{"id":40825,"date":"2025-08-03T17:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40825\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:38:03","slug":"tony-hadley-on-the-chances-of-a-spandau-ballet-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40825\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hadley on the chances of a Spandau Ballet reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Hadley<\/a> has opened up about the possibility of Spandau Ballet<\/a> reuniting for one final tour in the future.<\/p>\n

The singer last performed live with the New Romantic band in 2017, with that tour being cut short when Hadley quit due to \u201ccircumstances beyond my control\u201d<\/a>. The remainder of the group \u2013 Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Steve Norman and John Keeble \u2013 did briefly continue without him, playing their final dates in 2019.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Hadley quit, the band went on Good Morning Britain and explained that the door would not be open for him to return<\/a>, but in an interview with NME earlier this year, Gary Kemp appeared to suggest that the tensions between the parties had eased<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When asked about the chance of a reunion, Kemp said: \u201cI can\u2019t say there won\u2019t be. Tony and I aren\u2019t in conversation right now and we\u2019ve always had our issues over the years. We were never friends, more workmates. We never hung out, but we\u2019ve always been nice to each other \u2013 apart from when we\u2019ve got lawyers involved!\u00a0[Laughs]\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I think there will be a Spandau reunion? I hope so, because some of my children have never seen us and I\u2019d like to do it for them. It meant so much to me. We soundtracked people\u2019s lives, and to come together at least another time as the original members to play that music for those fans would be a great thing to do, so I\u2019m open to all conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Hadley has given an interview to Classic Pop<\/a> magazine, who responds to Kemp\u2019s comments by saying: \u201cReally? That\u2019s news to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it would work. I haven\u2019t seen Gary, Martin or John in eight years. Steve is the only one I\u2019m vaguely in contact with. We had some good times, but unfortunately there were some bad times as well. That\u2019s just life. We had some good laughs on the last tour, then unfortunately John fell ill and it wasn\u2019t the same without him. That was difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish Gary, Martin and John well, but I\u2019m happy doing what I\u2019m doing,\u201d he added. \u201cI love the freedom I have now, the fact I can go from a bit of swing to a bit of rock. You can\u2019t do that within the confines of a band.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hadley also spoke to NME in 2021 about his split from the band<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ll never say what happened and it\u2019s up to them [the rest of Spandau] to tell the real story and tell the truth,\u201d he said. \u201cResigning from the band wasn\u2019t something I wanted to do and we could have been looking at an anniversary show which would have been great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, Martin Kemp suggested that he may just have \u201c10 years\u201d left to live after a series of health scares<\/a>, while in 2023, Hadley was rushed to hospital just before a gig in Northern Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Hadley has opened up about the possibility of Spandau Ballet reuniting for one final tour in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,11255],"class_list":["post-40825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}