Love Makes the World Go Round and Falling Calling, both written by Clarke and Terry Sylvester, were older tunes from the abandoned stage musical Oh Flux!.

Session musicians on the album included Duffy Power (harmonica on Down on the Road) and Jim Jewell (tenor saxophone on It's A Shame, It's A Game and Transatlantic Westbound Jet).

The non-album track from these sessions named No More Riders, written by Terry Sylvester and Cat Stevens' elder brother David Gordon, was issued as the B-side of the single.

With the help of the worldwide success of the single The Air That I Breathe, the album charted in the UK, Canada, the United States and Australia.

Record World said of "Don't Let Me Down" that "[the Hollies'] patented harmonies build into a colossal culmination by song's upper end.