Artist	Song
Spandau Ballet	Through the Barricades
from Through the Barricades (1986)

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Led by the pure croon of chisel-cheeked frontman Tony Hadley and fed by a steady flow of hits from the pen of songwriter-in-chief Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet hit the peak of its success in 1983 with the towering singles "Gold" and "True" — the latter was a six-minute-plus soul-pop epic that paid homage to Motown and hit the #1 spot worldwide. Back in 1980, the band had rocketed to fame — draped in foppish tartan — with the synth-fizzing "To Cut a Long Story Short". Spandau Ballet's electrifying early work heads up our Next Steps.

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