What, the jokey interlude where Martin alluded to a three-way marriage with wife Shirlie Holliman and Pepsi deMacque-Crockett, her former fellow Wham! backing singer? “Yeah, I didn’t find that funny. I found that uncomfortable. Because I know Martin, Shirlie, Pepsi. That to me is not comedy.”

Which begs the question: what actually happened? “I’ve never said, and I’m not going to say now,” Hadley says, shrugging. “But they entered on a course of action. And they’ve been on TV and they’ve been interviewed and the say, ‘Well, things just weren’t [right].’ But I really wish someone would just say, ‘What did you do to Tony to make him leave the band?’ I didn’t want to leave the band.”

OK, I say – why don’t you say it now? “I’m not gonna,” Hadley answers, with just a hint of a pout. “It’s not for me. It’s for them to say what they did to me. The ball’s in their court. And I really do wish that a journalist at some point would say, ‘Come on guys. Just be honest. Why did he leave the band?’ Because you don’t leave a band like Spandau Ballet on a whim. It’s a big band. It’s a brand. Anyway, ask them one day. Have an interview with Gary, or Martin, and see ’em squirm, ha ha!”

What would it take now to initiate another reconciliation? “Nothing. I’m not a terribly nostalgic person, which sounds really weird considering I just made this book. But I do not go back and listen to old Spandau Ballet records. I don’t go back and listen to Tony Hadley records. Once I’ve done it, and once I’m happy with the mix, and I think I’ve done a good job, then I’m moving on to the next project. I’ve got hardly any memorabilia at all. 

“I just look forward to tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. I’ve never been any different. I mean, in some ways, I don’t think I’m the full ticket!” Tony Hadley chuckles. “But you got to be happy. And the one thing I’m happy in is music. Unfortunately, not with the boys, ha ha!”

My Life In Pictures (Omnibus Press), published on April 21, is available from Telegraph Books priced £20