“Once More” is the seventh studio album by British band Spandau Ballet. It was released by Mercury Records on 19 October 2009 in UK and Ireland. The album includes eleven re-recordings from their back catalogue and two newly written songs. The first single, the title track “Once More”, one of the two brand new songs, was released as a promotional single on 5 October 2009 and as a digital download on the same day as the album was released. The music video for “Once More” was filmed. The album debuted at number 7 on the UK Album Chart on 25 October 2009. Once More is the first new recording by Spandau Ballet since 1989. Eleven of the thirteen tracks are re-recordings of previously recorded songs by the group. The first and the last track on the album, “Once More” and “Love is All” are new songs written during the band’s reunion. The title track is written by Gary Kemp and Steve Norman, while “Love is All” is the first Spandau Ballet song written by Tony Hadley.[5] The album is produced by Danton Supple, who co-produced Coldplay’s X&Y album. Singer Tony Hadley said about the new recordings: “When we got back together and the tour dates went on sale, none of us could believe the fantastic reaction we got from fans and the press alike. When the opportunity came to get into a studio and play music together, we couldn’t pass it up.” Gary Kemp said about the title track that “the new song was a way for us to show that Spandau Ballet are back, not just to play the hits on tour but also to take on our contemporaries in the pop charts!” The re-recordings of the eleven older songs are made in a semi-acoustic, unplugged-like style, which gives their songs a 21st-century flavour, according to sax player Steve Norman, taking them to some “very dark, different place”. According to Gary Kemp the sound of the album is not only the sound of Spandau Ballet reinvented for the 21st century, but also “how we would have made these songs the first time around if we had the maturity and know-how to achieve it”. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Spandau Ballet – Once More Songtext:
I don’t want to let you down.
I just want the chance to turn myself around.
I keep searching for the sound.
I don’t want to do you wrong.
I just want to take us back where we belong.
We were hot and we were oh so strong.
Ooh I know we will make it if we try.
Reach for the stars and we can touch the sky.
Darling, once more, won’t you give me one more time.
Say these words together.
I need you more than ever.
Trying once more.
One more chance to make it right.
Never say never, let’s rise up together, take on the world.
I don’t want to change a thing .
Who don’t want to change this whisper to a scream.
Same old song in a different dream.
Sorry I stole the show.
I can’t believe I had your heart and let it go.
I always loved you but I didn’t know.
Ooh there’s nothing standing in our way.
We’ve got the love but do we want to play.
Darling, once more, won’t you give me one more time.
Say these words together.
I need you more than ever.
Trying once more.
One more chance to make it right.
Never say never, let’s rise up together, take on the world.
