The album was engineered by Gary Ulmer and, in the absence of Tony Visconti (who had left T. Rex production duties), was produced by Marc Bolan himself.

The reasons are disputed, but it permanently ended Bolan's attempts to gain stardom in the United States' pop market.

However, Casablanca was going bankrupt around the time and he couldn't find a label to sign him, resulting in this being the last album of the band's to be released in the US.

UK import sales of the Light of Love album may well have impacted the subsequent relative lack of success of Bolan's Zip Gun.

[5] Light of Love was eventually released on CD in the UK in 1995 as part of Edsel Records extensive T. Rex reissue campaign (EDCD 413).