FLYING DOESN'T HELP

After spending the early years of the 70s making experimental music first as a solo artist, then with Slapp Happy and Henry
Cow, 1976's OUT sessions had reinvigorated Anthony's youthful love of the naive pop melodies of pop radio, the undeniable
excitement of songs. While OUT ultimately went unreleased at
the time, the iconoclasm clouding the late '70s air was addictive
and transformative for Anthony. England seemed to be roiled as
violently as it had been in counter-cultural days a decade earlier;
the UK pop charts breathlessly reflected the changing spectrum
with equal parts aging hippie and prog delicacies alongside new
ascendant sounds: rough-hewn pub and punk rock, plus dub reggae and disco and ska and
Stiff and Krautrock. Clearly, Flying Doesn't Help was steeped in the time, and the original release reflected
a deep mistrust of the corporation mindset. Information was a dubious concept, and connections to any recognizable organization were seen as untrustworthy, so facts like musician
credits were left out of the package, and even Anthony's name was altered (he was credited
as A. More on the album and Tony More on a single release).