Dream Come True is the fourth album by English new wave band A Flock of Seagulls, released in March 1986 by Jive Records.
With past success in the USA, both brothers thought leaving the UK and a new life in America was a perfect solution.
Mike, Ali and Frank Maudsley all applied for and were conditionally awarded green cards based on celebrity status under the O-1 work visa.
In a 1986 interview with Gary Graff of Free Press Music, Mike noted that, after writing "Heartbeat Like a Drum", he decided the band should become more dance-oriented again.
[7] A large row ensued where Maudsley and Ali wanted to drop "Love on Your Knees" and include "Cosmos."
The tour for the album added Chris Chryssaphis on keyboards and Gary Steadman—formerly of the new wave band Classix Nouveaux—as a replacement for Paul Reynolds on lead guitar.
Music Week called for "hiatus time for the 'Gulls, both artistically and commercially" and summarised, "From the uninspired title to the often cluttered songs, this LP tells the story of a band not quite up to their best.
He felt all the songs "sound very sparse", with "Heartbeat Like a Drum" being "a third rate imitation of Hall & Oates" and "Who's That Girl" containing "some of the most clichéd embarrassingly awful lyrics I've heard".