Behind The Vinyl: "True" with Spandau Ballet
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- čas přidán 25. 01. 2015
- Tony Hadley and Martin Kemp sit down and listen to their hit "True" and discuss the process in making the song as they go Behind The Vinyl.
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One of the most beautiful songs ever written in history ..
Mikey' Michael agreed.
He went from a Cantina to a Jaguar. This much is true.
@@AquaCarb Fake news! It was a Cortina ;-)
Masterpiece.
Back when I was 15, I cycled a 10 mile round trip to buy this masterpiece. On the last half mile, I turned a corner and a gust of wind blew the record bag, which was hanging on my handlebars, into the front wheel of my bike and broke my new purchase in half. I was obviously devastated. The following week, I found enough money to do the cycle trip again back to the shop, but this time I bought the 12" single, and was more careful getting it home! I still have that record today, with all my other records I bought in my youth and, believe me, they sound just as good today as they did back in the 80's. With a decent record deck they can actually sound alot better than the CD equivalent.
Wow!
That story is an inspiration for a short film. May I borrow it?
@@laurenduvall8547 I would love to see that!!
That’s fabulous!
Remember those days, our bikes took us to our dreams
Spandau ballet is such a unique band, they really got their own sound.
One of the greatest songs ever written. Absolutely love the vibe between Tony and Martin, I could listen to the two of the nattering all night.
True is one of the great ballads of the eighties and there were many.
Martin Kemp is still a heartthrob! Love this session of them just remembering. 80s kids rule!
Anyone still loving this tune in december 2019?
Absolutely!
case o beer and sing star
January 2020
Grew up listening to this band love them
also in January 2020
Love spandau ballet in the eighties love them still now in2024. God i wished i went and saw them when they came to Melbourne. Never get that chance again because THEY'RE NOT SPEAKING!!😢
Nice to see Tony and Martin together again...great song!
Joe Candela This was recorded years before the break up in 2017.
My mom had the 45 of this song. She would put it on and hit memory repeat on the record player and listen to it non-stop for 5-6 hours! It was a great song then, and its a great song now.
These gentlemen aged beautifully
I feel sorry for those who have never opened a vinyl record, smelled it, studied it from front to back while listening and hanging on to every note.
True and Especially " Code of Love " meant the world to me .
Now at 55 , I still play Code of Love like I'm hearing it for the first time !
That is such a beautiful song ❤🙏🏾🔥🔥🔥 You guys " Thanks ! " ❤👍🏾✌🏾
Growing up as a little kid in the 80's, this is one of those songs that instantly brings Me back to those times when I hear it.
Made it to your concert, Tony. Fun to look back and reminisce growing up in our 20's. Where has the time gone, lol?
Nostalgic for the 80s and when life was simpler. This song takes me back. I still listen to it in my car and just drive. I was 8 in 83. 44 now, I miss the good ole days.
It's a great song that you never get tired of hearing it. It's a fuckin awesome song and vocals
I got the album when it came out. Tony, if your listening... I still love every song. Thank you, Spandau Ballet!
Spandau and True one of the 80s highlights and indeed the track that kept me stuck in the 80s.
Spectacular tune. What a vocal performance.
This is one of the best songs of the 1980's and that decade was known for great music. It's a very honest song. There is no pretense. It's just a relaxing, beautiful, happy song.
Actually, that decade is notorious as the worst of every decade from the sixties, haha!
This song always takes me back to every high school dance in the 80s. Even though I never got to slow dance with the girl I fancied, I still remember those times. Those verses always hit me right in the heart, especially the second one.
Tony sat in with our band at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas and sang an Elvis tune with our band, to this day he remains one of my favorite singers ever! What a great voice and nice guy! :)
What Elvis tune was that? Curious!
Please upload that vid! He's amazing!
I'm with Tony, I love the synth stuff. To cut a long story short, was fantastic because of the music genre when it came out. I loved all the riffs back then, and this was amazing yet so simple. i still love playing it.
I know True was massive, but it was a bit middle of the road for me.
good to see these two together.
Love how they have a good relationship with each other after all these years.
Things actually went pretty bad, I do not think everyone in the team gets on with each other famously.
