-I Know This Much- - by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet-s prime mover - is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years.Gary-s story begins in North London, where the Kemp family rented a home with no bathrooms and chickens in the yard. After a couple of failed attempts to kill his brother Martin, his parents gave him a guitar for Christmas.From schoolyard battles between the Bowie Boys and the Prog Rockers to Mrs Kemp-s firm insistence on net curtains, and from acting for the Children-s Film Foundation to manning a fruit and veg stall on Saturdays, Gary brilliantly evokes an upbringing full of love, creativity and optimism.As the Thatcher years begin, Gary-s account of the outrageous London club scene centred around the Blitz and Billy-s is just sizzling. Out of this glamorous mayhem of kilt-wearing mascara-d peacocks would emerge Spandau Ballet - the band that would define the era, and hold high the victorious standard of the New Romantics.Gary-s thrilling
