Spandau Ballet: The Blitz and Beyond Zine and CD
Release date: 20 January, 2026
The Blitz and Beyond Zine and CD, which was exclusively available at the Design Museum, is now available in very limited numbers in the Official Spandau Ballet store.
A brochure featuring many rare and some previously unseen photographs charting the bands exciting, rollercoaster journey from 1978, becoming “Blitz Kids “, performing in the club for the first time, spearheading a movement, becoming the most sought after band in the country, obtaining the biggest record deal ever for an unsigned band and having six hit singles and 2 hit albums by 1982.
With copy and timeline compiled from the diaries of Spandau Ballet’s manager Steve Dagger, band photographer and graphic designer Graham Smith, and journalist Paul Simper, it also features an exclusive 12-track CD sampler taken from the critically acclaimed box set ‘Everything Is Now – Vol 1: 1978-1982’, and is the “companion product”.
12 track CD Everything Is Now: The Early Years 1978-82.
1. To Cut A Long Story Short (7”A-side)
2. The Freeze (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix)
3. Muscle Bound (LP Version)
4. Reformation (Arista Demo)
5. Mandolin
6. Chant No.1 (7”A-side)
7. Paint Me Down (12”A-side)
8. Instinction (7” Trevor Horn Version)
9. Coffee Club (Remix)
10. She Loved Like Diamond
11. Pharaoh
12. Glow
- Formats:
- CD Album
- Label:
- Parlophone