Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Journeys to Glory" in English language version.
the sessions were uncomfortable for the few days Spandau were there, the band not used to being stuck out in the countryside.
All our mates from the Blitz were able to hang out at Trident. We had huge characters like Chris Sullivan, Bob Elms and Simon Withers there, helping to gee us along.
Like "The Freeze", there's not a sung chorus on this one. There was a lot of space in the song for me to add guitar to it.
I love synthpop and still one of my favourite songs is Spandau Ballet's first release, 'To Cut a Long Story Short'.
It was the one the band was playing when it was the Makers, which was the power pop band I was the roadie for. I always remember that song. We even played it on the last tour, so it stayed with us all those years. So when I look back at Journeys to Glory, I think "Confused" is the track that means a lot more to me than any of the others.
This move would still be considered questionable in marketing terms today.
Rusty Egan called and told me I had to come to the Blitz Club one Tuesday night. I had no idea. Walking through the door of 4 Great Queen St. changed the course of my life. The music Rusty played was a revolutionary mix of European electronic music including recontextualizations of some of my own group, Landscape's music. Like the music, the fashion was new, street, and exciting. A couple of weeks later some people I had been chatting with at the bar suddenly got up on the dancefloor and played a set. Stunning. It was a new sound, a new look, and new classic torch songs.
I had been in the studio finishing up the Landscape album, From the Tearooms of Mars… I mentioned that to Gary (Kemp). He wanted to hear some, so we sat in my car perched half on the curb in front of The Blitz, while I played him a few roughs.
I didn't give it much thought until a couple of days later when I got a call from Steve Dagger to see if I might be interested in producing the band.
So simultaneously to finalizing our negotiations for our record deal, we set a release date of 31st October 1980 and started to record... Such was the clamour for the group's signature, the record companies agreed that whoever we chose would pick up the studio bills.
It was a hit waiting to happen.
So simultaneously to finalizing our negotiations for our record deal, we set a release date of 31st October 1980 and started to record our album and single at Trident and then Jam Studios.
At the end of the second album there was a feeling, you know, there were some of the kids we were hanging out with at the time who were going, 'We can't follow these guys anymore. They've been on Top of the Pops six times.' It's not really cult, is it? And I sort of realized that I didn't have to keep chasing 'What's the latest rhythm that I need to write to? What sound are all my friends wanting to dance to in that club?'
All our mates from the Blitz were able to hang out at Trident. We had huge characters like Chris Sullivan, Bob Elms and Simon Withers there, helping to gee us along.
I was ecstatic when they asked me to produce them, because I was a completely unknown quality, although I had done the Shock single and the Landscape album which hadn't been released. At the same time, I was a bit wary of something going wrong because of the tendency of record companies to swing back to a major name producer, but when they didn't do that, I was over the moon, because it was obviously a great opportunity for me.
It was the one the band was playing when it was the Makers, which was the power pop band I was the roadie for. I always remember that song. We even played it on the last tour, so it stayed with us all those years. So when I look back at Journeys to Glory, I think "Confused" is the track that means a lot more to me than any of the others.
At the end of the second album there was a feeling, you know, there were some of the kids we were hanging out with at the time who were going, 'We can't follow these guys anymore. They've been on Top of the Pops six times.' It's not really cult, is it? And I sort of realized that I didn't have to keep chasing 'What's the latest rhythm that I need to write to? What sound are all my friends wanting to dance to in that club?'
