Spandau Ballet - Round And Round

What this video is

Released in November 1984 as the fourth and final single from Spandau Ballet's Parade album, 'Round and Round' arrived at a moment when the New Romantic movement was actively dissolving into the broader mid-1980s sophisti-pop mainstream. The band had achieved their commercial zenith with True (1983) and were now navigating how to sustain chart relevance. The video's conceit — a children's school play as the central…

Why it matters

Represents the late-transitional phase of British New Romantic pop into sophisti-pop, where production polish replaced subcultural flamboyance. The video's theatrical, child-centred concept is an early example of narrative displacement in pop video — using surrogate performers (children in…

The director

New Zealand-born film director and painter who grew up in Italy and completed his education in the UK. Began his career as an assistant photographer before transitioning into film editing in the early 1980s, then into writing and directing music videos…