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‘40 Years - The Greatest Hits’ - Released November 27th

Wed, October 21, 2020

SPANDAU BALLET ‘40 YEARS – THE GREATEST HITS’ - 3CD / DOUBLE VINYL / 40th ANNIVERSARY RUBY COLOURED VINYL

RELEASED 27th NOVEMBER 2020 BY REFORMATION/PARLOPHONE

Click here to pre-order the 3CD / 2 LP and Greatest Hits T-shirt through the Official Spandau Ballet Store.

40 years ago this week Spandau Ballet signed their first recording contract and within a month had released their first single ‘To Cut A Long Story Short’. ‘40 Years – The Greatest Hits’ celebrates both the band’s musical and cultural impact.

The 3CD set features all the hits, fan favourite album tracks as well as classic 12” versions, and a previously unheard version of the Simon & Garfunkel classic ‘The Boxer’ recorded in 1990 with legendary producer, arranger and film composer Michael Kamen. There is also a 2LP Greatest Hits released on 40th Anniversary Ruby Red coloured vinyl.

As the band’s critically acclaimed feature-length documentary ‘Soul Boys Of The Western World’ showed Spandau were not just about music, they were the epicenter of fashion, and youth culture, speaking for an audience who previously had no voice.

To paraphrase ‘True’ ‘and then they came back again’ firstly with the hugely successful sell-out Reformation Tour of 2009/10 and then once more with the ‘Soul Boys Of The Western World’ tour in 2014. Spandau Ballet’s legacy and cultural impact remains undeniable.

SPANDAU BALLET ‘40 YEARS – THE GREATEST HITS’ 3CD TRACK-LISTING


CD 1 – Hits       
1. To Cut a Long Story Short      
2. The Freeze      
3. Musclebound
4. Toys      
5. Glow        
6. Chant no. 1      
7. Paint Me Down      
8. Coffee Club      
9. She Loved Like Diamond      
10. Instinction      
11. Lifeline      
12. Communication      
13. Heaven is a Secret      
14. True
15. Gold      
16. Pleasure      
17. Only When You Leave      
18. I’ll Fly for You

CD 2 – Hits        
1. Highly Strung      
2. Revenge for Love      
3. Round & Round
4. Fight For Ourselves
5. Swept
6. Cross The Line
7. Through The Barricades
8. How Many Lies?     
9. Raw      
10. Be Free With your Love      
11. Crashed Into Love      
12. Empty Spaces      
13. The Boxer        
14. Once More      
15. This Is The Love      
16. Soul Boys      
17. Steal              

CD 3 - 12” Mixes      
1. To Cut A Long Story Short      
2. The Freeze      
3. Glow        
4. Chant No 1        
5. Paint Me Down        
6. Lifeline
7. Communication        
8. Gold        
9. Fight for Ourselves        
10. Cross The Line        
11. Raw