Sad Wings of Destiny two weeks in November and December 1975 at Rockfield Studios in Wales with producers Jeffrey Calvert and Gereint "Max West" Hughes, and Chris Tsangarides as co-engineer. Calvert and Hughes were the main members of the pop group Typically Tropical who topped the UK charts in 1975 with "Barbados", Gull's first hit. The band stayed sober during the recording sessions, which lasted from 3:00 pm until 3:00 am. Mixing took a week at Morgan Studios in London. David Howells of Gull records commissioned Patrick Woodroffe to provide the cover art, a piece called "Fallen Angel" depicting a struggling, grounded angel surrounded
Hit Music The last issue published was no. 439 (5.05.2001). "Hit Music" folded together with several other "Music Week" newsletters. By autumn 2001, a successor publication to "Hit Music" was founded, independent of "Music Week", in order to publish the British Top 200 charts: "ChartsPlus" ("Charts+Plus", not to be confused with the 1990s publication mentioned above), which is now called "UKChartsPlus". Hit Music Hit Music was a weekly British chart newsletter; sister publication to "Music Week". "Hit Music" existed for almost nine years, supplying the official UK music charts (as compiled by Gallup and later OCC/CIN). The founding editors were Graham Walker