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To Cut A Long Story Short (Top of the Pops 13/11/80) 

Spandau Ballet (Official)
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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."
40 Years - The Greatest Hits out now @ lnk.to/SpandauBallet-GH40
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

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Комментарии : 149   
@Tawadeb
@Tawadeb 2 года назад
Tony’s voice is majestic. So recognisable
@AussieFaraday2024
@AussieFaraday2024 3 месяца назад
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.
@lewisner
@lewisner Год назад
I wish they had stayed like this.
@franciscojaviermarfacatala2964
@franciscojaviermarfacatala2964 3 года назад
New Romantics forever
@TheGreatestPlayerInTheWorld
@TheGreatestPlayerInTheWorld 3 года назад
Tony’s hair is on point 👍🏾
@OtherMike5000
@OtherMike5000 Год назад
This was the first Spandau Ballet song I'd ever heard. EPIC!!
@jamessoles526
@jamessoles526 10 месяцев назад
It was their first hit and it reached #5 when it debuted
@Elusive_Theorist
@Elusive_Theorist 2 года назад
Tony is so beautiful and clean and very-very young!!!!💖💖💖💖💖
@philgrossman660
@philgrossman660 9 месяцев назад
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.
@squishmallowfan025
@squishmallowfan025 3 месяца назад
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.
@Tawadeb
@Tawadeb 3 месяца назад
It was!! Amazing
@TimDye-by2sw
@TimDye-by2sw 3 месяца назад
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.
@peterbushby9009
@peterbushby9009 27 дней назад
All came after 1980 ..80 was a hangover from the u0s . ​@@TimDye-by2sw
@Giulia-uj9bv
@Giulia-uj9bv 3 года назад
Tony was Is Always Gorgeous 💙💙💙💙💙
@carlh429
@carlh429 3 года назад
They were the talk of our school after we’d first seen them on TOTP. ‘Did you see that Scottish band last night?’ 😆
@cliveedwards2958
@cliveedwards2958 3 года назад
;D love it..the Scott's band !
@tanyajackson3833
@tanyajackson3833 Год назад
How did they get the time off from the shortbread factory?
@carolehankinson4969
@carolehankinson4969 Год назад
​@@tanyajackson3833🤣😂👌😂🤣
@Thorsten_Kueppers
@Thorsten_Kueppers Год назад
@@tanyajackson3833 😂😂😂😂
@MikeMike-hx3gm
@MikeMike-hx3gm Год назад
Lyrics by Gary Kemp
@DIBBY40
@DIBBY40 8 месяцев назад
I remember watching this at the time and thinking "Wow, brilliant look and sound".❤
@myopjourney4671
@myopjourney4671 Год назад
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....
@AwesomeGee
@AwesomeGee 2 года назад
Tony looks so handsome there!
@johngraziano9182
@johngraziano9182 3 года назад
Forty years ago where has the time gone.
@angelsarissopla2831
@angelsarissopla2831 3 года назад
Time past quily
@cal26restaurantcastelloli98
@cal26restaurantcastelloli98 2 года назад
One of the best 80's songs.
@user-mq8hq1cy1q
@user-mq8hq1cy1q 3 года назад
Very beautiful band very beautiful song and perfect voice from Tony.
@angusshields5849
@angusshields5849 8 месяцев назад
what a band,what a tune you just cant fault them,no surrender
@OldhamSteve52
@OldhamSteve52 6 месяцев назад
You can’t beat the 80’s, proper discos, music, cheap beer!!!
@Wudster64
@Wudster64 28 дней назад
1980 Samuel Smiths bitter was 49p a pint in my local. Happy days 😊
@pieterklaaskrugmann
@pieterklaaskrugmann 4 дня назад
Kick ass song👍🏻
@antonio47anos
@antonio47anos 4 месяца назад
fabulous 80s!
@lesleyallen7379
@lesleyallen7379 3 года назад
Happy memories. Time flies.
@chrispetty4574
@chrispetty4574 Год назад
Best songs ever
@suzannemcguinness8030
@suzannemcguinness8030 3 года назад
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
@peterbrown6224
@peterbrown6224 Год назад
She's right, you can get stuck in whenever you want.
@user-wh7so3qt3o
@user-wh7so3qt3o 3 дня назад
A young Tony Hadley is cool cool !!!
@anthonygreen7295
@anthonygreen7295 Год назад
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!
@lewisner
@lewisner Год назад
No way. Adam Ant was just getting started and Duran Duran.
@slowswimmer9169
@slowswimmer9169 Год назад
Top 10 80s synth wave
@kerrfal
@kerrfal 3 года назад
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!
@ajs41
@ajs41 3 года назад
Tony was only 19 a few months before this performance.
@agnesbonnetain8656
@agnesbonnetain8656 3 года назад
@@ajs41 20 and a half years......Sorry.......He was born on June 2,1960.
