The album was written by popular British production team Stock, Aitken & Waterman and produced four UK hit singles, including the international smash "This Time I Know It's For Real".

Three of these hits later turned up on a Europe-only compilation album entitled The Best of Donna Summer, released in 1990 by Warner Bros. Records.

However, due to the album's popularity and following the re-release of the 1982 hit "State of Independence" a brand new remixed version of "Breakaway" by Phil Harding and Ian Curnow was issued in the single form.

The "Breakaway" US 12" single was backed with the extended version of "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt", which had already been released in the UK as the follow-up to "This Time I Know It's For Real".

In Brazil, packed by the telenovela Despedida de Solteiro the single was her seventh number one in the country and the accompanying music video received extensive airplay and they are, to date, among Summer's most recognizable tunes.