Spandau Ballet are set to release their brand new best-of album The Story – The Very Best Of Spandau Ballet on October 24. This new collection pulls together all the band’s greatest songs as well as three brand new songs – This Is The Love which will be the band’s new single, Steal and Soul Boy all recorded especially for the album with the legendary Trevor Horn whom the band last worked with on Instinction way back in 1982. A film soundtrack featuring music from the band’s documentary Soulboys Of The Western World will also be available at a later date.

Spandau Ballet defined the 80s in the way that The Who defined the 60’s, Bowie defined the 70’s and Oasis defined the 90’s. Spandau spearheaded an era of new pop that was destined to traverse the globe. Along with Duran Duran, Sade, Culture Club and Wham!, as well as dozens of other British groups who grew out of the new romantic scene at the end of the Seventies. By the mid-Eighties Spandau were global superstars.

Spandau became one of the most commercially successful bands of the decade, and during their career they notched up 23 hit singles and spent a combined total of in excess of 500 weeks in the UK charts, achieving album sales of over 25 million worldwide. Some of their songs, like True, Gold and Through the Barricades, have become standards, while True has now achieved over four million plays in North America alone and Gold was the true soundtrack to the London 2012 Olympics