Instinction

He thought "Instinction" would be the best choice but thought it needed to be remixed, and Kemp agreed on his selection, acknowledging that "the song had more pop in it than anything we'd ever done". Producer Martin Rushent was fresh off his success with the album Dare by the Human League, but Kemp explained to New Sounds New Styles magazine in 1982 that the band felt they "couldn't" have him do the remix because it "would have been such an obvious thing to do".Bucks Fizz mastermind Andy Hill was also considered for the job, but they settled on Buggles founder Trevor Horn based on the work he had done with the UK pop vocal group Dollar. Horn later said he thought Spandau Ballet's two previous singles were "very ugly", noting, "I thought that, with Tony Hadley's voice, the way the records were mixed hadn't done him any favours at all." When Kemp and Hadley met with Horn to discuss the project, he told them it was a good song, adding, "It's just not produced," and Hadley agreed to Horn's request to re-record his vocals. Meanwhile the One Liners column in the 27 February 1982 issue of Record Mirror magazine reported that "the next Spandau Ballet single will not be produced by Landscape bod Richard Burgess..." That column in the next issue explained that "an unusually calm and polite Steve Dagger called last week to deny that Spandau are dumping producer Richard Burgess." I thought it was going to make me look like the cavalry that comes charging in at the end of the film and saves the wagon train. –Trevor Horn on the band's request that he remix "Instinction" Some band members were especially displeased with the original recording of "Instinction", which was included on the album. Hadley found the production on that version to be "abysmal" and wrote that Spandau drummer John Keeble "reckons it is possibly the worst thing he has ever been associated with." Horn described it as "half-baked" and "in bad shape", theorizing that the criticism that Hadley already endured and the strain from working with Burgess had taken a toll on him and affected his singing. Hadley appreciated working with Horn, who made him feel as though what he had to say was being heard and brought out the best in the band members by focusing on their strengths. According to Kemp, Horn "tore 'Instinction' down and rebuilt it bar by bar." In addition to Hadley's redo, Kemp did more work on backing vocals, guitar and piano, Steve Norman did percussion, and Anne Dudley was brought in to do some additional keyboards as well as harp accompaniment. Horn had Hadley and Kemp assist him with the final mixing of the tracks and later said, "I would have liked 'Instinction' to have been a little more economical, but unfortunately I didn't record it. As with their other successful singles, they were invited to perform it on the British music chart television programme Top of the Pops. Spandau Ballet resumed their partnership with director Russell Mulcahy for the "Instinction" music video but told him there would be no nightclub setting as they had in the clip for "Chant No. 1", no dwarfs like the ones in "Muscle Bound", no Blitz Kids creations to wear as they began doing with "To Cut a Long Story Short" and no role playing. It was time for Spandau Ballet to make a pop video." In the wake of "She Loved Like Diamond", Chris Wright, founder of Chrysalis Records, was ready to give up on Spandau Ballet. I have no doubt that in the current climate, where there is no room for failure, we would have been dropped." Kemp's concern about the Blitz crowd, however, became a reality as their popularity was now considered too mainstream to be of interest to London's nightclub crowd. He now felt free to write without worrying what new trends were popping up on the club scene and was eager to get started. He immediately wanted to try another approach at incorporating the American Jewish music that had an eastern European feel like he had on "She Loved Like Diamond".