I think they went to court about 15 years ago over the royalties/who wrote the songs. Looks like they’ve sorted it out now
Shit, I didn't know that...hope they got along now
jayscoding2 They‘re not talking to Tony any longer since he left in 2017. They said on TV that he wasn‘t welcome anymore. Martin made some vile comments about his old friend. The had a new singer in 2018, but he was sacked by Gary. The boy himself heard the news from Martin on the tele. Steve was not pretty amused about all this. So relations are pretty much cooled down at this moment.
Music is a time machine...You can listen to a song and it will instantly take You back in time..if only in Your memory. Good stuff!!
I agree 100%
Lovin it in 2020
Don’t be cruel guys to yourselves, love the video, it was so 80’s, you were gorgeous in those suits, perfection👌
Lovely song🎹🎼😎
I love this song - A timeless classic
That sax solo 🎷🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Tony Hadley has aged very well!
What, no love for Martin Kemp? 😉
Tony's gorgeous!
@@chiefscheider Nah! Maybe Martin joined the band because of his looks, but Tony has always been the pretty boy.
Tony hadley: "yeah mate we used to buy records and look at all the writing on the cover and yeah it was good chat I'm not too nostalgic bout it tho"
Tony Hadley fans: "looking at the liners of a freshly pressed vinyl was like a right of passage for the youth and that sense of belonging and kinship with these pertinent albums of history shaped and molded these generations more so than anything else happening at the time. Sometimes I pull out my first vinyl and weep for three days straight as I remember the joy and exuberance of my youthful attention poring over these works. The youth of today have nothing like this to hold them steadfast against the weather's of life, society and modern day slavery. It is no suprise to me that we struggle deeply with mental illness in these following generations. Vinyl records and the ritualistic means of consuming them is the only tried and test form of antidepressant. We need to go back to our roots as the human race and embrace vinyl once again"
Yeah well you know, boomers be booming. Xers be x'ing. (i'm X but late, i only knew cassettes and cd's and then mp3s happened and well..i haven't bought a physical album in 20 years now)
Older generations always want to think their generation and youth was best. It'll never change. Zoomers in 40 years will be like "look at this shit, not one single cellphone in the crowd, what a shame... people used to have to hold this physical thing in their hands to record their experiences of life, now it's all recorded straight from your retina in your memory bank and there's really something that's been lost when we lost that physical link to technology, younger generations will never know the thrill of going home and having to upload your shitty quality video on the internet to show everyone you'd been to that show., hell people dont even have to go to shows anymore, they can stream it directly from some android proxy as if they were physically there, the whole physical proximity, the thrill of experiencing something with others is lost, we really lived in the best time but now it's gone forever."
The song is so timeless that it's been included in numerous movies ("Sixteen Candles" and "The Wedding Singer", to name a few), sampled by PM Dawn on "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", and appeared on numerous 80's compilations. Indeed, a beautiful song!
I think it was featured in "Charlie's Angels" too.
@@57highland Yes, it was. "50 First Dates", the list goes on and on.
So many memories to this song. 🥰 Absolutely loved Spandu Ballet then & now.
Spandau Ballet, my all time favorite band, I became a drummer around that time (1983) and when I saw John Kebble using the Simmons SDSV electronic drums I said I got to have one of those and guess what!
I got one in white too, still have it today, 35 years and counting.
This song meant something in million of people's hearts.
This was song that was top of the charts the day I was born.
Probably the first MTV video I had ever seen. These guys still look great 30+ years later!
Martin Kemp is always beautiful
C C It‘s only the package, there‘s not much in it. No opinion of his own.
Well produced music never goes bad
They seemed to get along so well. What a shame they fell out again. Must have hurt a lot.
Una obra maestra se elegancia y clase, un clásico., y con la voz inigualable de Tony Hadley.
52 turning 53 sigh. Im not a sentimentalist but... this hit me in the heart when I was a kid. Every girl was beautiful to me with this song played
I disagree with Tony, I love the video for this song. There was nothing fancy about it, it was visually pleasing, sounded incredible, and y'all looked sharp in your suits!! I don't think the video was rubbish at all. Sometimes simple is Best!! Timeless Classic that will Never Die!!
Iconic song. Brings me back.
