Martin Kemp says Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran had been ”like Oasis and Blur”.
The 58-year-old musician was the bassist for brand spanking new wave band Spandau Ballet, and has mentioned the group’s chart rivalry within the 80s with ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’ hitmakers Duran Duran was much like the notorious feud between heavyweights Oasis and Blur, and The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Martin spoke as he was answering a sequence of powerful questions on his personal previous for NME journal, and was requested about Spandau’s 1984 face-off towards Duran Duran on the TV sequence ‘Pop Quiz’.
When requested what the ultimate rating was, he mentioned: ”I am unable to bear in mind the ultimate rating, however I do know we misplaced towards Duran Duran. That was nice and an iconic present. I used to be at all times happy with the truth that Spandau and Duran Duran had been like Oasis and Blur or The Beatles and the Rolling Stones – the place you choose two bands of a era and also you’re both on one facet or the opposite. But I nonetheless stay by the actual fact I imagine Duran Duran cheated on ‘Pop Quiz’!”
And when reminded that Duran Duran beat the ‘Gold’ hitmakers by 12 factors, Martin recalled the 2 teams being ”ridiculously aggressive”.
He added: ”We had been ridiculously aggressive. Whatever they did, we tried to beat – and vice versa. To the purpose the place it wasn’t nearly what quantity we had been at within the charts, it was about how a lot cash we would spent on our current utterly overpriced movies and which location we went to movie them. Even to the purpose the place we had been as soon as at a celebration and the competitors pathetically became who might keep up the newest.”
However, the teams had been by no means actually enemies, with Martin insisting it was ”solely pleasant” between them.
He clarified: ”Whenever we met the boys, it was solely pleasant – and nonetheless is.”
