According to the book, Supertramp were not in a good place at this point. After their first two albums, half of the band split, and their benefactor wrote them off (luckily also writing off a pile of money that the band owed him). They regrouped with Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" producer and a cache of new songs to produce this album... which, as it turned out, saved their bacon and revitalised their career.
A brilliant and relatively diverse collection of songs. It drew comparisons to acts such as the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Genesis and the Beach Boys, and repositioned the band on financially and creatively stable ground.
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