It was released in July 1981 and on 3 August, it topped the Australian charts where it remained for six weeks, the band's first of two albums to hit #1.

The album was recorded in March–April 1981 in Sydney and produced by Peter Dawkins (Air Supply, Billy Thorpe, Dragon, John Farnham).

They’d been tortured to death by David Briggs, or at least by his studio style, and needed a change.

2 behind Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and ahead of AC/DC's Back in Black making it the best charting album by an Australian act.

At about this time guitarist Brad Robinson was married to actress Kerry Armstrong, later an Australian Film Institute Award winner,[10] and they co-wrote "Easy on Your Own", which was also the B-side to "Errol".