Although signs of the failing of Partridge's first marriage were evident as far back as English Settlement ( notably on the album's closing track, " Snowman "), it was some time before the still-married Partridge felt comfortable with Wexler's advances and his mixed feelings about the situation were chronicled in the song " Another Satellite ".

Eight of the album's ten tracks have vocals, and it features two instrumentals, the DeYoung synthesizer showcase " The Message " and Tommy Shaw's closing " Aku-Aku " ( although for the latter, there was one lyric spoken, the title of the song ).

Debussy's classical piece " Clair De Lune " was served as the intro to the album's closing track Ballerina.

The album's closing track, " Here's to the Atom Bomb ", has been compared favorably to the Pumpkins ' biggest hit, " 1979 ".

After just seven weeks, the album's sales were at more than 51, 000 copies, already closing in on the total figure of its predecessor, Your Favorite Weapon.

It forms a significant part of the album's closing song, " Los Endos ," which continued to be played live through the 2007 Turn It On Again tour.

Except for the album's closing song ( which was previously released on The End ...), Nico and her backing band The Faction composed all pieces specifically for the show, during which they were accompanied by optical effects and Moon-themed projected pictures and films.

Prior to the album's release, the song Something Special would be chosen to become the closing title music for the 1987 MGM production Overboard starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, and the piano bridge from the song " Dixie Flyer " would subsequently often be utilized as break or filler music on public radio and public television.

* The 1969 album's closing track " We're Not Going To take It " is split into two pieces, " We're Not Gonna take It " and " Listening To You " / " See Me Feel Me "; this covers the climactic film sequences of Tommy's fall from grace and his final redemption.

The album's closing song, " Anyone and Everyone ", was described as prophetic by Jan Fairley of The Guardian – it was written from the viewpoint of one who knows death is near.

Woomble began a friendship with Scottish poet laureate Edwin Morgan who would eventually end up on the song " Scottish Fiction ," the album's closing track.

The first few seconds of the song are very quiet, and feature the melody of the song " Outside the Wall ", which is the album's closing track.

Additionally, the song was featured on the set-lists of all of Carey's tours, usually serving as the encore or closing number, and making its debut during the album's accompanying set of concerts, the Music Box Tour.

Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant " Italian Plastic ", which became a crowd favourite at concerts and the hidden track " I'm Still Here ".

The album's track " Jim's Blues ", with Plant on harmonica, was the first studio track to feature all four members of the future Led Zeppelin.

The album's opening track, " Immigrant Song ", was released in November 1970 as a single in the US against the band's wishes, reaching the top twenty on the Billboard chart.

Prior to the album's release, the track " This Is It " was available for download on the iTunes Store, as well as for Rock Band.

The album's opening track, " Ol ' ' 55 ", was recorded by the Eagles in 1974 for their On the Border album.

Waits beatboxes on the opening track, " Top of the Hill ", and most of the album's songs begin with Waits's " vocal percussion " improvisations.

Skylarking spawned the controversial track " Dear God ", which was originally issued as the B-side of the album's first single, " Grass ".

The creation of the album's title track was something of an accident ; the band was experimenting in the studio with a recently acquired Moog synthesizer, and the tape happened to be rolling at the time.

Dressed on the cover all in leather, the album's singles " A Little More Love " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 94 Country, No. 4 AC ), " Deeper than the Night " ( No. 11 Pop, No. 87 Country, No. 4 AC ), and the title track ( No. 52 Pop ) all demonstrated a more aggressive and uptempo sound for Newton-John.

The album's only charted single was the title track ( No. 20 Pop, No. 20 AC ).

In an unconventional move, the group shot a video for the album's title track as a promotional tool for the band as a whole and not any specific song from the record.

The title track " Diamonds and Pearls " became the album's third single, reaching No. 3 on the Hot 100 and the top spot on the R & B charts.

The album's five ' acid stamps ' and first track " Ah Feel like Ahcid " may underline this, while ' Smokin ' Stones ' is probably a ' pro comment ' on the contrasting rhythm and blues style of the Rolling Stones.

The form, texture and imagery of this album's first track Debra Kadabra, sung by Vliet, has ' angular similarities ' to the work he would later produce in his next three albums.

In later years, Lennon stated that the album's title track was a sincere cry for help ; he regretted changing it from a downbeat, piano-driven ballad to an uptempo pop song, which was done only as a result of commercial pressures.

