True (Spandau Ballet album)

Infobox Album
Name = True
Artist = Spandau Ballet


Type = Album
Released = March 4 1983
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Synthpop

Length = 35:36
Label = Chrysalis Records
Producer = Steve Jolley, Tony Swain
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:uwa9qj7bojaa link]
Last album = "Diamond"
(1982)
This album = "True"
(1983)
Next album = "Parade"
(1984)

"True" was the third studio album by British band Spandau Ballet. It was released in March 1983, and was heavily influenced by jazz, soul, and R&B. It reached #1 on the UK charts, the top twenty in the United States, and charted in numerous countries around the world. The title track spent four weeks at #1 on the UK singles charts, and was a top five single in America. In 1991 it was sampled by the spiritual hip-hop act PM Dawn on their single "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

Other singles from the album included "Gold" (a #2 UK hit and a Top 30 hit in the U.S.), "Lifeline", "Communication" and "Pleasure". Later album releases by the band never equalled the success of "True", and they broke up six years later.

Track listing

*All Songs Written By Gary Kemp.
#"Pleasure" – 3:31
#"Communication" – 3:41
#"Code of Love" – 5:11
#"Gold" – 4:51
#"Lifeline" – 3:36
#"Heaven is a Secret" – 4:27
#"Foundation" – 4:08
#"True" – 6:29

Personnel

*Tony Hadley - vocals, synthesizers
*Gary Kemp - guitar, background vocals, keyboards
*Martin Kemp - bass
*Steve Norman - saxophone
*John Keeble - drums, vocals

*With: Jess Bailey-Additional Keyboards

Charts

Album

Singles

Infobox Album
Name = True (20th Anniversary Edition)
Artist = Spandau Ballet


Type = Album
Released = July 3 2003
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Synthpop

Length = 35:36 (plus bonus tracks)
Label = Chrysalis Records
Producer = Steve Jolley, Tony Swain
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:uwa9qj7bojaa link]
Last album = "Heart Like a Sky"
(1989)
This album = "True (20th Anniversary Edition)"
(2003)
Next album =

2003 re-release

"True" was re-released in 2003 as a 20th anniversary edition. It was re-released as a single CD with the original eight tracks along with the music video for "Gold" and some Home Video Footage of the band.

Track listing

#"Pleasure" – 3:31
#"Communication" – 3:41
#"Code of Love" – 5:11
#"Gold" – 4:51
#"Lifeline" – 3:36
#"Heaven is a Secret" – 4:27
#"Foundation" – 4:08
#"True" – 6:29
#Home Video Footage (multimedia)
#"Gold" music video

succession box
before = "Let's Dance" by David Bowie
title = UK Albums Chart number one album
years = May 14 1983 – May 20 1983
after = "Thriller" by Michael Jackson