It features Ian's young man Baxter on the front wrap. It is quite uncommon for an album to be recorded without the artist life form signed to a evidence label, more often than not it is the other way approximately. The album was produced by Pete Jenner, Laurie Latham, plus Rick Walton.

Davey Payne plus Ed Speight of Dury's aged group, Kilburn Plus The Highroads, were invited to plug absent the noise of the book. Payne, who played saxophone, would wait with Ian for a great deal of the rest of his career. Geoff Castle, who played Moog synthesizer on Wake up Up Plus Make Feel affection for With Me plus Blockheads, was actually a friend of Speight's who was asked in to help out. Attempts to find a record label to publish the finished album were unsuccessful.

Licensing it destined present would be no query of who owned the book or its masters. In 2000 Q magazine located it at figure 66 in its catalog of the 100 Most British Albums Still. Wreckless Eric, for whom Clevor Trever was originally written, meanders and mumbles throughout the latter semi of Clevor Trever, extending the mp3 to nearly twice its original length.

The album's cover art is a painting of Ian Dury by Explode Artist Peter Blake, an old teacher plus long time pal of Dury's.