Heart Like a Sky is the sixth studio album by English new wave band Spandau Ballet, released on 18 September 1989 by CBS Records.

Gary Kemp alienated some of the band members even further by deciding to receive a separate production credit for the album and discontinuing regular payments of a share of publishing royalties to them, which caused them to file a lawsuit against him.

Although the first of these releases, "Raw", received very good responses from critics, the rest elicited mostly or completely negative reviews.

In October 1987 Spandau Ballet lead guitarist and songwriter Gary Kemp serendipitously reconnected with actress Sadie Frost, who had appeared in the band's videos for "Gold" and "Fight for Ourselves".

The newfound freedom he felt as a result of the relationship recharged his desire to write again, which lead to several songs for their next album, Heart Like a Sky, but the rest of the band was not impressed with the demo cassette he presented.

Kemp wanted to stay in London to be near Frost and also because he and his brother, band bassist Martin Kemp, had accepted the roles of twin gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray in what became the 1990 film The Krays[6] and needed to be there since the rehearsal for the film would coincide with the recording of the album, meaning they would need to take time off from the band.

[7][c] Lead singer Tony Hadley felt that recording their albums away from England had elicited great results and wanted to travel again for this one, but he was outvoted by his bandmates.

[8][d] In his 2004 autobiography To Cut a Long Story Short, he wrote, "I'm convinced that, had we gone away together to make that album, we'd still be on speaking terms now.

Hadley described his emotional state while making the album as a "breakdown" because of the anxiety, sleeplessness, sweaty palms and tightness in the chest he experienced before each recording session.

Because of the amount of work he had put into the demos for the new album, he decided he wanted a production credit that was separate from the band.

[18] Kemp's explanation of its meaning was that it was "about the heart being infinite in its love and grandness, just like the sky," which Hadley, years later, described as "stupid.

[1] During a photo shoot for its cover, Kemp criticized Hadley's choice of clothing and thought the other band members would agree.

[22][p] When the Kemps finished filming and rejoined the band to begin rehearsals for the album's tour, the camaraderie between them and the other members was gone.

[21] The single received mostly positive reviews, with one critic writing that it was "probably their best offering yet"[38] and another describing it as "the stuff of which great comebacks are made.

When the Heart Like a Sky tour ended, Dagger suggested that they do something in the studio to prompt the record company to make an advanced payment on what would have been the next album.

Hadley suggested the Righteous Brothers hit "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", and Kemp wanted to do the Simon and Garfunkel song "The Boxer".

[50][aa] Kemp wrote,[53] The final product was, not surprisingly, bland, with nothing about it that might suddenly reverse Spandau's limp exit from grace.

At the end of the recording there was no group meeting, no plans, no farewell, just a deceitful see-you-later, as I slipped out of the studio, and out of the band.

Kemp further described the fate of Spandau Ballet after recording the song as "an unspoken acceptance that the band would not be working, at least for the foreseeable future.

"[52] Hadley, however, wrote of feeling completely unaware of any sort of dissolution at that point:[49] Despite the problems during the making of Heart Like a Sky, we were still speaking to each other by the end of the process -- just about.

As he speculated that Heart Like a Sky would be their last album, he decided to stop sharing these publishing royalties with the rest of the band.

Martin Kemp mentioned to Hadley and Keeble while having drinks that his brother was going to stop paying the 50 percent of the publishing royalties to the band.

[21][ad] Hadley wrote that he thought Martin was only referring to the royalties from Heart Like a Sky, which he did not think would amount to much.

[55][af] Hadley, Keeble and Norman spoke with a series of attorneys before deciding to take legal action; Martin Kemp was not interested in suing his brother.

The band reunited in 2009,[59] and in a 2015 interview, Hadley said,[60]Looking back, we should never have made the final album – I can't even bear to listen to it.