Spandau Ballet – Through The Barricades (VG/VG+) – LP, AU 1986

Through The Barricades is an LP by Spandau Ballet from 1986 released on the CBS label.

About this album

Through The Barricades shows Spandau Ballet moving beyond glossy chart-pop into a more serious, emotionally charged sound. Issued in 1986, it followed the group’s early New Romantic success and became their last studio album of the decade, with the title track standing out as one of their best-known songs. Built around Tony Hadley’s dramatic vocals and the Kemp brothers’ songwriting, the album balances polished pop-rock with synth-pop textures and a stronger sense of conflict and reflection than the band’s earlier work. Its place in the mid-80s pop landscape helped confirm Spandau Ballet as one of the era’s most distinctive British mainstream acts.