The song "The Turn of a Friendly Card" is interpolated in "Green Light Means Danger" as well as "When The World Was Young".

"Snake Eyes" is one of several songs that were part of the musical production, but left off the original cast album.

"Golden Key" would later appear on The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was in a version sung by Woolfson.

The plot, inspired by Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel The Gambler[1] as well as Pushkin's Pique Dame,[2] involves a young man entering the Peking Palace Casino and becoming a serious gambler in order to win the affection of a showgirl there, both of whom are being manipulated by the casino boss.

[6] The recording of the German cast was released as a CD in 1997 (with the subtitle "Das Geheimnis der Karten", lit.