It was originally released in June 1983, on the label Bellaphon, and is the two-year follow-up to his 1981 album Stop and Smell the Roses.

Deciding that he needed more consistency this time around, he would work with only one producer, Joe Walsh,[1] a former member of the recently disbanded Eagles.

Walsh immediately agreed to work with Starr and they met at Tittenhurst in February to begin writing material.

[8] These sessions were mainly done with a team consisting of Starr on drums and percussion, Walsh on guitar and backing vocals, Mo Foster on bass and both Gary Brooker and Chris Stainton on keyboards.

[6] On 15 April, Rolling Stone broke the news that Starr was "in London working on a new album with Joe Walsh acting as the producer.

[6] "Everybody's in a Hurry But Me" came about from a jam session between the Who bassist John Entwistle, drummer and percussionist Ray Cooper and Eric Clapton.

[1][14] RCA Canada ended up distributing the album in June 1983 in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Brazil;[1] while in Germany, the album and lone single pulled from it, both released on 16 June,[15] appeared on Bellaphon but used leftover Boardwalk labels.

[nb 5][9] The album was rereleased on brown smoke colored vinyl for Record Store Day in 2022 along with Ringo the 4th.