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Renny
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK)  Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:55 am |
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The Last Hippie
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correct me if i am wrong, please.
spandau ballet = one-hit wonder
and not even the album version of the one-hit.......i think there was easily room for both.
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TS Garp
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK) Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:57 am |
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Renny wrote: correct me if i am wrong, please.
spandau ballet = one-hit wonder
and not even the album version of the one-hit.......i think there was easily room for both. I thought the same thing, and I am a big fan of that one song.
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Jason Michael
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK) Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:04 pm |
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Renny wrote: correct me if i am wrong, please.
spandau ballet = one-hit wonder
and not even the album version of the one-hit.......i think there was easily room for both. Well, since you asked... You are wrong. They sold 25 million albums, and had 5 platinum albums. They had 23 charting singles in Britain, and a similar amount throughout Europe. You are correct that they were a one hit wonder in the U.S (though they did have 4 charting singles, the other three did not get close to top ten). edit: As an aside, I hate "True".
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Renny
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK) Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:44 pm |
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The Last Hippie
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Jason Michael wrote: Renny wrote: correct me if i am wrong, please.
spandau ballet = one-hit wonder
and not even the album version of the one-hit.......i think there was easily room for both. Well, since you asked... You are wrong. They sold 25 million albums, and had 5 platinum albums. They had 23 charting singles in Britain, and a similar amount throughout Europe. You are correct that they were a one hit wonder in the U.S (though they did have 4 charting singles, the other three did not get close to top ten). edit: As an aside, I hate "True". 
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GodsComic
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK) Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 1:30 pm |
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Renny wrote: correct me if i am wrong, please.
spandau ballet = one-hit wonder
It's not all about the US charts Renny. They had multiple top 10 singles in the UK.
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK) Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:11 pm |
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Jason Michael wrote: Renny wrote: correct me if i am wrong, please.
spandau ballet = one-hit wonder
and not even the album version of the one-hit.......i think there was easily room for both. Well, since you asked... You are wrong. They sold 25 million albums, and had 5 platinum albums. They had 23 charting singles in Britain, and a similar amount throughout Europe. You are correct that they were a one hit wonder in the U.S (though they did have 4 charting singles, the other three did not get close to top ten). edit: As an aside, I hate "True". If anyone listened to radio stations such as WLIR in NY or KROQ in LA, all of those UK Spandau Ballet hits are just plain hits  There are LOTS of 'em too!
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GodsComic
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK) Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:17 pm |
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DanO wrote: Jason Michael wrote: Renny wrote: correct me if i am wrong, please.
spandau ballet = one-hit wonder
and not even the album version of the one-hit.......i think there was easily room for both. Well, since you asked... You are wrong. They sold 25 million albums, and had 5 platinum albums. They had 23 charting singles in Britain, and a similar amount throughout Europe. You are correct that they were a one hit wonder in the U.S (though they did have 4 charting singles, the other three did not get close to top ten). edit: As an aside, I hate "True". If anyone listened to radio stations such as WLIR in NY or KROQ in LA, all of those UK Spandau Ballet hits are just plain hits There are LOTS of 'em too! It's funny because I was going to say that Chant No. 1 and To Cut a Long Story Short were hits. But then I remembered I grew up on KROQ and realized they were just were just hits for their listeners
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK) Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:24 pm |
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GodsComic wrote: DanO wrote: Jason Michael wrote: Renny wrote: correct me if i am wrong, please.
spandau ballet = one-hit wonder
and not even the album version of the one-hit.......i think there was easily room for both. Well, since you asked... You are wrong. They sold 25 million albums, and had 5 platinum albums. They had 23 charting singles in Britain, and a similar amount throughout Europe. You are correct that they were a one hit wonder in the U.S (though they did have 4 charting singles, the other three did not get close to top ten). edit: As an aside, I hate "True". If anyone listened to radio stations such as WLIR in NY or KROQ in LA, all of those UK Spandau Ballet hits are just plain hits There are LOTS of 'em too! It's funny because I was going to say that Chant No. 1 and To Cut a Long Story Short were hits. But then I remembered I grew up on KROQ and realized they were just were just hits for their listeners To my wife and I, they are huge hits! On our honeymoon cruise in 1983, she had only one request of the ship's DJ: "Please play 'Lifeline'!" He did 
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Jason Michael
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Post subject: [2020-11-27] Spandau Ballet "40 Years: The Greatest Hits" 3CD set (Parlophone/Rhino UK) Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:54 pm |
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