About the band: Spandau Ballet were a British pop band formed in 1979. They quickly became popular as one of the leaders of the New Romantics movement. They released seven studio albums and scored eight top 10 hits in the UK. Spandau Ballet currently have one song in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: this song is the title track of the 1986 album Through the barricades. An immensely moving acoustic ballad, inspired by the tragic situation in Northern Ireland - a bewildering choice of subject if you know them only from simple love songs like Gold and True. Run time 5:56.
