It marked the first time in twelve years the band had worked with producer Arif Mardin, and was their first album to be recorded digitally.

After the band's popularity had waned following the infamous Disco Demolition Night of 1979, the Gibb brothers had spent much of the early 1980s writing and producing songs for other artists, as well as pursuing solo projects, and E.S.P.

The album cover photographs show the Gibb brothers at Castlerigg stone circle near Keswick in England's Lake District.

They worked at Maurice's home studio, informally known as Panther House, rather than at Middle Ear.

Maurice liked a hands-on approach and where he had a voice in production he either appears prominently on the finished tracks or worked out arrangements with a few session players during recording.

The album made extensive use of the Fairlight CMI as much of the drumming was programmed using the instrument by Barry and Maurice and their engineer Scott Glasel.

Lastly, session musicians replaced most of the instrumental parts and the brothers dubbed additional vocals.