Tony Hadley
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Tony Hadley (born 2 June 1960) is a British pop singer who fronted the 1980s New Romantic band Spandau Ballet.
After Spandau Ballet disbanded in 1989, Hadley pursued a solo career with considerably less success, signing to EMI records & recording his first album "The State of Play"! After leaving EMI, Tony formed his own record company SlipStream records and his first release was to be the single "Build Me up" from the film "When Saturday Comes"! Shortly after that, in December 1996 Tony embarked on an orchestral tour of Europe along with Joe Cocker, Paul Michiels, Dani Klein and Guo Yue playing to 500,000 people in 6 weeks.
On his return from that tour, Tony signed a joint deal with PolyGram TV and released his next solo album. Beautiful covers and sensitive songs that matched Tony's voice brilliantly, along with some of his own self penned songs such as "She", the song that Tony wrote for his daughter Toni. He is, in fact, the proud father of three children: Thomas, Toni and Mackenzie.
Along with songs such as "Maybe You And I" co-written with his friend and keyboard player Phil Taylor, and the love song "Dance with Me", this album really is a great collection of beautifully arranged performances.
To plug the gap between studio albums, Tony also released a live album recorded in just one night at the now sadly closed "Ronnie Scott's" in Birmingham called "Obsession".
He has also collaborated in the past and present with various dance acts and DJs such as Tin Tin Out, Eddie Lock, Marc et Claude, Reggie Penxton (Milk Inc.) and the Disco Bros. Tony has also played alongside with people such as Alice Cooper, Paul Young, Jon Anderson, Brian May etc. The permanent band line up is of course his old friend John Keeble (drums), Phil Taylor (keys), Phil Williams (bass), Richie Barrett (guitar), and Angie Grant and Shelley Preston on backing vocals. And all these brilliant musicians will feature on Tony's long awaited third studio album "Lobsters and Limousines". It's a long wait but Tony assures me this will be a fantastic collection of original songs written or co-written by him, and performed in his own inimitable style.
In 2003, Tony Hadley was the winner of the ITV "reality TV" series, Reborn in the USA.