When it did get issued, it initially had the same tracks as the UK album did, but was quickly replaced with "In My Own Time" and "Normans" being edited.

The Canadian edition was released on the United Artists label after Family had delivered Bandstand the following album, and had an explanatory sticker on the shrink-wrap.

[citation needed] The UK edition of the album came housed in a plastic see-through sleeve with a gatefold non-pocket inner card design by Hamish and Gustav.

The outer illustration was licensed from Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan and was titled 'Mortars With Explosive Projectiles' by Leonardo da Vinci.

Radio One disc jockey John Peel rated "Lives And Ladies" as one of the most powerful anti-war songs he had ever heard, and he was known to play the track long after 1970.