Single:
True entered the Australian singles chart* on 8 August 1983 and peaked at #4. The song was #56 on the Top 100 of 1983.
Album:
The song is on True which entered the Australian albums chart* on 23 May 1983 and peaked at #4.
Songwriter:
Gary Kemp
Producers:
Tony Swain, Steve Jolley, Spandau Ballet
Record label of Australian release:
Chrysalis
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Spandau Ballet perform True at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on 13 July 1985:
Songfacts:
The lyrics for True were inspired by a crush Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp had on Altered Images singer Clare Grogan. “I was infatuated with Clare Grogan,” he told The Guardian. “I met her on Top of the Pops and, at one point, travelled up to Scotland to have tea with her and her mum and dad. Although my feelings were unrequited and the relationship was platonic, it was enough to trigger a song.”
Some phrases in the lyrics were adapted from the novel Lolita, a copy of which Clare Grogan had given Gary Kemp.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/spandau-ballet/true
Lyrics:
So true, funny how it seems
Always in time, but never in line for dreams
Head over heels when toe to toe
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound
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