(New Wave, Synthpop, New Romantic) Spandau Ballet - The Story: The Very Best Of (Deluxe Edition) [2CD] - 2014, MP3, 320 kbps

01. To Cut A Long Story Short (2010 Remastered Version)
02. The Freeze (2010 Remastered Version)
03. Musclebound (2010 Remastered Version)
04. Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) [2010 Remastered Version]
05. Instinction (2010 Remastered Version)
06. Lifeline (2003 Remastered Version)
07. Communication (2003 Remastered Version)
08. True
09. Gold
10. Only When You Leave (2010 Remastered Version)
11. I'll Fly For You (2010 Remastered Version)
12. Highly Strung (2010 Remastered Version)
13. Round And Round (Single Version) [2010 Remastered Version]
14. Fight For Ourselves
15. Through The Barricades
16. Once More
17. This Is The Love
18. Steal
19. Soul Boy

1. Confused (2010 Remastered Version)
2. Toys (2010 Remastered Version)
3. Mandolin (2010 Remastered Version)
4. Age Of Blows (2010 Remastered Version)
5. Glow (2010 Remastered Version)
6. Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) [Remix] [2010 Remastered Version]
7. Pharaoh (2010 Remastered Version)
8. Paint Me Down (2010 Remastered Version)
9. She Loved Like Diamond (2010 Remastered Version)
10. Code Of Love (2003 Remastered Version)
11. Pleasure (2003 Remastered Version)
12. I'll Fly For You (Glide Mix) [2010 Remastered Version]
13. How Many Lies?
14. Man In Chains
15. Be Free With Your Love
16. Raw

LOS ANGELES – Spandau Ballet take a look back at the definitive tracks from their career, along with three newly recorded songs, for the ultimate hits collection THE STORY…, available on CD and digitally on October 14 from Parlophone.
As the band’s upcoming feature length documentary for cinema Soul Boys Of The Western World shows they were not just about music, they were the epicenter fashion, youth culture and spoke for an audience who previously had no voice.
In the early 80s Spandau Ballet were the “In Crowd’s” band. They ushered in a new era of visually dominated pop and their mechanical, stylized sound was born and bred on the dance floors of London’s West End. They were Bowie Kids, Blitz Kids, and white soul boys embracing electronica, frilly shirts, and tuxedos.
Spandau spearheaded an era of new pop that was destined to traverse the globe. Along with Duran Duran, Sade, Culture Club, and Wham!, as well as dozens of other British groups who grew out of the new romantic scene at the end of the Seventies. By the mid-80s, Spandau were global superstars.
Spandau became one of the most commercially successful bands of the decade, and during their career they notched up 23 hit singles and spent a combined total of in excess of 500 weeks in the UK charts, achieving album sales of over 25 million worldwide. Some of their songs, like “True,” “Gold,” and “Through the Barricades,” have become standards. “True” has now achieved over four million plays in North America alone and “Gold” was the true soundtrack to the London 2012 Olympics.
Spandau Ballet lasted ten years; a career that spanned the nightclubs of Soho and Ibiza to Hollywood and the stadiums of Europe and Australia. They defined the decade, they came, they saw, they partied. And then they left.
To paraphrase “True,” ‘and then they came back again’ with the hugely successful sell out Reformation Tour of 2009/10. It was during this time that work began on Soul Boys Of The Western World. The film documents the late 70s and 80s in a way that’s never been seen on screen before and tells the story of five friends who just happened to be in a globally successful band.
The film was rapturously received by critics when it world premiered at SXSW film festival earlier this year and UK and Irish fans will get their opportunity to see the film on September 30 when the European premiere at the Royal Albert Hall is beamed by satellite into over 200 cinemas across both countries along with a Q&A with the band and director George Hencken moderated by Lauren Laverne, followed by a short live performance by the band.
THE STORY… pulls together all the band’s greatest songs as well as three brand new songs – “This Is The Love,” the band’s first North American single in 30 years, “Steal” and “Soul Boy,” all recorded especially for the album with the legendary Trevor Horn, whom the band last worked with on “Instinction” way back in 1982.
THE STORY… is the ultimate Spandau Ballet album…. so far.