<P> On 3 July 2017, Tony Hadley publicly announced his departure from the band via Twitter . On 6 June 2018, Spandau Ballet announced the singer and actor Ross William Wild as their new lead singer at a ticketed gig at Subterania Club in west London . </P> <P> The band was formed in 1976 as The Cut, with Gary Kemp and Steve Norman on guitar, later saxophone and percussion . Kemp and Norman were attending Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington North London, and were close friends, as they shared a similar interest in music and a common desire to form a band . They were joined by fellow student John Keeble, who met Norman when he stored his drum kit in the school's music room, and the three met regularly at lunchtimes to practice . They were joined by bass player Michael Ellison and by Tony Hadley, who knew Norman, as lead singer . After a few months, Richard Miller replaced Ellison on bass, before Kemp's younger brother Martin Kemp took over the role a couple of years later . By this time, the band had already gained some live experience . Steve Dagger, a close school friend of the band members, was asked by Norman and Gary Kemp to manage them . He was to be an integral part of the band's success . </P> <P> The band changed its name to The Makers in late - 1976 and played as a punk band at the Roxy in their early years . In 1978 they became a power pop band and changed the name to Gentry, under which they played a few gigs, including at Kingsway College . They changed the band's name to Spandau Ballet after a friend of the band, journalist and DJ Robert Elms, saw the phrase "Spandau Ballet" scrawled on the wall of a nightclub lavatory during a visit to Berlin . </P> <P> The new Spandau Ballet, with Martin Kemp and Hadley, began performing with this name around London . Their music had been in the style of the early Rolling Stones or The Kinks, but became more electronic after they attended clubs such as Billy's and Blitz where the New Romantic scene was spearheaded and they listened to bands like Kraftwerk and Telex . </P>

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