To promote Footprint in America, Wright performed the song "Two Faced Man" on The Dick Cavett Show, backed by his short-lived band Wonderwheel, with Harrison as guest guitarist.

After recording and touring with Wonderwheel through 1972, Wright rejoined his former band Spooky Tooth, before returning as a solo artist with his breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975).

After leaving the band Spooky Tooth in January 1970,[1] American keyboard player Gary Wright remained in London and recorded his debut solo album, Extraction (1970),[2] with musicians such as guitarist Hugh McCracken, German bassist Klaus Voormann and future Yes drummer Alan White.

[22] Other musicians at the sessions were drummers Jim Keltner and Colin Allen,[18] along with Mick Jones (guitar) and Bryson Graham (drums),[23] both members of Wright's new back-up band, Wonderwheel.

[11] In his biography of Harrison, Leng notes the influence of "Love to Survive" on the ex-Beatle's subsequent songwriting, particularly "That Is All", released on Living in the Material World (1973).

[26] Wright has described "Stand for Your Rights", the album's advance single,[27] as "a call for people to change their paradigms and unite, a reaction to the Vietnam War, and the upheaval of social values at the time".

[38][deprecated source] On November 23, as part of his promotion for the album, Wright and Wonderwheel performed "Two Faced Man" on The Dick Cavett Show in New York.

[22] Harrison was on Cavett's show primarily to promote the Ravi Shankar documentary Raga (1971),[41] but he had arranged for Wright's band to make its US television debut.

[42] In a 2009 interview with vintagerock.com, Wright acknowledged Harrison's efforts to help him during this period of his solo career, and cited the former Beatle's assistance on Footprint and "having me on the Dick Cavett Show".

[43] Wright recalls in his autobiography that, despite A&M and the music press being enthusiastic about the potential of "Stand for Our Rights" and Harrison's involvement, neither the single nor the album met with any commercial success – a situation that "stunned" him after the failure of Extraction the previous year.

'"[11] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote: "Like his mentor, George O'Hara, Gary makes his spiritual home right next to his musical one, close by that great echo chamber in the sky.

[1] After another brief tenure with Spooky Tooth, Wright returned to his solo career in 1974,[52] and achieved significant commercial success with his first album on Warner Bros. Records, The Dream Weaver (1975).

[56] Before then, "Stand for Our Rights", "Two Faced Man", "Love to Survive" and "Fascinating Things" had appeared on That Was Only Yesterday, a 1976[51] compilation by A&M that combined tracks from Wright's solo career with recordings by Spooky Tooth.