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Spandau Ballet: Diamond

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Label: Chrysalis Records
Released: 1982.05.25
Time:
 39:16
Category: Synthpop, New Wave
Producer(s): Richard James Burgess
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.spandauballet.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Chant No. 1 [I Don't Need This Pressure On] (G.Kemp) - 4:07
[2] Instinction (G.Kemp) - 4:47
[3] Paint Me Down (G.Kemp) - 3:45
[4] Coffee Club (G.Kemp) - 5:32
[5] She Loved Like Diamond (G.Kemp) - 2:56
[6] Pharaoh (G.Kemp) - 6:37
[7] Innocence and Science (G.Kemp) - 4:27
[8] Missionary (G.Kemp) - 7:00

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Tony Hadley - Lead Vocals, Synthesizers
Gary Kemp - Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Backing Vocals
Martin Kemp - Bass, Backing Vocals
Steve Norman - Guitar, Percussion, Saxophone, Backing Vocals
John Keeble - Drums, Backing Vocals

Nathaniel Augustin - Trombone
David Baptiste - Flute, Saxophone
Canute Wellington - Trumpet

Richard James Burgess - Producer, Horn Arrangement
Andy Jackson - Engineer
Colin Fairley - Engineer
Gary Langan - Engineer
John Etchells - Engineer
Nicholas Froome - Engineer
Pete Walsh - Engineer
Mario Pochini - Mastering
Graham Smith - Sleeve Design
Andy Earl - Photography
Steve Dagger - Management

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With the new romantic movement they'd helped spearhead on the way out, futurist icons Spandau Ballet began thinking seriously about the future on their second album. The seeds of the group's transition to a slick, MOR soul outfit can be heard in hits like "Chant No. 1," the best song Spandau Ballet had come up with. More funk than rock, "Chant No. 1" got punctuation from the horn section of the British R&B act Beggar & Co., who were apparently a major inspiration for the track. Diamond features other tentative moves toward an authentically soulful sound; the tuneless single "Paint Me Down" is all chattering rhythm guitar and popping bass, while "She Loved Like Diamond" offers an inferior trial run at the approach that would produce the global mega-hit "True" (this version has an underdeveloped melody, which is OK, since still-improving vocalist Tony Hadley wasn't ready yet for a better one). The rest of the album sounds like the group had been listening too long to the second side of David Bowie's Heroes. "Pharoah" is off-kilter funk reminiscent of "The Secret Life of Arabia" - a dubious choice for emulation - and the gentle, oriental balladry of "Innocence and Science" segues into "Missionary," a percussion-filled mood piece light on actual substance. Although it's an improvement on their debut, Diamond showed Spandau Ballet was musically still far behind likeminded acts such as Duran Duran, Ultravox, and Visage - a situation that would change somewhat with the band's next, most successful album, True.

Dan LeRoy - All Music Guide



Diamond is the second studio album by Spandau Ballet. It was released on 25 May 1982 by Chrysalis Records. The album was promoted with the single "Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)", which was released in 1981, a full year before the album, and it reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart. The last single released, "Instinction", reached #10. The album was re-released in a remastered and expanded 2 CD Special Edition on 8 March 2010.

Limited edition 4x12" Box version of the album Diamond. Tracks are extended versions compared to standard album. A colour poster and lyric sheet were also included in the box. The only tracks that were otherwise issued on a single were the extended version of "She Loved Like Diamond," which is identical to the UK 12" A-side, and the 8 minute "Chant No. 1 (re-mix)," which was later included as a B-side to the UK 12" of "Instinction." The rest of the remixed cuts were unique mixes to be found only in this box, though in 2002 tracks "Instinction" and "Coffee Club" were included in the "Reformation" 3xCD box and in 2010 all the mixes appeared on Disc 1 of the 2 CD Special Edition.

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