Throwback Thursday: Spear of Destiny and Never Take Me Alive (1987)

I’ll admit that this is kind of obscure, but it was one of the songs I played on the overnight show when I first joined CFNY in the old Spirit of Radio days. I’d never heard of Spear of Destiny and its leader Kirk Brandon. Four singles made the charts in the UK, but only one–this one–cracked the top 20. The album from whence it came, Outland, reached number 16.

Fun fact: Brandon sued Boy George for malicious falsehood after George write in his autobiography that the two of them had a sexual thing in the early 80s, claiming that allegations of him being gay hurt his prospects as a musician. Brandon lost that case. But then he sued over the lyrics in a George song called Unfinished Business where the alleged affair was brought up again. He lost that one, too, and was initially ordered to pay £200,000. That was later reduced to about £20,000. When he was portrayed by an actor in the TV biopic of Boy George Worried About the Boy in 2010, he kept his mouth shut.

The group was formed in London in 1982 and is still active. Their most recent album, Ghost Population (their 15th!), came out in 2022.

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