The album was reissued in 2019 by Mint Audio as part of Peter Skellern: The Complete Decca Recordings, a release crowdfunded by fans through a Kickstarter campaign.

After graduating with honours in 1968, Skellern struggled to make headway in a career as a concert pianist and instead focused on pursuing popular music.

[2][1] Skellern relocated to Dorset to live in a cottage in Shaftesbury with his wife Diana, and worked as a porter in a local hotel.

In June 1969, the March Hare released their only single on Deram Records - "Have We Got News For You" backed with "I Could Make It There With You" - both Skellern compositions.

They released a self-titled album on short-lived Philips subsidiary Nashville, featuring three tracks co-written by Skellern,[3] but failed to achieve any success and disbanded.

Skellern's musical influences at this time included Liszt, Chopin, Marc Bolan,[4] Cole Porter and Randy Newman.

Skellern was joined by handpicked session musicians, arranger Andrew Pryce Jackman and a choir consisting of members of The Congregation, a British pop ensemble formed by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway[6] whose recording of "Softly Whispering I Love You" had hit number 4 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1972.

[7] The session produced three tracks: the rock and roll-flavoured "Roll On Rhoda", "Manifesto" (recorded with the working title "Let the Tiger Roar") and "Apollo 11".

Musically, the song incorporates an off-key piano and a brass band, which Skellern said nostalgically reminded him of a Northern wedding.

These tracks were completed with overdubs over the next few days, before recording was paused for a few weeks for Skellern to promote the single release of "You're a Lady".

[24] In 2019, Mint Audio issued a remastered version of the album as part of Peter Skellern: The Complete Decca Recordings.

[15] Upon release, Deborah Thomas of the Daily Mirror commented that You're a Lady has "a few interesting songs and a lot of sincerity, but some are too close to Gilbert and others haven't been developed far enough... ...for all that, I like it".

Writing in Record Collector, David Quantick described the album as "full of inventiveness and Skellern’s many voices, from the seaside postcard melancholy of "A Sad Affair" to the ragtime fun of "Now I’ve Seen It All" [sic]".

[14] Joe Marchese of The Second Disc described the set as "a stellar, persuasive tribute to the late artist", adding "as one of Peter Skellern’s songs goes, "Every Home Should Have One" indeed".