Amazing song and great to see these 2 guys together again 🙂
I love these stories.... Nothing like buying a vinyl records... I remember when some of them were like 7 US dollars!
This is an interesting concept for a tv show
+david stanley agreed, so many bands/artists from that time could feature here
+PA28 Send them my way and we'll feature them. I'm the director/creator of the series.
wow, ok the list could be endless, Boy George, Chris and Neil PSB, Simon Le Bon, Bob Geldof, so many
This was my teenage years. Loved this and you two and Spandau Ballet.
True is so beautiful words and music. It’s my favorite song back in the eighties in high school to today 2020!
one more shinning example of a band that wandered outside their comfort zone and struck gold. i bought a ticket to the world, but now i’ve come back again... a lesson for all creatives. the thing is that this style of track gave certain membbers a lot of freedom to shine with their talents and they took full advantage of the opportunity (and recognized it as such)
Still love this song...Timeless!
I remember our 9th grade band played a version of this in spring concert.
Absolutely love this song. Timeless.
80s memory music at its best. Shades of Roxy Music, so smooth, classy and cool. I wanted the suits they wore in the video!
we all should thank spandau ballet especially gary kemp for this song.
Anna Paulina Castillo And Tony Hadley for singing it the way he did.
*Here in 2020!*
🙋🏻♀️
If this is the only song you're remembered for, then good on ya, this is a "true" classic that transcends time. Thank you for this awesome focal point song in a lot of peoples memory!
I remember the 80s video. I was around 20 when I came out. I remember liking it. They used to play them at the night clubs. Of all the songs, my most favourite Spandau Ballet song was “I’ll Fly For You”. It wasn’t even a great hit, but it was the song I gravitated towards.
My favorite 80s band..till now im still watching spandau ballet music videos,,
An Incredible and Extraordinary Master Piece of Art in the Industry of the Music.
legends
I’m 31 and this song takes me back to MY childhood in the 90s because it was just as popular of a song then
Hell, it’s popular now.
I watched the music video for it just a week ago ;my first time watching.. those Kemp brothers were super hot then and still handsome now !!
See!! Now why can't they get along like this now (in 2021)?? Life's short and we're surrounded by something that makes it shorter; I wish they'd just get it together and find some common ground again!!
The FOLLOWING of the "Folk-Process" is EXACTLY Why I've stuck with VINYL to THIS day.
This song makes me want to take a bubble bath.
Wow...just Awesome to see those 2 hanging Out:)
One of my favorite songs from the 80s
Is very entertaining, to get the true meaning behind the tune, from the band!
So right Tony on radio now is a playlist same song same time everyday, back then it was the djs choice and the odd listener asking for something to be played .. happy times
Classiest men ever!!
I absolutely love the video! It brings back a lot of memories and connects to critical points in my life.
Beautiful song I believe it was in the 80's when music was pretty sad.
Great format. Stumbled upon almost by accident. Perfekt Audio, the record player playing, opposite seats, these mics... and the guests. Awesome content. Should have much more subscribers and got another one from now on.
I LOVE the video!! 🥰
this is awesome!
It is a great great song...end of.
Ahhh the new romantics movement. So much great music. I still love this song. It's like wrapping yourself up in a soft comfortable blanket and just sinking into it with reckless surrender.
One of my very favorite songs!
Great video!
Gorgeous production on this song...best of the 80s!!
Adoro essa música 🥰
Thanx so much!!!
My favorite song for lifetime. I dance this song with my high school sweetheart and kiss her for the first time, and after 30 years I still remember that moment. never forgot the moment. but she did forgot all about it ... lol.
Martin looks so much handsome today than 20 years ago !
He was frickin hot in the eighties and now.❤❤😛
So true. Loved the whole process of vinyl. Different sound and reading the cover as you listened. The war of the worlds vinyl. Enough said. Briiliant
Spandau Ballet
Synthpop = best
New Wave = great
True = classic
Pop = good
I always thought these guys were cool....the song gold is another gem!
Thanks for sharing this docu . Takes me back to the 80's - Going though a divorce - New Girlfriend ! - I would have married her if she had not gone back to her fiance - This said everything I wanted to tell Paula ?
