The Church, “The Hypnogugue.” In the United States, Australian band The Church is best known for 1988 single “Under the Milky Way,” a dreamy acoustic ballad which topped out at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was the soundtrack for a generation of goth teens applying excessive…

Steve Kilbey (second from left) and The Church. Courtesy photo. Starfish became the best-selling album for Australian alt-rock band The Church, but what frontman Steve Kilbey remembers most from making the 1988 record is how star producers Greg Ladanyi (Fleetwood Mac and Don Henley) and Waddy Wachtel (The Rolling Stones, Jon Bon…