Background
The album's lone single "It's Only Love" (b/w "Name of the Game"), was released in December 1986 and failed to make Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. The album peaked at #115 in the Billboard 200 LP charts. There was a promotional video made for the single "It's Only Love." The video made history as the first music video to prominently use American Sign Language. This would be the band's last album with bassist Jon Brant.
The original version of "Kiss Me Red" was the theme song to the short-lived TV series, Dreams. ELO Part II recorded an orchestrated version of the song as well. "Take Me to the Top" is the only track that has been performed live since promotion for the album ended, and is only performed acoustically. It was played in Cheap Trick's 25th Anniversary concert, and this live version can be found on the Silver album.
"Kiss Me Red" was originally supposed to be the lead single from the album in America, but it was replaced by "It's Only Love", backed by "Name of the Game" in November 1986.
A live version of the title track appeared on the 1999 American promotional release "Music for Gurms", along with numerous other tracks and interview snippets. The promotional release was limited to 1000 copies and each was individually numbered.
In the 1998 Cheap Trick biography "Reputation is a Fragile Thing", the album's production is mentioned, calling it a "busy, claustrophobic" production, although the single "It's Only Love" is noted as a more straightforward production.
Physical copies of the album were out of print for several years (with the exception of Japan), making the original pressing of the CD somewhat of a collectors' item.
In 2010, label Wounded Bird re-released the album with one bonus track "It's Only Love (Single Version)".
In 2012, Sony via Popmarket put out a box called The Complete Epic Albums Collection, with from the others a new remastered version of The Doctor, presented in a mini vinyl replica.
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