@MaleTears
@MaleTears 3 года назад
thanks for the inspiration, Spandau.
@Anouk-Azul
@Anouk-Azul 3 года назад
Amazing! So young men doing history! 😍
@boris9712
@boris9712 3 года назад
Back when music was music.
@Montweezy
@Montweezy 3 года назад
I wish it was still the 80's everyday!!!!!
@paul8926
@paul8926 3 года назад
This was before trashy so-called fake singers took over the air waves with political nonsense
@celestia849
@celestia849 3 года назад
@@paul8926 music has always been political
@JohnnyFriendly
@JohnnyFriendly 3 года назад
@@paul8926 What are you talking about? There was TONS of political music in the charts back then!
@paul8926
@paul8926 3 года назад
😲
@liammccarron8191
@liammccarron8191 3 года назад
Best song they ever did. 19 then . Jesus, time sure does fly.
@maria-melek
@maria-melek Год назад
@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.
@irekciekawski2222
@irekciekawski2222 2 года назад
Extraordinarily beautiful song:)🥇🙏
@asboukcomfortable1670
@asboukcomfortable1670 Месяц назад
What a strange song, brilliant Islington N1 band 👏. Done well! UK 🇬🇧
@angua65
@angua65 2 месяца назад
It was good to be young then...
@theworldsbonkers
@theworldsbonkers Год назад
43 years ago......... Omg makes me feel so old .Where did all those years go?
@robertjohngunabe7771
@robertjohngunabe7771 3 года назад
One of my favorite 80's classic new wave/synth pop hits
@agnesbonnetain8656
@agnesbonnetain8656 3 года назад
Me too....
@robertjohngunabe7771
@robertjohngunabe7771 3 года назад
@@agnesbonnetain8656 I grew up listening to Spandau Ballet classic hits
@agnesbonnetain8656
@agnesbonnetain8656 3 года назад
@@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 ....
@williamsscaltriti4457
@williamsscaltriti4457 3 года назад
What wonderful times!
@kellydixon7338
@kellydixon7338 Год назад
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 ❤
@asiajankowiak1173
@asiajankowiak1173 3 года назад
super song and fantastic Band 😍✌🎶❤🎸❤🎸
@alexmccrorie4195
@alexmccrorie4195 3 года назад
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 .
@KYRIGR
@KYRIGR 3 года назад
Classic Masterpiece from a Great / Unique band
@andreak8384
@andreak8384 2 года назад
Luv it and I was only 3 years old hahaha. 2021 good music
@robertgambino
@robertgambino Год назад
I'm sitting on that park bench still 40 years? Wow
@julienhiggins7017
@julienhiggins7017 19 дней назад
There is something so raw about this song which makes it great...
@angelocampus4882
@angelocampus4882 2 года назад
They started as new wave before turning to new romantic
@jmitch5161
@jmitch5161 Месяц назад
I remember all us girls talking about this in school next day!
@imstoevelaar9062
@imstoevelaar9062 Месяц назад
I am so sorry
@chloesmith6714
@chloesmith6714 2 года назад
I HIGHLY prefer this reformation and the freeze over true and gold .
@Theoriginalbigbrillo
@Theoriginalbigbrillo 5 месяцев назад
The Kemps legends in their own minds🤫🤫🤫🤫 Tony was the reaL DEAL 👍👍👍👍
@glennaa11
@glennaa11 3 года назад
I was so in love with this era Tony
@user-ve5ln5le9y
@user-ve5ln5le9y 3 года назад
Tony
@ashfaq1999
@ashfaq1999 3 года назад
Brilliant.
@asboukcomfortable1670
@asboukcomfortable1670 Месяц назад
God Steve, Gary all the boys were gorgeous 😍! My old Manor Holloway, N7 London! UK 🇬🇧
@chrispetty4574
@chrispetty4574 Год назад
Best bands ever 👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍 of the 80s for ever
@DiddlyPenguin
@DiddlyPenguin Год назад
Tony was only 20 when this came out. But very gorgeous & very tall
@eliseogarcia1024
@eliseogarcia1024 3 года назад
Cool.
@antidepressant11
@antidepressant11 3 года назад
I like the lead singers choice to have a fairly conservative image. It was original at the time.
@clealima8341
@clealima8341 3 года назад
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@dailtonalves6110
@dailtonalves6110 3 года назад
Sou muito fã de vocês spandau ballete
@mykeiassousa598
@mykeiassousa598 Год назад
Musica visiante hehe ❤️🇦🇷
@paranormaletinamacripo
@paranormaletinamacripo 3 года назад
Wooow ☺️
@haeleth7218
@haeleth7218 3 года назад
Comparing this to today's music is like comparing contentedness to nuclear war.
