A new box set will trace the early years of U.K. New Wave icons Spandau Ballet - offering three formats in one package.

Everything is Now - Vol. 1: 1978-1982 will collect albums, singles, live material, demos and videos from the group's earliest period as a 6CD/Blu-ray/2LP set. The box will offer new vinyl pressings of the band's first two LPs, Journeys to Glory (1981) and Diamond (1982); collections of 7" and 12" material from each album on CD; a rare full remix of Diamond issued on a 12" box set edition of the album and available for the first time on CD in full; two discs of BBC sessions and concert recordings (including an unissued 1982 set at the Paris Theatre in London); seven unissued demos; music videos; new Dolby Atmos, stereo and instrumental remixes of select tracks by Steven Wilson; video of their first live set in America and more. All five original members of the group have participated in the set's creation, offering quoted insights in the 44-page booklet accompanied by original images and artwork from photographer Graham Smith. (A limited number of copies available at the official store will be signed by the band, too.)

Formed by guitarist/keyboardist Gary Kemp, his brother Martin on bass, singer Tony Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble, Spandau Ballet represented British post-punk's shift toward electronic-assisted, danceable rock. The group were at the epicenter of that sea change as regular attendees of the London club the Blitz, whose Tuesday night events - masterminded by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan of Visage - became the nucleus of the New Romantic scene. (Other "Blitz Kids" included Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama, members of Sigue Sigue Sputnik and the Blitz's cloakroom attendant George O'Dowd, who you might know as Boy George of Culture Club.)

Spandau signed to Chrysalis after a series of high profile "secret" gigs, including one on the deck of the decommissioned naval ship HMS Belfast (footage of which is featured on the Everything is Now Blu-ray). Their first two albums, Journeys to Glory and Diamond, were produced by Richard James Burgess (now the CEO of the American Association of Independent Music, or A2IM) and earned gold status in England, spinning off the Top 10 hits "To Cut a Long Story Short," "Muscle Bound," "Glow," "Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)" and "Instinction" (the latter remixed for single release by Trevor Horn of The Buggles). In 1981, the band played a showcase for British fashion cooperative Axiom (which included designer, Blitz Kid and future soul legend Sade Adu) at the Underground Club in New York City. This first American gig is included on the set's Blu-ray, one of the centerpieces of unreleased material alongside the group's earliest demos.

The band started to move in a decidedly more sophistipop direction after Diamond, with the title track to third album True not only topping the U.K. charts but becoming their sole Top 10 in America. The group went on hiatus for nearly 20 years starting in 1990, reforming and touring for nearly another decade from 2009 onward. (Hadley left the group in 2017, and Spandau continued for two years with another vocalist.) Hadley has toured the U.K. as a soloist, while Gary Kemp now plays guitar in Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, the former Pink Floyd drummer's all-star tribute to the group's early years.

Everything is Now will be released September 12, coinciding with a retrospective exhibition on the Blitz held at London's Design Museum through March 2026. The full track list and pre-order links are below; as an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Everything is Now - Vol. 1: 1978-1982 (Parlophone/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (signed))

CD 1: Journeys to Glory singles

1. To Cut a Long Story Short
2. The Freeze (7" Version)
3. Muscle Bound (7" Version)
4. Glow (7" Version)
5. To Cut a Long Story Short (Version)
6. The Freeze (Version)
7. To Cut a Long Story Short (Mix 1)
8. To Cut a Long Story Short (Version/Mix 2)
9. The Freeze
10. The Freeze (Special Mix)
11. Glow (12" Version)
12. Muscle Bound

Tracks 1 and 5 released as Reformation/Chrysalis single CHS 2473, 1980
Tracks 2 and 6 released as Reformation/Chrysalis single CHS 2486, 1981
Tracks 3-4 released as Reformation/Chrysalis single CHS 2509, 1981
Tracks 7-8 released as Reformation/Chrysalis 12" single 12 CHS 2473, 1980
Tracks 9-10 released as Reformation/Chrysalis 12" single 12 CHS 2486, 1981
Tracks 11-12 released as Reformation/Chrysalis 12" single 12 CHS 2509, 1981

CD 2: Diamond singles

1. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
2. Paint Me Down
3. She Loved Like Diamond
4. Instinction (7" Trevor Horn Version)
5. Feel the Chant (Short)
6. Man with Guitar
7. Gently
8. She Loved Like Diamond (Instrumental)
9. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) (Extended Mix)
10. Feel the Chant (Long)
11. Paint Me Down (12" Version)
12. Re-Paint

