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Martin Kemp

May 2024

  • Roman Kemp sitting on Martin Kemp's shoulders outside with a dramatic sky in 1997 and 2024.

    Flashback
    Martin and Roman Kemp look back: ‘I didn’t want a parent v kid relationship. I wanted us to be equal’

    The musician and actor, and the DJ and presenter, on fame, football and dinner party debates with George Michael

December 2023

  • Adrian Chiles

    How can you tell if someone’s really an atheist? Watch them at a penalty shootout

    Adrian Chiles
    There are times when everyone resorts to prayer, writes Adrian Chiles. Just ask Oti Mabuse or Martin and Shirlie Kemp

November 2022

  • ‘Parenting is all about listening …’ Martin Kemp.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I came second in everything’: Martin Kemp on Spandau Ballet, George Michael and stepping out of his brother’s shadow

    The bass player publishes his third book this month, reflecting on life in one of the 80s biggest bands. He talks about recovering from two brain tumours, acting and why he would like to apologise to Tony Hadley

January 2022

  • Martin Kemp (on left) and Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet, November 2021

    Flashback
    Martin Kemp and Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet look back: ‘We were stern young men who wanted to take over the world’

    The bassist and saxophonist recreate an old photo and look back at a mortifying incident in a German sauna

April 2021

  • Roman Kemp

    Watched with mother
    Roman Kemp: 'I have Bart Simpson's face tattooed on my leg'

    The Capital FM breakfast presenter and son of Martin Kemp recounts his lifelong love of The Simpsons and Friends

July 2017

  • Spandau Ballet (from left to right) Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Tony Hadley, Steve Norman and John Keeble.

    Only when you leave: Tony Hadley quits Spandau Ballet

    Lead singer of band behind hits Gold and True announces departure on social media ‘due to circumstances beyond my control’

November 2014

  • Martin Kemp.

    Watch television with …
    Martin Kemp’s favourite TV

    The actor, presenter and Spandau Ballet bassman on his telly gold and what leaves him cold

October 2014

  • 'Soul Boys Of The Western World' Film Premiere, London, Britain - 30 Sep 2014

    Spandau Ballet review – return of the shoulder-heaving soul boys

    New Romantics parade their 80s pomp at the premiere of a tremendous biopic of the band, writes Ian Gittins

May 2014

  • Spandau Ballet

    Spandau Ballet on Soul Boys of the Western World: 'There's a misconception that we sat around talking about Nietzsche' - video interview

    Spandau Ballet members Tony Hadley, Martin Kemp and Steve Norman and director George Hencken on a new documentary about the 80s new romantic band

August 2013

  • Martin and Gary Kemp

    Kemp brothers to reunite on the big screen 22 years on from The Krays

    Martin and Gary are back, in Danny Dyer gangster movie Assassin

October 2011

  • Martin Kemp

    My Saturday job
    Martin Kemp: my Saturday job

    At the age of 13, Martin Kemp staring working at a greengrocers and became an expert at building tangerine pyramids

October 2009

  • New Romantics Fantasy Ball at the Rainbow, London, Britain - 1981

    Spandau Ballet, the Blitz kids and the birth of the New Romantics

  • Spandau Ballet

    Spandau Ballet's reunion: Once more with girdles

March 2009

  • So true, Spandau Ballet have come back again

  • Spandau Ballet set to reveal comeback

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