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"True" is a song by the English band Spandau Ballet. It was released on 14 April 1983 as the third single from their third studio album of the same name. The song was a huge worldwide hit, peaking at number one in the UK Singles Chart on 30 April 1983 for four weeks, becoming the sixth biggest selling single of the year, and charting highly in 20 other countries. It is Spandau Ballet's biggest hit and their most remembered song in the U.S., reaching number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the autumn of 1983 and topping the adult contemporary chart for one week. In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's tenth favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. In 1985, the band performed the song during Live Aid. A new mix by Tony Swain and Gary Kemp was released in 2002 on the compilation album ''Reformation''. On 30 April 2008, the single celebrated its 25th anniversary, and in honour, EMI released a brand new ''True'' EP on 5 May 2008, which included the original single, the new mix found on ''Reformation'' and the remastered album version, plus a live recordings of "True" and "Gold" from the last show of the group's 1983 tour at Sadlers Wells. Band member Steve Norman performed the saxophone solo midway through the song. ==Background and writing== It was composed by group leader Gary Kemp who wrote the song at his parents' house, where he lived at the time. It is a six-minute (in its original album version) slow pop-ballad love song that in part pays tribute to the Motown artist Marvin Gaye, who is mentioned in the lyrics, and the sound he helped to establish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Band )〕 The song was recorded before Gaye's murder a year later. The song was also partly about Kemp's platonic relationship with Altered Images singer Clare Grogan. Some phrases in the lyrics (including the much-quoted reference to "seaside arms") were adapted from Vladimir Nabokov's novel ''Lolita'', a copy of which Grogan had given Kemp. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「True (Spandau Ballet song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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