Recorded / Mixed: late 1978 early 1979 at Trident Studios, London UK.
Producer: Terry Thomas and Julian Colbeck.
Line-up: Terry Thomas/ John Anderson/ Steve Gadd/ Julian Colbeck/ Eugene Organ/ Shep Lonsdale.

Lines had broadened our US profile and this was the album to take us to the top. Our caring managers (and Trident Studios owners) decided that to give us the best chance of success we should record from midnight to midday - the graveyard shift. At this time we were being sued by our previous managers so having finishes a session at midday we then had to sit with lawyers for 2 hours to prepare our case. We then got home about 4 PM - had something to eat and then tried to get some sleep before getting up at 1030 PM to get to the studio - most conducive to creativity. The songs were more expansive than before with a full string arrangement for Too Late and some exciting brass arrangements on The End Of It All.

Memories: Terry putting Steve Gadd in the corridor to add tambourine to a song and changing the speed of the tape up and down and listening to him cursing. Watching the cream of British brass players unable to play the complex arrangements put before them and then blaming the studio monitors for being too bright. Eating Indian food, almost permanently, and at an hour when most sensible people were eating cornflakes. Meeting the new Charlie (cover) girl after an exhaustive nationwide contest in the US. She was NOT the girl that looked in any way like the girl whose photo we picked out but we were too gentlemanly (or simply too gobsmacked) to find out how this happened or who the girl we were now confronted with actually was.

Technical Notes

RECORDING ROOM: Trident A Range Console, 24 track Studer recorder, JBL4350 monitors.
MIXING ROOM: Trident B Range Console, Trident Fleximix Console, Cadac monitors, 2x Studer 24 track recorders.

California • Fight Dirty • Don't Count Me Out • Heartless • Runaway • Killer Cut • So Alone • Smiling Face • The End Of It All • Too Late