A turning point in Spring's fortunes happened after a gig in Cardiff, when the band's van broke down somewhere in the Welsh countryside, coincidentally very near where producer/engineer Kingsley Ward had recently set up Rockfield Studios.
Ward would later marvel at the "coincidence of meeting a group with a broken down truck in your own home town when you have previously spent months traipsing around the country in search of talent".
In spite of supporting Velvet Underground on a UK tour, plus Keith Christmas and The Sutherland Brothers on various dates, the band broke up in 1972 following aborted attempts at recording a second album.
Moran later worked as sound engineer at Rockfield Studios, notably for Van der Graaf Generator and Robert Plant; he died in early 2011.
Paul Stump's 1997 History of Progressive Rock describes the band as "over-rated", while acknowledging that their sole released album has some merits: "... its spacious and supple musical explorations into relatively sedate artistic territory (undemonstratively poppish motifs, textbook rock solo developments) possess an emotional punch lent by the tasteful use of Mellotron, showcasing one of the most notable deployments of the instrument anywhere on record.