2021-07-15
1 小时 3 分钟So if I said the words I know this much is true, a certain generation of humans, including me, raising my hand, would immediately start humming along with the lyrics and the unforgettable melody from that iconic Spandau ballet song, simply titled True.
As the songwriter and guitarist for the eighties music phenome Spandau ballet, Gary Kemp wrote True, along with 23 hit singles and the band's androgynous glam look.
It really changed the culture of music in a way that wouldn't be truly understood for years.
He later worked with everyone from Nellie to Lloyd to the Black Eyed Peas, wrote music that appeared on tv shows worldwide, including Spin City, the Simpsons and Ugly Betty, as well as Hollywood blockbusters like the Wedding Singer, Charlie's Angels, 51st dates and Sky High.
And when Spandau's opening run came to a close in the early nineties, well, Gary then followed a parallel muse into acting, appearing in the hit british gangster movie the Craze, and then in Hollywood movies like Bodyguard and Quentin Tarantino's killing Zoe.
He also made a theatrical debut, and he has been in the theater in London's West End production of art.
Gary recently, just a couple years back, began touring again with saucerful of secrets alongside Pink Floyd, drummer Nick Mason and bassist Guy Pratt, really rekindling a desire to be back in the studio, writing and recording an album that he produced entirely and almost all remotely originally, at least during the pandemic called in solo, which is this deeply reflective look at his life, his love and work.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I'm sort of ogling the guitar that's sitting on your wall behind you right now, by the way.
Yeah, that one's a nice one.
That's fairly new in my collection.
That's 63, 335 with a bigsby on.
I'm not really.
I haven't played one of those since the early eighties, but I decided I needed one, and that was a really nice one that came up.
But I'm normally a Stratocaster or.
Yeah, normally stratum.
As a former kid of the eighties, seventies and eighties, I remember having in high school this, like, early seventies bone colored strat that I used to play in.
Like, the local garage band sold it for a song.
And it's a guitar where I have this enduring love affair in remembrance of.