To tie in with the band's back-story, it was marketed as a "lost" album from 1974, with vocals credited to fictional lead singer Erin Grace.

In reality, the album was written and recorded in 2005 and 2006, with vocals by Kara DioGuardi.

It was out of fun that Stewart and DioGuardi "recorded some versions of these songs as if it was the early ’70s" for a documentary to accompany the fictional back story of the album.

This series of events led to the "lost recordings" being released as the album, while the actual Platinum Weird album was never released, except as a rare bonus disc.

[citation needed] All songs written by Erin Grace (a.k.a.