On 6 March 1981, Spandau Ballet released their debut studio album “Journeys to Glory” featuring “To Cut a Long Story Short" “The Freeze" “Mandolin“ and “Muscle Bound".
In 2007 The Guardian included the album on its list of "1000 albums to hear before you die", and in 2020 the album came in at number 25 on Classic Pop magazine's list of the top 40 '80s debut albums. The editors advised checking out the album "if you want to experience the full-on sweaty visceral Spandau". They wrote, "Like Duran's eponymous first LP, this is a scrapbook of their New Romantic phase and stands proudly as a period piece."