It is notorious as the reason "Fast" Eddie left Motörhead, more so than the bad reception the EP received.

Eddie wasn't acting terribly thrilled with the whole scenario and finally he said he was going out to eat, but we found him in the other room, sulking with Evil Red.."[3]Lemmy believes that if Dick had not been there, they could have worked through the problems, but ended up exchanging a few words and Clarke left the studio.

Back at the hotel, drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor told Lemmy "Eddie's left the band".

[3] In the book Overkill: The Untold Story of Motorhead, biographer Joel McIver quotes Taylor saying: "..we all knew it wasn't going to be a Stevie Wonder-meets-Paul McCartney production job.

In an interview with Scott Adams that appears on Clarke's official website, the guitarist insists: "..I suppose at that time Motorhead had in fact gone as far as it could.

commented that although "Lemmy has always said that the late Wendy O’Williams was a wonderful person, this doesn’t alter the fact that [Stand By Your Man] is a truly horrible track".