All those memories come flooding back listening -I thought the other Kemp brother who wrote it would have been explaining things here - we all know of the bad blood between them at one time!!!
Any way - Still interesting - Thanks for sharing!
Steve Birks hope things are better dude
The video was great
I remember those days, getting a new album and taking it home and reading all the notes and stuff. Great times.
So much great music from the 80s. I'm a metal head through and through but everything from the 80's was awesome.
Anyone still bumping this in the 20's??
When a band make a song like that, they don't need to do anything else. We never get tired of it.
Beautiful song, still have the 45 on vinyl
this tune has a great bass line.. ..yeah..true was the game changer... You could said the same thing with the styx....babe. Congrats guys, the rest is history. From a cortina to a lovely jaguar.
I never heard bass guitar on true...only piano and sax :)
There was no bass, Martin didn't actually perform on this single.
Martin Kemp still cool handsome barstud
Man looks the same just grey hair
I appreciate the information provided by fellow Wikipedians which allows me to write this comment. Spandau Ballet's songwriter is Gary Kemp and he wrote the song 'True' at his parents' place. The band's bassist and the guy on our right in this video is Martin Kemp - Gary Kemp's younger brother (both still alive). It is, in part, a tribute to Marvin Gaye and his contribution to music. Marvin (Gaye) is mentioned in the lyrics but, yeah, I had to pay attention to catch it. Along the same line and to quote Gary Kemp straight out: "I think I wanted to write a song that was a bit like a Marvin Gaye, Al Green song, a blue-eyed soul song." Gary Kemp also says it is a song about writing a love song - "Why do I find it hard to write the next line? I want the truth to be said". This leads to the next point.
An additional inspiration is Clare Grogan, singer with the band 'Altered Images' (1979-1983, 2012). She was friends with Gary Kemp who fancied her but it was not reciprocated. She had recently given Gary Kemp a copy of 'Lolita' (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov. The verse and specific line about the seaside arms was inspired by 'Lolita' - "Take your seaside arms and write the next line".
Courtesy of my growing up with radio in the 1980s and 1990s, I have heard this song countless times. There are definitely worse songs out there but this song has had way more than its fair share of time reaching my ears. I did not buy the single or the album but may have a copy of the song on an 80s compilation somewhere. I remember picking up Spandau Ballet's 'Greatest Hits' and their 'Best Of Spandau Ballet' as compact disks at the 'HMV' store which was here in Sydney, Australia in the 1990s ('HMV' is an acronym for 'His Master's Voice'). I had just heard their songs too darn much on the radio. It is not, however, a bad song.
Tony Hadley, lead singer of Spandau Ballet... [sigh]... I mean for a guy who is "not a big, sort of, nostalgic freak", he fricking knows how to be nostalgic. And I agree with Martin Kemp here, he did not understand what Martin Kemp was getting at. Martin Kemp talked about his actual experiences and relating to the fans of whatever piece of music was on vinyl. Tony Hadley kept coming back to himself and what was going on only for him in the recording. The result? Well, none of what I found out above was revealed here except that Gary Kemp inspired or was the driving force behind the song (or something along those lines). Nah... Gary Kemp wrote it.
I generally enjoy these 'story behind the song' videos but this one was a dud. Still, it was an annoyance which prompted me to look elsewhere for the information. The Wikipedia article for the song has solid references attached to the important pieces of information. I have liked putting this comment together; if you, reader, got something out of it too then all the better.
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I was a metal kid at this time and used to make fun of this song... at the time I was barely a teenager but I grew to respect this song because it's well played and well performed...on a side note they mentioned laying vocals in the Bahamas and I can only think of compass point Studios...and it's so funny because around the same time Iron Maiden was going to the Bahamas to record peace of mind... I wonder if they used the same Studio... that would be a pretty cool and odd side note...btw these guys look great and healthy and still classy.. it shows they take care of themselves they don't look all hobo-ed out like most of our heroes from the 80s... Well wishes to all....wonder if there's one with Golden Earing...
I love this song. To piggyback back off of what Tony Hadley and Brian Kemp said about this song having soul, it is absolutely true (no pun intended). True was sampled by black artists for different projects.
Beautiful video. #subscribed