During the 1970s the popularity of the Searchers declined on both sides of the Atlantic, but they carried on, playing the clubs, touring Europe, America and Australia.

The Searchers refused to fire Billy Adamson but finally went along with replacing him for upcoming recording session.

[3] The album was recorded at the residential Rockfield Studios (most notable clients of the time were Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Dave Edmunds or Queen) in six weeks from April to July 1979.

It is also the first album where McNally took over as lead guitarist while Pender switched to rhythm guitar (mainly the Rickenbacker electric 12-string).

[5] The opening track "Hearts In Her Eyes", written by John Wicks and Will Birch, was given to the band by The Records (their version appeared later on the group's second UK album Crashes) and was released as a single b/w "Don’t Hang On", but unfortunately missed the charts.