Tracks 1 and 5 released as Reformation/Chrysalis single CHS 2528, 1981
Tracks 2 and 6 released as Reformation/Chrysalis single CHS 2560, 1981
Tracks 3 and 8 released as Reformation/Chrysalis single CHS 2585, 1982
Tracks 4 and 7 released as Reformation/Chrysalis single CHS 2602, 1982
Tracks 9-10 released as Reformation/Chrysalis 12" single 12 CHS 2528, 1981
Tracks 11-12 released as Reformation/Chrysalis 12" single 12 CHS 2560, 1981

CD 3: Diamond box set remix (released as Reformation/Chrysalis C BOX 1353, 1982)

1. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) (Remix)
2. Instinction (Remix)
3. Paint Me Down (Remix)
4. Coffee Club (Remix)
5. She Loved Like Diamond (Remix)
6. Pharaoh (Remix)
7. Innocence and Science (Remix)
8. Missionary (Remix)

CD 4: BBC Sessions and In Concert

1. The Freeze (BBC Session - 3/15/1981)
2. Mandolin (BBC Session - 3/15/1981)
3. Muscle Bound (BBC Session - 3/15/1981)
4. Glow (BBC Session - 3/15/1981)
5. The Freeze (Live at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England - 4/19/1982)
6. She Loved Like Diamond (Live at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England - 4/19/1982)
7. To Cut a Long Story Short (Live at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England - 4/19/1982)
8. Glow (Live at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England - 4/19/1982)
9. Paint Me Down (Live at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England - 4/19/1982)
10. Instinction/Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) (Live at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England - 4/19/1982)

Tracks 1-4 released on Journeys to Glory (Special Edition) - Chrysalis/EMI 50999 6 26750 2 4, 2010
Tracks 5-10 released on Diamond (Special Edition) - Chrysalis/EMI 50999 6 26754 2 0, 2010

CD 5: BBC in Concert - Live at The Paris Theatre, Regent Street - 4/7/1982 (previously unreleased)

1. Instinction (Version 1)
2. The Freeze
3. She Loved Like Diamond
4. To Cut a Long Story Short
5. Pharaoh
6. Glow
7. Muscle Bound
8. Confused
9. Paint Me Down
10. Coffee Club
11. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
12. Instinction (Version 2)
13. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) (Reprise)

CD 6: Demos (previously unreleased)

1. Toys (Gantry Demo - Halligan Studios, 103 Holloway Road, 1979)
2. Age of Blows (Gantry Demo - Halligan Studios, 103 Holloway Road, 1979)
3. Eyes (Gantry Demo - Halligan Studios, 103 Holloway Road, 1979)
4. To Cut a Long Story Short (Arista Demo - Pathway Studios, Islington - 8/31/1980)
5. The Freeze (Arista Demo - Pathway Studios, Islington - 8/31/1980)
6. Confused (Arista Demo - Pathway Studios, Islington - 8/31/1980)
7. Reformation (Arista Demo - Pathway Studios, Islington - 8/31/1980)

Blu-ray

Dolby Atmos, Stereo and Instrumental Remixes by Steven Wilson

1. To Cut a Long Story Short
2. The Freeze
3. Muscle Bound
4. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
5. Paint Me Down
6. Instinction

Promo Videos

1. To Cut a Long Story Short
2. The Freeze
3. Muscle Bound
4. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
5. Paint Me Down
6. She Loved Like Diamond
7. Instinction

The Old Grey Whistle Test - BBC, 1982

1. She Loved Like Diamond
2. Coffee Club

Live at The Underground Club, New York, NY - 5/6/1981

1. Interview with Pat Wadsley
2. Intro by Jim Fouratt
3. The Freeze
4. Mandolin
5. Reformation
6. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
7. Toys
8. Age of Blows
9. Muscle Bound
10. Confused
11. To Cut a Long Story Short
12. Glow

Extra Footage

1. To Cut a Long Story Short (Live at HMS Belfast - 7/26/1980)

LP 1: Journeys to Glory (released as Reformation/Chrysalis CHR 1331, 1981)

Side A

1. To Cut a Long Story Short
2. Reformation
3. Mandolin
4. Muscle Bound

Side B

1. Age of Blows
2. The Freeze
3. Confused
4. Toys

LP 2: Diamond (released as Reformation/Chrysalis CHR 1353, 1982)

Side A

1. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
2. Instinction
3. Paint Me Down
4. Coffee Club

Side B

1. She Loved Like Diamond
2. Pharaoh
3. Innocence and Science
4. Missionary