Electronics player Dik Mik Davies had also temporarily left[8] so the band's live sound engineer Del Dettmar was pulled in as a replacement, whilst Huw Lloyd-Langton had departed after a bad LSD experience at the Isle of Wight Festival.

[9] "You Shouldn't Do That" is an extended piece they had been playing live from Crimble's time in the band and he asserts he should have received a writer's credit for the central bass line on which this is based.

"Master of the Universe" was written by Brock and Turner (who sings the lead vocal), although Anderson contends he should also have received a writer's credit for writing the main riff.

"We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago" is a twelve string guitar number with a band jam in the middle section and its lyrics bemoan the direction of society.

A new acoustic version of "We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago" was included on The Road to Utopia (2018), produced and arranged by Mike Batt with additional orchestrations.

Graphic artist Barney Bubbles titled the album and designed the cover and with space-age poet Robert Calvert produced the accompanying 24-page The Hawkwind Log with photos by Phil Franks.

It opens with: The spacecraft Hawkwind was found by Captain RN Calvert of the Société Astronomæ (an international guild of creative artists dedicated in eternity to the discovery and demonstration of extra-terrestrial intelligence) on 8 July 1971 in the vicinity of Mare Librium near the South Pole.

The facts surrounding the discovery of this drifting two-dimensional spaceship have been so distorted by guesswork and rumour that any further attempts at assessment would only increase the density of the fog.Within, the journal entries are from various times and places, including a return to a burnt out Earth in November 1987.

Our ship will fold like a cardboard file and the noises of our minds compress into a disc of shining black, spinning in eternity...Melody Maker reviewed the album in the context of contemporary German acts, feeling that "their instrumental playing" did not reach the same heights but that "they yield precedence to no-one in their creative use of electronics.

"[18] Billboard described the music as "forcefully compelling, electronic and repetitive" and the band "nearly brings to fruition its claim of being a truly 'mind-expanding' rock group"[19] In April 2006 it made No.