 Lake took on the role as producer, which he had also done in King Crimson, with Eddy Offord as their engineer.The album included studio versions of "The Barbarian" and "Take a Pebble", "Knife-Edge", based on the first movement of "Sinfonietta" by Leoš Janáček and the Allemande of French Suite No.1 in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, Palmer's drum solo "Tank", the three-part "The Three Fates", and "Lucky Man", an acoustic ballad that Lake wrote when he was twelve.