Spandau Ballet were pretty much only known in the U.S. for their 1983 worldwide smash ballad “True,” but the band got their start in the idealized artpop scene of the New Romantic movement. The band ...

Spandau Ballet percolated up from a bubble and toil of glitter and glam called the Blitz Club, a postpunk haven that thrived in London’s Covent Garden in the late Seventies. They weren’t the only band ...

As part of NPR's series "One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs," BBC Radio legend Zane Lowe nominates "Gold" by Spandau Ballet. The group is mostly... Zane Lowe On The Power Of Spandau Ballet Last week, ...

In 1984, a 40-second clip in a John Hughes film made Spandau Ballet’s imprint on popular culture permanent. The British new-wave band’s most famous tune, “True,” achieved broad popularity in 1983, but ...

As the beat began to thump and the curtains opened on Spandau Ballet’s return to Los Angeles on Saturday, a question loomed: Could the chart-topping U.K. new wave band that helped usher in the MTV era ...

The synthesizer and saxophone soared. Saccharine ballads and slick pop anthems were in ample supply. Folks dressed up like Crockett and Tubbs from “Miami Vice.” There was an old-school MTV sheen to ...

The Brit-pop invasion of MTV in the early 1980s had its roots in London’s New Romantic movement, where bands merged dance beats, synthesizers and fashion. When one of the movement’s biggest names, ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The A.V. Club atones for its sins of omission, recommending the best movies of the year ...

The last time Spandau Ballet performed in Orange County was 1985 at Irvine Meadows. On Wednesday night in Costa Mesa, singer Tony Hadley recalled feeling “so euphoric because we’d never done an open ...

Last week,Morning Editionbegan a series called One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs. Each segment focuses on a musician or band whose career in the United States is defined by a single monster hit, and ...