Creed Reunites for New Album

After a six-year hiatus, multi-platinum selling Orlando-based rock band Creed have returned with a new record tentatively titled Full Circle.

"We never felt like we weren't together," says frontman Scott Stapp. "We're not looking at this as a reunion. It's more of a rebirth."

Though they stayed in touch through holiday cards and the occasional phone call, the group refrained from recording together in order to, "explore other creative outlets and build the main priority in all of our lives, which is our family," says Stapp.

Indeed, the band has grown up quite a bit, as has Stapp's son Jagger, the muse behind their hit "With Arms Wide Open." "He's not a baby anymore," says the proud papa of the 10-year-old. Stapp now also has a 2-year-old named Milán.

Could another hit about his offspring be on the horizon? Quite possibly. He wrote a tune about his daughter as well, simply titled "Milan Song." "She's my twin soul, my light," he says of his little lady. "I do whatever she wants."

Stapp, who made the initial push for Creed to get back together, says it was awesome to see all the guys in one room again. "I said, 'I love you and if I've ever caused you any pain in your life forgive me.' And they said the same things right back."

With any bad blood dissolved, the guys got back to jamming and planning a summer tour. "We're not trying to stay in a certain place or conform to where we left off," says Stapp. "The music is fresh, edgy, raw, passionate, honest and it rocks."

"It's just the right time and we're all excited!"

Spandau Ballet Announce Reunion Tour

The children of Spandau Ballet's leading members were crucial in getting the '80s pop group back together after two decades of being at odds – and now the British band is set for a tour, they revealed Wednesday.

The formerly feuding band members – brothers Gary and Martin Kemp, Tony Hadley, Steve Norman and John Keeble – credit their kids for stepping in and reuniting them. "My son and Tony's son got together in a pub and said, 'How can we get them back?' " Gary Kemp told reporters Wednesday.

That meeting was one of many in the last two years as the members tried to reboot their musical relationship. They split 20 years ago and a bitter rivalry over royalties ended up in Britain's High Court. Then, Hadley, Norman and Keeble sued Gary Kemp over songwriting payments. The court found for Kemp's case.

Hadley said of the reunion, "There is a realization that time is a great healer." Martin Kemp added, "Families go through terrible times and argue, but in the end we've got back together."

Over the years since they split, the guys, who had a massive worldwide hit with "True" in 1983, now have so many children between them they have enough for "four bands," they joked.

"Mine are just concerned about what we are going to wear in case I embarrass them," Martin Kemp said in a reference to the frilly shirts and kilts they donned at the height of the New Romantic era when they first came to prominence.

The tour of Britain and Ireland kicks off in October, and sources say, they hope to tour America as well. (Tickets are available on the band's website.)

And expect some old-fashioned rivalry to return. The band were often paired off against pop stars Duran Duran during their '80s heyday. Gary Kemp revealed that he "bumped into [Duran Duran's] Nick Rhodes yesterday in London's Soho neighborhood and he asked, " 'When are the dates?' " Letting the chuckles die down, Kemp quipped, "So that they wouldn't clash!"