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Tony
Hadley
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One
of Popular Music’s Greatest Vocalists
As
the lead singer with Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley has realised many ambitions.
He
saw the world, performed to a sizeable chunk of it – both in the live arena
and via television and radio – and more importantly, staked his claim as one
of popular music’s greatest vocalists.
Turning
the page on Spandau Ballet, Tony has continued to stick to the same raw instincts
that brought him early success. Always supremely confident and comfortable when
performing, Tony has never stopped doing what he loves.
1996
The
last few years have seen him not only delighting European audiences on a grand
scale with his 1996 arena tour Night of the Proms which reached upwards of
half a million people, but also enjoying the more intimate and challenging atmosphere
of R&B type venues such as the Jazz Cafe and Ronnie Scotts.
In
addition Tony has embraced other music genres: getting together with dance remixers
Tin Tin Out, a collaboration which spawned the Top Forty hit single Dance With
Me as well as the theme song Build Me Up for the successful football movie
When Saturday Comes, starring Sean Bean.
1998
In
1998 Tony released his self-titled solo album. This marked his first worldwide
release since Spandau Ballet. Through his own label ‘Slipstream Records’ he
recorded a collection of his favourite songs, which included classic tracks
such as Duran Duran’s Save A Prayer, featuring Simon Le Bon on backing vocals,
the Bee Gees’ First Of May, Tears For Fears’ Woman In Chains and four of
Tony’s own compositions including Dance With Me.
20
MILLION RECORDS
Unlike
other established UK artists, Tony has already proven himself internationally.
As the lead singer of Spandau Ballet, he has sold over 20 million records world-wide
and reached the number one spot in 21 countries with the single True.
PERFORMING
AROUND THE WORLD
With
this achievement behind him he has continued to perform abroad as much as possible.
Over the past year he has been playing with his band across Europe, Africa and
South East Asia. Back home he has also found a new audience on the club scene.
With remixes of his past and present hits he undertook an extensive PA tour
across the whole country. They went so well that Tony has been performing in
shows in many European club destinations, including Ibiza, Rhodes, Canary Islands,
Italy and Portugal.
UK
TOUR
As
the summer progresses Tony is continuing live work with festivals in the UK,
Germany, Holland, Belgium and Denmark. In September this year he embarks on
a 30-date UK tour with his band, It will be the first time in 12 years that
he has played so extensively in this country. In November he will be back in
Europe as the special guest of the ‘Alan Parsons Project’ on the European tour,
once again playing in Germany, Belgium, Holland, France and Spain.
2000
In
December 1999 Tony and his band played their first ever show for the armed forces.
Playing at 10 different air bases in Bosnia, not only to the British troops
but also to the many different nationalities of soldiers that made up the Peace
Keeping Forces on the front line. In January 2000 he is returning to the Balkans
to play for troops in Kosovo.
FIRST LIVE ALBUM
In
March 2000 Tony released his first live album entitled Obsession. The album
was recorded during the autumn tour at Ronnie Scott’s in Birmingham.
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