Ten tracks and more were recorded in studios in Los Angeles and New York over a 2+1⁄2-year period.

No Rewind contains the Bev Bevan co-authored composition "Over London Skies", "The Diary of Horace Wimp" soundalike "Jewel & Johnny", and a cover of "Twist and Shout" which begins in a slow, plaintive minor key with arpeggiated chords before building to the familiar, rocking major progression.

The second, designed by band guitarist Parthenon Huxley, showed a reel-to-reel tape deck carved in stone.

[3] The third was designed by George Reed, the long-time art/film director for both ELO Part II and the Orchestra.

This edition pictures a man standing at a computer console as it spills out piles of data tape with the words NO REWIND spelled out in L.E.D.