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To Cut A Long Story Short (Top of the Pops 13/11/80)
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- We're celebrating 40 Years of Spandau Ballet. Watch 'To Cut A Long Story Short' performed on BBC Top of The Pops on 13th November 1980!
"On its first week of release “To Cut a Long Story Short “ entered the UK singles charts at No.89, but the second week it jumped up to No.43 and the band were selected to appear on Top of the Pops for the first time. The show was broadcast live 40 years ago today."
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Spandau Ballet are one of Britain’s great iconic bands having sold over 25 million records, scored numerous multi-platinum albums and amassed 23 hit singles across the globe since their humble beginnings as a group of friends with dreams of stardom in the late 1970s. It wasn’t long before they became fully-fledged members of the iconic Blitz Club scene and established themselves as one of the super-groups of the 80s.
The band's classic line-up features brothers Gary and Martin Kemp on guitars, vocalist Tony Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble.
Spandau Ballet’s hits include Gold, True, To Cut A Long Story Short, Through The Barricades and many more.
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Lyrics:
Soldier is turning
See him through white light
Running from strangers
See you in the valley
War upon war
Heat upon heat
To cut a long story short
I lost my mind
Sitting on a park bench
Years away from fighting
To cut a long story short
I lost my mind
Standing in the dark
Oh I was waiting for man to come
I am beautiful and clean
And so very very young
To be standing in the street
To be taken by someone
Questions questions
Give me no answers
That's all they ever give me
Questions questions
Oh look at the strange boy
He finds it hard existing
To cut a long story short
I lost my mind
#SB40 #SpandauBallet #80s
We used to follow the Spandau lads all over London, we was outside Martin Kemp's Hampstead house just screaming kids outside his gaff! London 4 ever! UK 🇬🇧
Tony’s voice is majestic. So recognisable
Yes, his voice is one of the most incredible of that era of musicians. Only George Michael had the greater voice. Tony's voice today is still so beautiful to listen to.
They were the talk of our school after we’d first seen them on TOTP. ‘Did you see that Scottish band last night?’ 😆
;D love it..the Scott's band !
How did they get the time off from the shortbread factory?
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Lyrics by Gary Kemp
It must have been fantastic to have grown up in the Eighties, hearing all this fantastic music happening all the time! Oh yeah, I was there, it happened, it was fantastic, it really happened, you never knew that when you'd turn the radio on that you'd hear something like this for the first time ever (just like everybody else). Best time to grow up ever.
I'm telling you I remember this material coming out when I was about 10 and we'd discuss it in school the next day. There was genuine excitement....I wanted a Prophet 5 synthesizer and coudn't understand why my parents wouldn't buy me one lol.
It was!! Amazing
We saw it every week, enjoyed it, and thought it would get better.. Always looked for a new sound. Ska, Reggae, post punk, Synth, Indie, Goth, early House. Depeche Mode, Human League, The Cure, The Smiths, The Mission, Sisters of Mercy, SExpress, MARRS.. And then ther were class acts everywhere. Queen, U2, Simple Minds, Bon Jovi, Guns n Roses, The Police, Sting.. Duran Duran, Dire Straits, Genesis, KISS, Level 42, Yazoo, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and the list is long. Michael Jackson and Madonna and all the rest of the mega pop of the day around as well.
All came after 1980 ..80 was a hangover from the u0s . @@TimDye-by2sw
New Romantics forever
Tony’s hair is on point 👍🏾
A young Tony Hadley is cool cool !!!
This was the first Spandau Ballet song I'd ever heard. EPIC!!
It was their first hit and it reached #5 when it debuted
I wish they had stayed like this.
You can’t beat the 80’s, proper discos, music, cheap beer!!!
1980 Samuel Smiths bitter was 49p a pint in my local. Happy days 😊
Back when music was music.
I wish it was still the 80's everyday!!!!!
This was before trashy so-called fake singers took over the air waves with political nonsense
@@paul8926 music has always been political
@@paul8926 What are you talking about? There was TONS of political music in the charts back then!
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Tony looks so handsome there!
Forty years ago where has the time gone.
Time past quily
Tony is so beautiful and clean and very-very young!!!!💖💖💖💖💖
Tony was Is Always Gorgeous 💙💙💙💙💙
I remember watching this at the time and thinking "Wow, brilliant look and sound".❤
I can only imagine... It was 1980, the first year of the decade, there were still clear traces from the 70's in music and fashion and have this new sound/image suddenly blast out for the first time, chills....
Kick ass song👍🏻
One of my favorite 80's classic new wave/synth pop hits
Me too....
@@agnesbonnetain8656 I grew up listening to Spandau Ballet classic hits
@@robertjohngunabe7771 I was 15 years old in France when I heard it on the radio and on TV with the hit "True",I immediatly liked the beautiful voice of Tony Hadley and the saxo of Steve.....and after their albums ....
43 years ago......... Omg makes me feel so old .Where did all those years go?
Tony
In their 20s! Thats where it all started from! New romantics at their best. Lucky i was born in that period! Saw them in 1985....and in the latest tour 2010/15, still great memories!
Tony was only 19 a few months before this performance.
@@ajs41 20 and a half years......Sorry.......He was born on June 2,1960.
They started as new wave before turning to new romantic
what a band,what a tune you just cant fault them,no surrender
I remember all us girls talking about this in school next day!
I am so sorry
What a strange song, brilliant Islington N1 band 👏. Done well! UK 🇬🇧
Fell in love with the band the first moment I heard this song - classic of the time & for me, really set them above anything else that was around!
No way. Adam Ant was just getting started and Duran Duran.
Top 10 80s synth wave
One of the best 80's songs.
