Following the album's release, the band embarked on a British and European tour. The band hired Jo Partridge to play rhythm guitar on the tour. After their concert at Wembley in April 1976, the band then toured America. In his interview with "Record Mirror", Harley commented on the album: "It took about three months altogether and so much hard work went into it that as far as I'm concerned, it has to be the best I've done so far." Years after its release, Harley revealed that "Timeless Flight" was his personal favourite album from his own career. In an exclusive 2004 interview for the unofficial fan site "Harley Fanzone", he said:   In 2003, Harley commented in the liner notes of the BGO release: "There were magic moments on "Timeless Flight" that I'd never experienced before. It wasn't the most commercial album ever following up the very commercial "Best Years of Our Lives". I understand that. But there you are. We're not machines, are we?" Speaking to "The Leader" in November 2016, Harley spoke of the album again: "I call it the naughty child that became a favourite. It was slightly experimental and I'm playing five tracks from it on this tour, two of which I'd never played live before. I was only 25 in 1976 and I just did what I wanted to do at that age and we thought it was going to be a monster hit and even though it wasn't, I'm still very proud of that album." The opening track "Red is a Mean, Mean Colour" speaks of the concept of communism, and was considerably shortened during the recording stage. Harley felt the editing of the lyrics eclipsed the message of the song. In his 1976 interview with "Record Mirror & Disc", he said: "I haven't achieved what I set out to do with that one. People say it's long - winded lyric, but really I was explicit as I could be. When it started out, it had 10 verses and I edited it down drastically. It's about the concept of a communist and you can't sum up a man in one sentence for Christsakes." The song "Understand" was first recorded by Patricia Paay for her 1975 album "Beam of Light". Harley produced the entire album, which also featured a cover of Cockney Rebel's 1973 European hit "Sebastian". Paay is the sister of Yvonne Keeley, who was Harley's backing vocalist and girlfriend of the time.