Listened to your review with interest as a die hard Spandau fan for over 40 years. Have to agree with you that this album did signal the end of their peak in the 80s. It was impossible to replicate the commercial success of True. Their follow up album Parade was a good album but Barricades highlighted that the 80s was coming to an end and they were running out of steam. They went from the blue eyed soul sound of True to as you comment, a more rockier sound and image. By the time they got to 1988 recording their last studio album, Heart Like A Sky, it was done reluctantly and the band’s heart wasn’t really in it.
Listened to your review with interest as a die hard Spandau fan for over 40 years. Have to agree with you that this album did signal the end of their peak in the 80s. It was impossible to replicate the commercial success of True. Their follow up album Parade was a good album but Barricades highlighted that the 80s was coming to an end and they were running out of steam. They went from the blue eyed soul sound of True to as you comment, a more rockier sound and image. By the time they got to 1988 recording their last studio album, Heart Like A Sky, it was done reluctantly and the band’s heart wasn’t really in it.
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