Bob Geldof is quoted on the cover of Gary Kemp’s autobiography with untypical succinctness: ‘Great bloke, great band, great book’.
Bob Geldof is quoted on the cover of Gary Kemp’s autobiography with untypical succinct- ness: ‘Great bloke, great band, great book’. And Sir Bob is spot on with his assessment of the memoirs of Gary Kemp, leader of the popular Eighties combo Spandau Ballet, who are threatening to do it all over again, but in a more stately manner, a quarter of a century later. This is a fine, beautifully written book, primarily describing the antics of the New Romantics, the peacock performers and their audiences whose music dominated the youth of the Thatcher years.
The tuneful supremacy of Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Culture Club and the like held sway in the final decade in which singles and chart positions actually mattered.
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