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1983 unmarried past Spandau Ballet

1983 unmarried by Spandau Ballet

"Truthful"
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Artwork for vinyl releases
Single past Spandau Ballet
from the album True
B-side "Gently"
Released xv Apr 1983
Recorded October and November 1982
Studio Compass Bespeak Studios, Nassau, Bahamas
Genre Blue-eyed soul,[1] new moving ridge[two]
Length
  • iv:58 (promo 45 edit)
  • five:39 (unmarried version)
  • v:17 (music video version)
  • six:29 (anthology version)
Characterization Chrysalis
Songwriter(s) Gary Kemp
Producer(south) Jolley & Swain
Spandau Ballet singles chronology
"Communication"
(1983) 		"True"
(1983) 		"Gilded"
(1983)
Audio sample
  • file
  • help
Music video
"Truthful" on YouTube

"True" is a song past the English new wave band Spandau Ballet. It was released on 15 April 1983 as the third single from their tertiary studio anthology of the same proper name. The song was written past ring fellow member Gary Kemp.

The song was a worldwide hit, peaking at number one in the Great britain Singles Chart on 30 Apr 1983 for iv weeks,[3] condign the 6th-biggest-selling single of the year, and reaching the peak x in the weekly charts of many other countries. Information technology is Spandau Ballet's biggest hit and their only pinnacle x hitting in the U.Southward., reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in the autumn of 1983 and topping the developed contemporary chart for one calendar week.[4] In 2011, it received a BMI honor as 1 of the most played songs in US history with four million airplays.[5]

Groundwork and writing [edit]

"True" was equanimous by group leader Gary Kemp, who wrote the vocal at his parents' house while living there.[half dozen] Information technology is a six-infinitesimal (in its original album version) song that in function pays tribute to the Motown artist Marvin Gaye, who is mentioned in the lyrics, and the audio he helped to constitute.[seven] According to Kemp, "I think I wanted to write a song that was a bit like a Marvin Gaye, Al Green vocal, a blue-eyed soul vocal. It was at a time when it was me concentrating on melody first rather than the sort of riff and the groove."[1] Kemp likewise said, "'True' became a song about writing a love song. Why 'Why do I notice it difficult to write the next line? I want the truth to exist said?' Because I didn't want to write it down—considering there'due south nothing more than embarrassing."[8]

The song was partly about Kemp's platonic relationship (and unrequited love) with Altered Images vocaliser Clare Grogan. Some phrases in the lyrics (including the much-quoted reference to "seaside arms") were adapted from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, a copy of which Grogan had given Kemp.[6] The song is written in the fundamental of G major. It has a tempo of 98 BPM and a chord progression of G, Em9, CMaj9, Bm7. The vocal modulates to the key of Due east♭ major for the instrumental break, after which it re-modulates the key of G Major for the remainder of the song.[9] [x]

A notable omission of the recording is that Spandau Ballet bassist Martin Kemp did not perform on the track; a bass synthesiser was used instead. Withal, Martin Kemp appeared in the music video appearing to play guitar, while the band's guitarist, songwriter Gary Kemp, saturday at a pianoforte. Martin Kemp would play bass on the song in future live performances.

Reception and legacy [edit]

In 2009, Tim Rice wrote in The Spectator that the song was "a giant of its time and remains a standard today".[11] In 2014, Ian Gittins described it in The Guardian as a "juggernaut ability carol".[12] In 2015, Peter Larsen wrote for the Orange County Register that the band'south formula of mining "a vein of soulfulness tinged with nostalgia and romance" had "reached perfection" on the track, describing it as "the i Spandau Ballet song everyone knows... Information technology's truly a perfect song, as moving today equally ever it was."[13] Information technology has been characterised as a "karaoke staple".[14] In 2015, the song was voted by the British public every bit the nation's tenth-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.[15]

On the other hand, Guardian journalist Luke Williams referred to the song every bit "the biggest load of musical tosh ever";[sixteen] his colleague Michael Hann described it as "dreadful wine-bar soul".[17] Sean Daly of the St. Petersburg Times named "True" the worst vocal of all time,[xviii] while Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Robert Jamieson selected it as the worst ever honey vocal.[19] Information technology was too featured in the Houston Printing article, "x Songs We Never, Always Want to Hear Again, Ever".[20] Luke Williams derided the lyric, "Why do I find it difficult to write the next line?",[16] and NME included the line, "I bought a ticket to the world merely at present I've come up back again", in their "50 worst pop lyrics of all time".[21]

In 2014, the band'due south vocaliser, Tony Hadley, commented on the song and its lyrics:

I don't think "Truthful" is Spandau's best vocal—for me, "Through the Barricades" is. But "True" had some connection, and I really don't know why. It'south not a specific lyric, is it? "Head over heels when toe to toe"—sometimes you'd exist similar, "Correct, Gary, what's this about, mate?" Is it "I'k head over heels in love?" "Am I in bed because our feet are touching?" I don't know. Simply then, I suppose, we grew up on David Bowie and Roxy Music. "Virginia Plain"—what'southward that almost? Half of the Bowie songs, I couldn't tell you lot what they're about. With "True", you have to create the imagery for yourself.[eight]

In 1985, the band performed the song during Live Aid.

In 1991, the song was prominently sampled on the P.Chiliad. Dawn track "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss," which singer Gary Kemp received a writing credit for. The song was a massive worldwide striking, peaking at #ane on the Billboard Hot 100 that November, and having the unique stardom of being the first #i vocal after Billboard updated its metrics to include airplay from Nielsen SoundScan.

A new mix by Tony Swain and Gary Kemp was released in 2002 on the compilation anthology Reformation. On 30 April 2008, the single celebrated its 25th anniversary, and in honour, EMI released a brand new True EP on 5 May 2008, which included the original single, the new mix plant on Reformation, and the remastered anthology version, plus alive recordings of "Truthful" and "Gold" from the concluding testify of the group's 1983 tour at Sadler'due south Wells.

Runway listing [edit]

vii": Chrysalis / SPAN1 (UK) [edit]

Side one
  1. "True" – v:40
Side two
  1. "Lifeline (Edited Remix for U.S.A.)" – three:34

7": Chrysalis / VS4 42720 (US) [edit]

Side one
  1. "Truthful" – 5:xl
Side ii
  1. "Gently" – 4:01

12": Chrysalis / SPANX1 (Britain) [edit]

Side 1
  1. "Truthful" – half dozen:xxx
Side two
  1. "Lifeline (Remix for U.s.a.A.)" – v:15
  2. "Lifeline (A Capella)" – 2:01

1991 CD: Chrysalis / CHSCD 3793 (UK) [edit]

  1. "True (Edit)" – 5:36
  2. "Lifeline (Edited Remix)" – three:39
  3. "Heaven is a Undercover" – four:24
  4. "Pleasure" – 3:xxx

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Encounter also [edit]

  • List of number-one singles of 1983 (Canada)
  • List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s
  • List of Billboard Developed Contemporary number ones of 1983

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External links [edit]

  • "True" Official Music Video on YouTube

mccraywhards.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_(Spandau_Ballet_song)

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