Once More is the seventh and final studio album by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 19 October 2009 by Mercury Records.

A judge ruled in favor of his decision in 1999 when bandmates Tony Hadley, John Keeble and Steve Norman filed a lawsuit over the issue.

[7][b] They chose to record acoustic versions of their chart hits, which Norman found to be beneficial in that "it kind of eased us into the studio process together.

"[8] Kemp described the approach they took:[4] I was a bit worried, because I didn't want it to be softer versions of what we're going to do [on tour], so we decided to make it darker and more menacing; "To Cut a Long Story Short" is dark and brooding, and "Chant No.

"[17] Paul Lester of the BBC, however, found fault with several of the updates, complaining that the acoustic treatment was applied to "To Cut a Long Story Short" "to near comical effect", that "Chant No.

1" was "reduced to supper club vamp", that "True" was "far less lavish than the original and thus less compelling", and that "She Loved Like Diamond" was turned into a "generic MOR ballad".

[19] On 18 August 2014 a post on their website explained that the new material consisted of three tracks to be released in October on a compilation titled The Story: The Very Best of Spandau Ballet.