 In the summer of 1986, the band played to their biggest ever audience as special guests to Queen at a festival in Germany attended by a crowd of over 150,000 people.The band were also offered the "Highlander" soundtrack but turned it down because of their world tour, a missed opportunity which Rothery later claimed to regret.The fourth studio album, "Clutching at Straws", shed some of its predecessor's pop stylings and retreated into a darker exploration of excess, alcoholism, and life on the road, representing the strains of constant touring that would result in the departure of Fish to pursue a solo career.