Helden was an electronic new wave project formed in the summer of 1980 by future successful film-musician Hans Zimmer and Ultravox drummer Warren Cann.
The other songs had vocals by (mostly) Zaine Griff and Linda Jardim (Allan), but also Hugo Vereker and French singer Ronny.
An extremely rare promo tape was completed, dated 1 February 1983 under the working title of “Spies - An act of love”, which included a 15 page background story with lyrics, and featured the following 13 tracks with the original titles: Spies, The Ball, Young & Scientific, A Killing Hand, Pyramids of the Reich, Transmission, Holding, Moonlight in Vermont, 2529, Borderline, Stranded, Movies for Eva, Eva, Fans urged the band to release the album and when that did not happen it was later unofficially released as a bootleg.
A single, Holding On (a vocal duet between Zaine Griff and Linda Jardim) was officially released on their own label ZiCa Records in autumn 1983,[2] followed by "Stranded" in 1985, which came free with issue 19 of In The City magazine.
Ultravox's official fan page announced the Spies album would be released on CD for the first time with bonus material.