The album name reflects the fact that the finished product was delivered to the record company just at the deadline.

Gallagher originally recorded many of the songs that would end up on Photo-Finish in San Francisco.

The original versions of the songs as recorded with the group including a keyboardist were posthumously released as disc one of the album Notes from San Francisco.

Half way through it I realized that I had read the review of the picture Charley Varrick with Walter Matthau.

But the story is a bit like another picture Joseph Losey made with Stanley Baker, The Criminal.

It's about a guy who is the only one who knows where the money is stashed X years ago, who does his time in jail and gets out, and they are all ghosting after him trying to find it.

It is just a comic gangster-type song that has a good Bo Diddley sound to it.”[6] In contrast to the experience working with Mazer in San Francisco, Gallagher enjoyed working at the German studio: "the studio was perfect.

We brought over an Irish engineer who was working in London who had previously done Venus and Mars (Paul McCartney) and Let It Bleed (Rolling Stones), and a lot of Kinks records.