Despite critical acclaim and support from BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who featured Tomorrow on his The Perfumed Garden show, the group was not a major commercial success.
In 1967, West became acquainted with Mark Wirtz, a record producer who had already created the instrumental title "A Touch of Velvet, a Sting of Brass" (1965).
In 1971, West released a solo album, Wherever My Love Goes, on the German progressive rock record label Kuckuck.
[7] It featured his songwriting partner Ken Burgess and steel guitarist Glenn Ross Campbell (ex-The Misunderstood).
By the mid-1970s, West was the lead singer of a group called Moonrider,[4] which also featured John Weider,[4] Chico Greenwood (later to perform with Murray Head) and Bruce Thomas.