True (song)
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True is a song by Spandau Ballet from the year 1983 , that of Gary Kemp was written and on the eponymous album was released.
history
Gary Kemp wrote True in the home he was living in at the time. In the album version which lasts New Wave - Ballad six minutes and serves in part as a tribute to Marvin Gaye , who helped according to the text, the music genre Soul to establish. The song was recorded in 1982, two years before Marvin Gaye's murder, and focuses Kemps platonic relationship for Altered Images - singer Clare Grogan . Some sentences are also based on the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (including the term: Seaside Arms, German about: Arme am Meer) , of which Grogan Kemp gave a copy.
The single True was released on April 11, 1983 and became a number one hit in Great Britain, Ireland and Canada .
In 1985 Spandau Ballet sang the song at the Live Aid benefit concert . In 2015, many Britons voted True as a favorite among British number one hits of the 1980s in a poll conducted by ITV . In addition, the song was used in programs such as The Simpsons (Episode: Future-Drama ), Veronica Mars , Modern Family and Defiance , the films This is only allowed as an adult , A wedding to fall in love (sung by Steve Buscemi ), The Monster Uni ( in a trailer) and Pixels as well as the game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain .
Cover versions
- 1991: PM Dawn (Set Adrift on Memory Bliss)
- 1997: Queen Pen (It's True)
- 2001: Laure Sainclair (Vous)
- 2003: Doc Gynéco (taxi)
- 2004: will.i.am feat. Fergie
- 2004: Nelly (rapper) (N Dey Say)
- 2005: Paul Anka
- 2005: Cary Brothers
- 2006: Thomas Anders
- 2006: Royal Melody (One Night)
- 2011: Nora En Pure
- 2012: Conor Maynard
- 2015: Nora En Pure (Saltwater Radio Rework)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: DE, CH, US UK