet

@carolynthompson3291 10 ай бұрын

Spandeau Ballet ❤🥰

@lindasalaki9404 Жыл бұрын

Great 🎵🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶❤❤❤❤❤

@mcarmenmc 2 ай бұрын

Una de las canciones más elegantes que existen. Todo un icono de los 80

@eddie_77 Жыл бұрын

And the lead singer appears on PM Dawn's music video.

@craigyeargin5332 Жыл бұрын

Know the song but never the band till now. Awesome song.

@donmorton7282 Жыл бұрын

Total 80s classic. The lead singer is briefly in the PM Dawn video towards the end.

@lindasalaki9404 Жыл бұрын

What's crazy , I would listen to Casey Kasem too ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@Baddiesc7gn Жыл бұрын

Yesssssssss. Loved them too. Still remember all of the lyrics. Span Dow ballet. MegaMega Hit. British artists. Yes, PM Dawn sampled it. I was with my 6 year old cousin, we went to see Chloe as The Little Mermaid. HIGHLY RECOMMEND FOR ALL AGES. You will never guess what she sang in the car on key. SWEET DREAMS BY THE EURYTHMICS. 6 years old. It was not even playing on the radio at the time. Terrence Trent D’Arby, remember him?