This LP reached # 7 on the national charts on the strength of songs like the ballad " In My Room ", later released as a single ; " Catch a Wave "; and " Little Deuce Coupe ", which was released as a double-sided single with the album's title track, both top-15 hits.

" The album's singles — the Bruce Johnston-produced original " Bluebirds Over the Mountains " ( Billboard # 64 ) and the Carl Wilson-produced cover of The Ronettes ' " I Can Hear Music "— won lukewarm attention, with the latter reaching # 24 on the Billboard single chart in April 1969 ; the lead track, the Wilson / Love-authored " Do It Again ", an unabashed throwback to the band's earlier surf hits, had been an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching # 20 in the US charts and # 1 the UK while also scoring well in other countries.

Wilson played and sang on much of the 1971 Surf's Up album and wrote or co-wrote four of the album's ten songs, including the title track, which was a Carl Wilson-produced rerecording of the legendary 1966 SMiLE track.

Finally in 1980, the album's title track, which still remains one of their most popular songs to date reached No. 17.

The album's final track, " Ian's Groove ", marks the recording debut of Phil's son on drums.

According to Norman, the record company dropped several Christian songs, including " Butterfly ," " If God Is My Father ," " Kulderachna ", and " I Hope I'll See You In Heaven ", in favor of more lightweight love songs like " Fly, Fly, Fly ," the album's opening track ", and " Christmastime ', both previously released as singles.

The attention generated concerning the album's cover art precipitated some criticism of the group's lyrical content as well, particularly the Party Music track " 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO.

The album's cover features a withered starving African child's hand being held and dwarfed by a white man's hand.

The album's lead single, " She's Every Woman " peaked at number-one on the Billboard Country Chart, however its follow-up single, " The Fever " ( a cover of an Aerosmith song ) only peaked at number 23, becoming Brooks's first released Country single to not chart on the Top 10.

The album's cover, which " shows lying on his back in bed with his ravishing wife's ample posterior in full view and one of her legs coyly draped over his private parts ," was considered to be too suggestive for most retailers, many of which were reluctant to stock the album.

The album's lead single was a cover of Bad Company's " Feel Like Makin ' Love ".

Although the children are not shown from the front, the cover was controversial at the time of the album's release.

When being photographed for the album's cover, Potger was replaced by Ray – his day job with the Australian Broadcasting Commission ( ABC ) as a radio producer barred him from involvement in a commercial enterprise.

Although the album's cover features the original line-up of Kool Keith, Ced Gee, Moe Love and TR Love, TR ( along with Tim Dog ) is notably absent.

The album's cover has the four main actors on the cover and the back cover has some background information about the four actors, information about the five month shooting schedule, some information about Albee and a brief synopsis of the film.

Hipgnosis's first Genesis album cover was for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, which featured a male model, credited simply as " Omar ", portraying the album's protagonist " Rael ".

The album's cover photograph – which showed the three band members posing with their shirts unbuttoned, on a tropical beach – engendered no small amount of ridicule, with Palmer complaining the group looked like disco stars the Bee Gees.

The album's cover and in-sleeve photos were taken from the film, Tiger Bay, which starred Hayley Mills.

Although it had some progressive rock stylings, it also had a darker edge, suggested by the bedsit squalour on the album's cover.

He is reputed to have given the album its name by throwing a tomato at a showing of the art used for the album's cover.

The album's cover artwork was photographed and designed by Cal Schenkel and shows Van Vliet wearing the raw head of a carp, bought from a local fish market and fashioned into a mask by Schenkel.

Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said, " It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles ," leading to the inclusion of several cover versions after the all-original A Hard Day's Night ; the band's visible weariness on the album's cover is noted by narrator Malcolm McDowell during The Compleat Beatles.

John Lennon complained to EMI Australia at a meeting about the changes, but the cover remained the same until the album's release on compact disc in 1988.

The band's name was discreetly embossed slightly below the middle of the album's right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, " to create ," in Hamilton's words, " the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies.

A painting of the band by " Patrick " ( John Byrne ) was at an earlier point under consideration to be used as the album's cover.

Two weeks after the album's release, Martin was featured on the cover of Time with the title " Latin Music Goes Pop!

The album's cover and single artwork were undertaken by graffiti artist Banksy, with the single featuring a spoof image of the British Royal Family, replicated as a mural on the building.