Spandau Ballet are going right back to the start of their incredible career for their latest release.

As the group’s 40th anniversary celebrations continue, the hitmakers are dropping a limited 12″ vinyl repressing of their first ever single, To Cut A Long Story Short.

Spandau Ballet signed their first recording contract on bassist Martin Kemp’s 18th birthday, back in 1980, and headed straight to Utopia Studios in Primrose Hill, London to cut their debut single.

Within a month the track was released and catapulted the band to stardom, with them featuring on Top of the Pops just two weeks later. To Cut A Long Story Short song is now acknowledged as the very first New Romantic single.

The new release is housed in the original die cut sleeve and pressed on 180g vinyl, featuring the ground breaking extended and dub mixes of the track, mixed by producer Richard James Burgess.

The limited To Cut A Long Story Short reissue drops on November 27th – pre-order yours here.

It comes on the same day Spandau Ballet release 40 Years: The Greatest Hits on 3 CD and 2 LP vinyl, plus digital services. The collection includes all the hits plus album cuts, 12″ versions and a previously unreleased cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic The Boxer recorded in 1990

Since starting out, Spandau Ballet, starring Tony Hadley, Martin and Gary Kemp, Steve Norman and John Keeble notched up 23 hit singles, including True, Gold, Only When You Leave and Through The Barricades.

Pre-order 40 Years: The Greatest Hits now.