Subsequently, in October 1976, "Maid in Heaven" reached number 36 in the UK singles charts as the lead track on the Hot Valves EP.

John Rockwell started his article with a fairly scathing dismissal of English musical acts: "Every month or is it week?

seems to bring a new rock band from Britain, eager to catch a few leftover crumbs from the Anglophilia of the 1960s.

Most fail completely; others latch onto an FM cult success; a very few, unpredictably, make it big..."[8]Although his opening seems to dismiss British music as hanging on to fame gained during the 1960s, Rockwell goes on to say: "Be-Bop Deluxe is redeemed by the brilliance of [the band's] playing, and particularly Nelson's guitar playing.

"[8]In The Rough Guide to Rock, Peter Buckley described the album as: "Top-heavy with massed guitars and melodic ideas pursued on a whim and just as quickly abandoned, it nevertheless contained two of the most perfect pop singles never to make the charts – 'Maid in Heaven' and 'Sister Seagull'.