Editing Spandau Ballet (section)

===''Through the Barricades''===
After a bitter court case with Chrysalis, Spandau Ballet signed to [[CBS Records International|CBS Records]] for £1.5 million in 1986 and released their fifth studio album, ''Through the Barricades''. With producer [[Gary Langan]], the band moved away from their pop and soul influences to create a stadium rock sound. A dispute between [[Our Price Records]] and Sony over trading arrangements resulted in the Our Price chain and its chart return shops refusing to stock any CBS singles, which affected the record sales of their first single release, "[[Fight for Ourselves]]".<ref>{{Cite book|title=New Romantics Who Never Were The Untold Story of Spandau Ballet|last=Barrat|first=David|publisher=Orsam Books|year=2018|isbn=978-0-9570917-2-6|pages=217}}</ref> Though it peaked at 15 in the UK, it was a top 10 hit in Italy and the Netherlands. The title track, a personal favourite of Kemp and Hadley and inspired by the killing of a friend, Thomas "Kidso" Reilly in [[Belfast]] by [[Private (rank)|Private]] Ian Thain,<ref>{{Cite book|title=I Know This Much From Soho To Spandau|last=Kemp|first=Gary|publisher=Fourth Estate|year=2009|isbn=978-0-00-732330-2|pages=235–237}}</ref> reached the top 10 in the UK and in Europe, as did the album.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/through-the-barricades-mw0000191791|title=Spandau Ballet: Through the Barricades|author=Leroy, Dan|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref>

This was followed in 1986/87 by the band's largest European concert tour to date, "Through the Barricades – Across the Borders", with six record-breaking nights at the [[Rotterdam Ahoy|Ahoy]] Stadium in Rotterdam, another six nights at London's Wembley Arena, 80,000 at [[Casa de Campo]] in Madrid and 50,000 at an open-air concert in Treviso.<ref>{{Cite book|title=I Know This Much From Soho To Spandau|last=Kemp|first=Gary|publisher=Fourth Estate|year=2009|isbn=978-0-00-732330-2|pages=250–251}}</ref> Hadley and Gary Kemp performed "Through the Barricades" for the Prince's Trust at Wembley Arena with the 'house band' of [[Eric Clapton]], [[Midge Ure]] and [[Phil Collins]], and "[[With a Little Help from My Friends]]" with [[George Harrison]] and [[Ringo Starr]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=I Know This Much From Soho To Spandau|last=Kemp|first=Gary|publisher=Fourth Estate|year=2009|isbn=978-0-00-732330-2|pages=254}}</ref> In 1988, the band played for the King of Spain in front of the Royal Palace in Barcelona, on the same bill as [[Freddie Mercury]] and [[Montserrat Caballé]], to launch the campaign for the [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Olympics]].