Tony was only 20 when this came out. But very gorgeous & very tall
The Kemps legends in their own minds🤫🤫🤫🤫
Tony was the reaL DEAL 👍👍👍👍
Slightly before my time as I was born in 83 but I bloody love the 80s and this song personifies everything about the 80s! I want this played at my funeral! Which the song is actually accurate of my life hahaha xx
She's right, you can get stuck in whenever you want.
I HIGHLY prefer this reformation and the freeze over true and gold .
Best song they ever did. 19 then . Jesus, time sure does fly.
@billynation Welcome I’m now 20 and began listening to them like at 13 / 14 years of age 😆 I have no idea what I had going around in my head then but yeah at least I got introduced to a lot of great music.
Very beautiful band very beautiful song and perfect voice from Tony.
It was good to be young then...
There is something so raw about this song which makes it great...
I remember watching this on top of the pops...fuck I'm old..
I was so in love with this era Tony
I'm sitting on that park bench still 40 years? Wow
Happy memories. Time flies.
First time I see them Top of pops I thought they were Scottish with all tartan on .but they are one of my favorite bands .miss those days .
They were such beautiful men. I’m officially in love with this era Steve Norman, he’s a work of art and unbelievably cool in this and the promo for this song ❤
fabulous 80s!
Comparing this to today's music is like comparing contentedness to nuclear war.
Best songs ever
God Steve, Gary all the boys were gorgeous 😍! My old Manor Holloway, N7 London! UK 🇬🇧
Amazing! So young men doing history! 😍
thanks for the inspiration, Spandau.
Extraordinarily beautiful song:)🥇🙏
Martin Kemp's bass line on this song is unreal, when Tony Hadley hits that note 2:50 is epic
It's not live you know
as a bassist i’d say it’s pretty simple
What wonderful times!
Luv it and I was only 3 years old hahaha.
2021 good music
super song and fantastic Band 😍✌🎶❤🎸❤🎸
I like the lead singers choice to have a fairly conservative image. It was original at the time.
Best bands ever 👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍 of the 80s for ever
Classic Masterpiece from a Great / Unique band
Kilts are serious style
Brilliant.
"...I am beautiful and clean
and so very very young..."
I had no idea what this dong was about but i always thought that was tge kost relatable verse at the time.
Proper new romantics this
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Cool.
Sou muito fã de vocês spandau ballete
British music
Musica visiante hehe ❤️🇦🇷
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Wooow ☺️
Lui...un grande
New Romantic ❤🎉
Música Linda show
Top 5 Five Single Hitsongs Billboard Chart Tony Hadley Lead Vocalist Gary Kemp Backing Vocalist Songwriter Keyboard Synthpunkwaves Pianist Guitarist Spandau Ballet English British 🇬🇧 Band New Waves Eighties 80s Nineties 90s
Mejor banda de todos los tiempos😍
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Thought I'd lost this song forever ,I seem to have misremembered the lyrics,unless someone else remembers the lyrics "we go walking in two by two"?
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Abraços parabéns pelo vídeo
This ..Planet Earth and Are Friends Electric had a huge impact on me as a 14yr old!! Shame how quickley Spandau and DD became pop
Quanto era BELLO TONY
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Love this early 80s stuff, then in the second half of the decade three names came along and trashed music and it's never really been the same since - those names: Stock, Aitken & Waterman, biggest disaster ever to hit the music industry.
Did like Frankie and Grace Jones to be fair ;)
BUT POINT TAKEN 🎸🎸
Say I'm your number one is a very well produced song, it is old school compared to some 80s stuff but the eighties themselves are mostly behind, compared to the seventies so you start regressing till you place the peak of music in 1979 or the 1920s depending on your criteria.
Say i'm ypur no.1 is a fantastic song, so is alter the love has gone. Even they delivered at least these two, despite the Rick Astley/ Kiley Minogue stuff....compared to todays so_called music even these are "masterpieces".... Lol.
F*ckin' spot on!
@@zarcon85 Truth be told.
Their music unique and different song from their whole catalogue. It's a style all of It's own.
Pity Tony fell out with the band. A real shame.
I'll Fly for You and Through The Barricades had a more sophistipop jazzy sound.
A very unique voice, Tony Hadley.
Didn't mind this early stuff.But by the time True came out I needed a sick bucket.
Love the song, but what exactly referring to when he says waiting in the park waiting for the man to come
I was reflecting on how much I hated 1980, but this. *This*
Afterwards, I went up, but this will never leave me.
5 Império
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Think this was their 1st ToTP
Tony his voice is tenor
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Proof a man can wear his hand on his waist and still look masculine; and it helps to reinforce the gay elements in the lyrics. Steve Norman looks like he just fell from Mt. Olympus.
The lyrics were quite controversial at the time. Standing in the dark, Oh, I was waiting for a man to come, I am beautiful and clean, And so very, very young, To be standing in the street. To be taken by someone
Cool! This is clearly before they adopted the corporate CEO look. 😂
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At the start they were the coolest band ...nowadays people think they are naff ..
Marvellous. One of the 3 yop songs of the spans for me, the freeze, paint me down and(?) Lifeline cos of the positiv vibe but i'd rather been choosing pleasur, maybe.. i love their soul funk pioneering experimenting as we can hear on Diamond. It was not the sucess they've expected and the follow uo True is a remarkable blue-eyed-soul work ,a master piece.. but i'd love them to follow this revolution that is Diamond even the big atmospheric suit of missionary, pharaoh and science &...is an original desbraving of new forms of sounds and songwriting. Love them to be more adventurous and not so conservative. That will get us a superior band in the follow up of the pioniring of the talking heads or simple minds at that time. More eclectic and more open minded!
I think they were miming to backing bands.
Did they use session musicians to play their cuts?
I prefer Steve in pants......
Martin its a bass! You're meant to pull not strum!
I guess we now know where Franz Ferdinand got their sound from