"Glow" is a song by the English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 27 March 1981 in the UK as a double A-side single with "Muscle Bound".

Spandau Ballet was already having success on the pop charts as they were completing their first album, Journeys to Glory, but their guitarist/songwriter Gary Kemp was worried that the LP already sounded dated.

[2] In his autobiography I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau, he recalled, "I sat with my guitar in my bedroom, and with the sound of [American disco acts] the Fatback Band and Dr. Buzzard in my head, I ground out a groove and made an attempt to write a song that combined funk with the stark European music that we had created already.

[3] Spandau Ballet saxophonist and percussionist Steve Norman learned to play the conga and bongos very quickly, which allowed them to get the song recorded and released as soon as possible as a way of, as Kemp put it, "announcing our credentials and proving that we were at the epicentre of Soho nightlife".

[12] The band was putting the finishing touches on Journeys to Glory when Kemp started working on "Glow",[13] so it was not on the original 1981 album release.