Steve Norman needs Spandau Ballet to do a “farewell tour” to carry “closure” for the band – and so he can get an image of his group mates hugging to make use of at his funeral.
Spandau Ballet’s multi-instrumentalist Steve Norman
The legendary new wave band’s authentic line-up – Tony Hadley (lead vocals), Martin Kemp (bassist), Gary Kemp (lead guitarist and principal songwriter), John Keeble (drummer) and Steve (multi-instrumentalist) – haven’t carried out collectively since their Soul Boys of the Western World Tour in 2015, however Tony give up the group in 2017 because of “circumstances past my management”.
However Steve needs his True bandmates to come back collectively one final time to shut the curtain on their illustrious profession as a result of it “is smart”.
He completely instructed BANG Showbiz at Blitz: the membership that formed the 80s exhibition launch at The Design Museum, London, on Wednesday (17.09.25): “It could be beautiful however, fairly frankly, I strive not to consider [a reunion] as a result of I’ve thought of it for too lengthy through the years.”
Quizzed why he has prevented interested by the fivesome getting again collectively, the group’s co-founding member and songwriter continued: “As a result of it is smart.
“I’ve all the time need Spandau to do a farewell tour, it might be closure – not only for followers as a result of we by no means break up up, however it might be closure for the band.”
Steve joked he needs to get a photograph of him, Tony, 65, Martin, 63, Gary, 65, and John, 66, hugging one another so he can use it at his funeral.
The Gold hitmaker quipped: “We are able to hug one another, and have that {photograph} taken [to use] at one among our funerals!”
Spandau Ballet made their debut because the in-house band at short-lived nightspot The Blitz Membership – an essential landmark in youth tradition and the place the New Romantic Scene started – and Steve hailed the membership because the band’s launchpad.
He stated: “It was our springboard. It turned a motion that we may latch ourselves onto and be part of it.”
And the star thinks the look and sound of the Eighties may have been completely different if The Blitz Membership had not existed.
Steve added: “Who is aware of what may have occurred if that hadn’t occurred.
“The entire look of the Eighties would have been completely different, and the sound of it with out all of the electronica, you recognize.
“It was the likes of [The Blitz Club’s co-founders] Rusty [Egan] and Steve [Strange] and all of the folks that basically that got here up with this, and had been there on the time, spreading that spherical.”
Blitz: the membership that formed the 80s opens at The Design Museum on September 20, 2025 and runs till March 29, 2026.