@dale4039
@dale4039 2 года назад
Martin Kemp's bass line on this song is unreal, when Tony Hadley hits that note 2:50 is epic
@barnbersonol
@barnbersonol Год назад
It's not live you know
@Bitovoy_Muzikant
@Bitovoy_Muzikant 11 месяцев назад
as a bassist i’d say it’s pretty simple
@manuelcarvalho4550
@manuelcarvalho4550 4 месяца назад
@Sean-ec7pr
@Sean-ec7pr 2 года назад
Kilts are serious style
@patthis
@patthis 2 года назад
I remember watching this on top of the pops...fuck I'm old..
@dailtonalves6110
@dailtonalves6110 3 года назад
Música Linda show
@mariarubera6945
@mariarubera6945 3 года назад
Lui...un grande
@alessandrapiazzi6430
@alessandrapiazzi6430 3 года назад
❤️❤️❤️❤️
@rutharevalo3000
@rutharevalo3000 2 года назад
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@dailtonalves6110
@dailtonalves6110 3 года назад
Abraços parabéns pelo vídeo
@johnstjohn6658
@johnstjohn6658 Год назад
"...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.
@Bella-fz9fy
@Bella-fz9fy 3 года назад
🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺❤️
@torstenrichter169
@torstenrichter169 7 месяцев назад
New Romantic ❤🎉
@skylinenumber9
@skylinenumber9 Месяц назад
Proper new romantics this
@carinapolo229
@carinapolo229 3 года назад
👏👏👏💕💕💕
@elvirazaratebaldarrago602
@elvirazaratebaldarrago602 3 года назад
😍😍😍❤❤❤👍👏
@traceybonds8794
@traceybonds8794 8 месяцев назад
British music
@user-ol8cs8vq6e
@user-ol8cs8vq6e 5 месяцев назад
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"?
@henriquesafonso3391
@henriquesafonso3391 3 года назад
5 Império
@pete6645
@pete6645 3 года назад
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.
@Theoriginalbigbrillo
@Theoriginalbigbrillo 3 года назад
Did like Frankie and Grace Jones to be fair ;) BUT POINT TAKEN 🎸🎸
@marcellodellalonga538
@marcellodellalonga538 2 года назад
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.
@zarcon85
@zarcon85 Год назад
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.
@Idcanymore510
@Idcanymore510 Год назад
F*ckin' spot on!
@Idcanymore510
@Idcanymore510 Год назад
@@zarcon85 Truth be told.
@Ana.17.
@Ana.17. 3 года назад
😀❤️❤️🎶🎧
@sisiam3268
@sisiam3268 Год назад
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
@markyy3590
@markyy3590 Месяц назад
Think this was their 1st ToTP
@princegroove
@princegroove Год назад
Cool! This is clearly before they adopted the corporate CEO look. 😂
@mariadelcarmenalvarezpolo496
@mariadelcarmenalvarezpolo496 3 года назад
Mejor banda de todos los tiempos😍
@paoloamici7944
@paoloamici7944 2 года назад
😔😳😢
@user-ol8cs8vq6e
@user-ol8cs8vq6e 4 месяца назад
Love the song, but what exactly referring to when he says waiting in the park waiting for the man to come
@keplertagapan2912
@keplertagapan2912 Год назад
Spandau Ballet English British 🇬🇧 Synth Punk Pop Waves Punk Rocks New Waves Pop Waves European Band Decades 80s 90s Present Legendary
@Maria-ej5hh
@Maria-ej5hh 10 месяцев назад
Tony his voice is tenor
@michealkelliher8428
@michealkelliher8428 2 года назад
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.
@peterbrown6224
@peterbrown6224 Год назад
I was reflecting on how much I hated 1980, but this. *This* Afterwards, I went up, but this will never leave me.
@michaelmcneil4959
@michaelmcneil4959 Год назад
I think they were miming to backing bands. Did they use session musicians to play their cuts?
@pflynn581
@pflynn581 2 года назад
Didn't mind this early stuff.But by the time True came out I needed a sick bucket.
@rafaelnunes1307
@rafaelnunes1307 2 года назад
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!
@agnesbonnetain8656
@agnesbonnetain8656 3 года назад
I prefer Steve in pants......
@keplertagapan2912
@keplertagapan2912 5 месяцев назад
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
@jasoncollins1702
@jasoncollins1702 3 года назад
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.
@chrisbryan2195
@chrisbryan2195 3 года назад
He killed Saskia, in the club, with the ash tray!
@irene3718
@irene3718 3 года назад
I was 4 yo
@mikew608
@mikew608 Год назад
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
@peterbushby9009
@peterbushby9009 3 дня назад
At the start they were the coolest band ...nowadays people think they are naff ..
@urielmartinez6279
@urielmartinez6279 Год назад
I guess we now know where Franz Ferdinand got their sound from
@user-yb6mz4vo2z
@user-yb6mz4vo2z 2 года назад
State of that lot...
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