‘Once I heard this tune it form of represented me and the place Spandau had been at on the time. I don’t say this flippantly, however we had been one of many greatest bands on this planet at this level. There have been solely two – us and Duran Duran and I feel we had the sting! To be honest they had been massive in Birmingham…’
Bob Geldof instructed me he tried every part to get Springsteen to play Stay Help which was occurring the evening after Bruce had performed at Wembley. He didn’t play – the one massive artist to not play at Stay Help – however what he did do was depart Bob all of the staging that he had used the evening earlier than as his present to Stay Help.’
This led to a dialog about Spandau Ballet’s Stay Help look, memorable for all of the flawed causes for poor Martin…
‘There have been two billion folks all over the world watching it on tv – you knew that that was the most important day in music ever and that it will be remembered without end. And I bear in mind standing on stage, we got here on and we did ‘Solely When You Go away’ which was an enormous Spandau observe, quantity 5 within the charts on the time I feel.
However then we made the deadly mistake of going as much as the microphone and saying, ‘that is the brand new one’ and you might really feel 2 billion folks all over the world going ‘actually?!’. It was just like the butterfly impact. We wrapped it up with True on the finish which form of received us again, however you might see by simply that one second… The one band to play a brand new tune at Stay Help and it was us.’
