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Gary, Johnny and Charles

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Marc Myers
Dec 30, 2017
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The Wall Street Journal this week, my "Anatomy of a Song" column this month is on Spandau Ballet's True from 1983 (go here). I interviewed the band's co-founder and True's sole songwriter Gary Kemp. You'll never believe the role the Beatles' Dig a Pony played. Here's the song... 

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