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The band underwent further lineup changes during the recording of Street Fighting Years.

Mel Gaynor and John Giblin both contributed to the recording ( and, in Giblin's case, to some of the writing ) but both men had left the band by the time of the album's release, by which time the band was credited as a trio of Kerr, Burchill and MacNeil.

In a new development for the band, various bass guitar and drum tracks were performed by high-profile session musicians.

Gaynor's departure from the band was brief ( he was rehired for the following tour ) but the balance of power within the band had clearly become centralised around the remaining founder members and would continue in that way.