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With the new romantic movement they'd helped spearhead on the way out, futurist icons Spandau Ballet began thinking seriously about the future on their second album. The seeds of the group's transition to a slick, MOR soul outfit can be heard in hits like "Chant No. 1," the best song Spandau Ballet had come up with. More funk than rock, "Chant No. 1" got punctuation from the horn section of the British R&B act Beggar & Co., who were apparently a major inspiration for the track. Diamond features other tentative moves toward an authentically soulful sound; the tuneless single "Paint Me Down" is all chattering rhythm guitar and popping bass, while "She Loved Like Diamond" offers an inferior trial run at the approach that would produce the global mega-hit "True" (this version has an underdeveloped melody, which is OK, since still-improving vocalist Tony Hadley wasn't ready yet for a better one). The rest of the album sounds like the group had been listening too long to the second side of David Bowie's Heroes. "Pharoah" is off-kilter funk reminiscent of "The Secret Life of Arabia" -- a dubious choice for emulation -- and the gentle, oriental balladry of "Innocence and Science" segues into "Missionary," a percussion-filled mood piece light on actual substance. Although it's an improvement on their debut, Diamond showed Spandau Ballet was musically still far behind likeminded acts such as Duran Duran, Ultravox, and Visage -- a situation that would change somewhat with the band's next, most successful album, True.
© Dan LeRoy /TiVo
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Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1981, 2010 Parlophone Records Limited
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1982, 2010 Parlophone Records Limited
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Limited
Trevor Horn, Producer - Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
DISC 2
Spandau Ballet, Performance, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer - Richard James Burgess, Producer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Chrysalis Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer - Tony Hadley, Vocals
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Chrysalis Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Spandau Ballet, Performance, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Chrysalis Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Chrysalis Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer - Richard James Burgess, Producer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Chrysalis Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Chrysalis Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Spandau Ballet, Performance, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Chrysalis Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Trevor Horn, Producer - Steve Norman, Percussion, Vocals, Tabla - Gary Langan, Engineer - John Etchells, Engineer - Andy Jackson, Engineer - Spandau Ballet, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Horns Arranger - Martin Kemp, Bass Guitar, Vocals - Tony Hadley, Vocals - John Keeble, Drums, Vocals - Richard James Burgess, Producer, Horns Arranger - Kenny Wellington, Trumpet - David 'Baps' Baptiste, Flute, Saxophone - Pete Walsh, Engineer - Nicholas Froome, Engineer - Nathaniel Augustin, Trombone - Canute Wellington, Trumpet - Colin Fariley, Engineer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Chrysalis Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Spandau Ballet, Performance, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 BBC
Spandau Ballet, Performance, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 BBC
Spandau Ballet, Performance, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 BBC
Spandau Ballet, Performance, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 BBC
Spandau Ballet, Performance, MainArtist - Gary Kemp, Writer
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 BBC
Album review
With the new romantic movement they'd helped spearhead on the way out, futurist icons Spandau Ballet began thinking seriously about the future on their second album. The seeds of the group's transition to a slick, MOR soul outfit can be heard in hits like "Chant No. 1," the best song Spandau Ballet had come up with. More funk than rock, "Chant No. 1" got punctuation from the horn section of the British R&B act Beggar & Co., who were apparently a major inspiration for the track. Diamond features other tentative moves toward an authentically soulful sound; the tuneless single "Paint Me Down" is all chattering rhythm guitar and popping bass, while "She Loved Like Diamond" offers an inferior trial run at the approach that would produce the global mega-hit "True" (this version has an underdeveloped melody, which is OK, since still-improving vocalist Tony Hadley wasn't ready yet for a better one). The rest of the album sounds like the group had been listening too long to the second side of David Bowie's Heroes. "Pharoah" is off-kilter funk reminiscent of "The Secret Life of Arabia" -- a dubious choice for emulation -- and the gentle, oriental balladry of "Innocence and Science" segues into "Missionary," a percussion-filled mood piece light on actual substance. Although it's an improvement on their debut, Diamond showed Spandau Ballet was musically still far behind likeminded acts such as Duran Duran, Ultravox, and Visage -- a situation that would change somewhat with the band's next, most successful album, True.
© Dan LeRoy /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 26 track(s)
- Total length: 02:16:55
- Main artists: Spandau Ballet
- Label: Parlophone UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2010 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
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