Recording
This is the second album for which Hackett used a Roland GR-500 Guitar Synthesizer. It can be heard on two tracks: "The Virgin and the Gypsy" and "Tigermoth".
Lead vocals on most of the album were provided by Peter Hicks, which were very often backed with harmonies by Steve Hackett & Dik Cadbury. Cadbury arranged the harmony vocals, having been trained as a counter tenor (falsetto) singer . Hackett himself sings lead on "The Ballad of the Decomposing Man".
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