Nine more Top Ten hits followed, including classics such as True, Gold and Through The Barricades. “I remember walking into a pub in Battersea and it was playing on the jukebox.
Their first single, To Cut A Long Story Short, went Top 5. Spandau Ballet – five working-class lads from North London, including acting brothers Gary and Martin Kemp – were snapped up by Chrysalis in 1980 after playing just eight gigs. Over the years I met too many champagne socialists. “When I was 14, I attended Communist Party rallies. “My uncle was such a staunch Communist he wanted to live in Moscow,” Tony recalls. Unlike most pop stars, affable Hadley, 62, has never done drugs, doesn’t mind being the butt of a joke and is proud to be known as “Tory Tone” – even though his printworker family were hardcore militants. The New Romantic pin-up is an Old Romantic now. Now in his fifth decade of fame, “The Voice of Spandau Ballet” acknowledges “That’s going to happen a lot more.” The big man, just shy of 6ft 4, laughs heartily. “I said, ‘Sure, for your mum?’ She replied, ‘No, for my grandmother’.” “I think of myself as a ‘Conservative Communist’ – I believe everybody’s equal but let’s make a few bob.”Īlthough when I mention Jeremy Hunt’s tax hikes, he groans and says simply, “Don’t get me started.”
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