“Revenge for Love” by Spandau Ballet

Gary Kemp wrote every word and note of "Revenge for Love", one of the songs on Parade, the fourth Spandau Ballet album, which Chrysalis let loose on 25 June 1984. Steve Jolley and Tony Swain produced it together with the band.

By then Spandau Ballet were pulling arena-sized crowds, and Kemp was writing for the cheap seats, chasing the sound the band made when they played together on stage. He hung the whole album on one conceit: with a tour ahead of them, they'd be parading themselves across the globe, so the sleeve shows an international cast marching in a parade. Most critics heard only a bland rerun of True, and the band had another go at that arena sound on Through the Barricades, with a new label and new producers in tow.

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