Ticket to the World: My new music memoir behind-the-scenes of Spandau Ballet and the 80s

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I loved hearing hearing how Band Aid and Live Aid came about, including that infamous rivalry between Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. Kemp, who plays bass guitar, continues: “We all knew what part we had to play, but I always felt my part was probably smaller in a way than everyone else’s.

Martin Kemp to share his ‘80s Story’ in new memoir Martin Kemp to share his ‘80s Story’ in new memoir

And I don’t like the way that we used to group up on Tony, and I feel guilty about that … If it was me, I think it would have been too much for me. Kemp thinks he gets his approach from his own father, a printer, who was encouraging and nonjudgmental. It’s this sense of self-renewal that has allowed him to look back at himself as “somebody else”, with unflinching honesty and – occasionally – guilt.They reunited in 2009, but lead singer Tony Hadley left in 2017 and it’s a subject Kemp doesn’t want to discuss today. I try to do the gym when I’m not working, which at the moment seems to be never, but when I do stop that’s the way I get some head space. When you are 18 and 19, with thousands of kids banging on the windows, you are laughing at those moments.

Ticket to the World: My new music memoir behind-the-scenes of

It covers the whole 1980s decade from his band Spandau Ballet forming at the start of the 80s to breaking up at the end, with some other context about things that were happening in the world at the time. It was great to hear how the band got started, the people he met along the way and how success exploded and changed their lives! We were primarily a drinking band, working-class kids who were looking after one another all the time. Fist fights sound like a failure of mediation, but maybe they were the best form of communication available.Martin read the introduction to this and then it switched to someone else which I was disappointed with.