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===''Parade'' and Live Aid period=== The follow-up album, ''[[Parade (Spandau Ballet album)|Parade]]'', was released in June 1984, and its singles were again big successes in the charts in Europe, Oceania and Canada. The album's opening song, "[[Only When You Leave]]", became the band's last American hit. The band's first top 10 single in Italy was "[[I'll Fly for You]]", a success they repeated later with the singles "[[Fight for Ourselves]]" and "[[Through the Barricades (song)|Through the Barricades]]". At the end of 1984, the band performed on the [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]] charity single alongside chart rivals [[Duran Duran]], [[Culture Club]] and [[Wham!]], and in 1985 performed at [[Wembley Stadium (1924)|Wembley Stadium]] as part of [[Live Aid]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/band-aid-30-years-on-4606099 |title=Band Aid 30 years on: Where are the original stars three decades after the 1984 song was released?|author=Watts, Halina|date=11 November 2014|newspaper=Daily Mirror|access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref> to a global audience estimated at 1.9 billion. The "Spandau Ballet World Parade 84β85" was the group's biggest tour to date, spanning Europe, America, the Far East and, for the first time, Australia and New Zealand. Their UK tour ended with six record-breaking nights at Wembley Arena. During the second show at LA's Universal Amphitheatre, Steve Norman tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee and the rest of the tour was cancelled.<ref>{{Cite book|title=I Know This Much From Soho To Spandau|last=Kemp|first=Gary|publisher=Fourth Estate|year=2009|isbn=978-0-00-732330-2|pages=224β225}}</ref> This also resulted in the cancellation of a proposed summer tour of Spain and Italy and a planned six-week tour of the United States supporting [[The Power Station (band)|the Power Station.]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=New Romantics Who Never Were The Untold Story of Spandau Ballet|last=Barrat|first=David|publisher=Orsam Books|year=2018|isbn=978-0-9570917-2-6|pages=215}}</ref> During this same year, Spandau Ballet achieved platinum status with the compilation ''[[The Singles Collection (Spandau Ballet album)|The Singles Collection]]'', which kept the focus on the band between studio albums and celebrated its five years of success. The album was released by [[Chrysalis Records]] without the band's approval and the band instigated legal action against the label.
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