It's always relative to the way that you did it you know, the excitement of doing it. Shine on Brightly was fantastic to me,' chimes in Brooker. I think we'd written about half of it before we started to record it and the other bits came as we went along. It's so long that we never knew what was going to happen until we finally finished it. It was put together and we played it one night through the big studio speakers.
Thoughts remain floating about the past.
There wasn't any kind of ballroom and concert situations that only existed in America. So we released our album in America, and it got a certain degree of acceptance, and we came over here and played and kind of built something up. It really wasn't possible to do that in England at the time. The only Club that I knew of was in London and it was called UFO, which had kind of the audience that would have liked us. We played there three times, but then that closed down.