The fifth single "Headline Hustler" was released only in the American market to promote a tour in the USA.

The album in its entirety along with 2000's bonus cuts appeared, along with 10cc's second album, "Sheet Music" and all its released bonus cuts, on 2004 10cc – The Complete UK Recordings, on Varèse Sarabande Records.

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "If you only know the forty-five-rpm version of 'Rubber Bullets,' then you missed their best rhyme: 'balls and chains' with 'balls and brains.'

"[2] Record World said of "Headline Hustler" that "'Paperback Writer' goes the daily route.

Englishmen take on Beatles-ish overtones to rock out their saga of a budding Jack Anderson.