As The Church had consistently enjoyed more commercial success abroad than at home in Australia, Arista pushed for the band to record their next album, Starfish, in Los Angeles with a couple of well-known session guitarists/engineers/producers, Waddy Wachtel and Greg Ladanyi, who, with résumés filled with names such as Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, and Fleetwood Mac, seemed, at the time, a strange fit for a group of Aussie psych-rockers with a taste for the esoteric. from Arista in early 1987, they quickly decided to reform the band. About a week later the call came through: 'your album has been postponed indefinitely.'' At this point, the various members of The Church decided to go their own separate ways, several intending to focus on solo projects however, when they quite unexpectedly garnered major-label interest in the U.S.

As Kilbey recalls, 'One day I went into EMI and met the big chief who was this big fat fellow with a gold chain around his neck I don't think he had ever thought about the Church before and suddenly he became aware of this irritating little mosquito that was on his label. I was writing not-so-good songs and the band wasn't playing them very well, so everyone's enthusiasm just waned.' While the process of creating Heyday gave The Church a creative second-wind, the album failed to break through commercially as a result, the band was unceremoniously jettisoned by their record label, EMI. Steve Kilbey: 'I think we released a few dud records that weren't as good as they should have been, after The Blurred Crusade, the band was just drifting along in a sea of apathy. The Church's fourth album, Heyday, released in 1986, was a pivotal experience for the band, as it marked the first time they had attempted to write an album collectively (previous to this, Steve Kilbey had served as the primary song-writer), and they did so despite the fact that going in to the recording sessions, the band was on the verge of disintegration. 'The pursuit of adulation is your butter and your bread it's an exquisite corpse and its lips are red, and its teeth are glistening.'

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