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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

Tony Hadley

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tony Hadley talks to Colin Murray about the beginning, middle and end of Spandau Ballet; being on stage with Freddie Mercury; meeting his heroes at Live Aid; and why he likes watching open heart surgery. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday, 10.30pm to 1am – or available whenever you want via the BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0

Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to tell you why I love podcasting.

0:04.5

I'm Sasha Johansson, I'm an Assistant Commissioner for the BBC and I work on making podcasts.

0:11.1

My real passion is discovering unbelievable on her stories and working with the biggest

0:16.9

stars who can really bring those stories to life.

0:20.1

I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final

0:26.0

edit.

0:27.0

There's nothing like it.

0:28.0

What makes BBC podcast special is that we're working for you, so whatever we commission

0:32.6

has to reflect the things that you care about and love, wherever you are in the UK.

0:37.0

So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover.

0:40.6

Have a listen on BBC Sounds.

0:42.5

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:50.2

Hello, welcome to another Midnight Mids, thank you very much for listening and we're

0:54.4

on another music tip this time.

0:57.2

It's Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet or not as the case may be and likely that's it forever.

1:03.0

That'll be past tense forever more.

1:05.4

They're a band to work quite simply huge in the 80s, first in the UK and then across

1:10.3

the world, conquering the USA and their hits.

1:13.8

Well, all these decades later still get pled wall to wall on the radio.

1:18.8

But of course, they've broken up, got back together, broken up again several times.

1:23.1

So in this Midnight Mids, we don't just troll the usual topics, but we get a real insight

1:27.6

into Tony Hadley and very much stick to his side of the story.

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