Unfortunately, the band's marketing strategy did not go down equally well with everyone - publicity photographs for their eponymous album with a topless model raised the ire of some radical feminists.
The women subsequently fronted up at some of their university gigs and made things pretty uncomfortable for the band.
Despite this minor blaze of negative publicity, they were given the support slot on labelmate Deep Purple's final tour in the UK and Japan, gaining invaluable exposure with their target audience.
[1] The cover photography for the album was still high gloss and somewhat glammy, but apart from one tiny image hidden on the inner sleeve, the subject matter consisted of less contentious material than their previous release, namely only the band members themselves.
For the fourth and what was ultimately to be the band's final album, Ball Of Fire,[1] the sessions took place once again at Kingsway Recorders.