“Round and Round” by Spandau Ballet

"Round and Round" was the fourth single pulled from Spandau Ballet's 1984 album Parade, a Gary Kemp song, words and music, recorded that spring and produced by Steve Jolley and Tony Swain with the band. It reached British shops late that November and got to 18 at home, did better still in Ireland, where it made 9, and charted across Europe and in Australia too.

The pop papers split on it. Smash Hits' Lesley White called it "slick, polished and confident", and even Record Mirror's Betty Page, no fan of Parade, allowed that it had a "neat turn of melody". Number One's Phil McNeill was having none of it, grumbling that Kemp was too busy fussing over his pop gems to notice how dull they were and writing the song off as "well-crafted tedium".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.