[5][6] According to Wright, his manager, Dee Anthony, told him that Warner Bros. were disappointed by the album and considered that none of its songs had hit potential.

[8] Billboard's reviewer said that the keyboards were "beautifully played and arranged" but that Wright appeared to be overly focused on repeating the success of his 1975 album, The Dream Weaver.

[9] Writing in The Rolling Stone Record Guide, Dave Marsh dismissed Touch and Gone, along with its predecessor, as examples of how, following Wright's breakthrough on The Dream Weaver, he had "indulged himself with increasing flatulence in a spacy, mystical froth of synthesizers and remarkably poor vocalizing".

[4] In his 2014 autobiography, Wright recalls that "Fear had paralyzed my creative efforts on Touch and Gone, resulting in my being overinfluenced by currently successful albums."

[10] After spending the New Year with his friend George Harrison in England, where the pair collaborated on the song "If You Believe",[11] Wright returned to India to gain a better perspective on his career.