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
2002 in British music charts hit the top of the UK charts over 20 years prior with his cover version of "Begin The Beguine". The track was taken from his chart topping album "Escape" which made him the first act to top the single and album charts simultaneously in five years and spawned a No. 3 hit "Escape" and two No. 12 hits by December. Taking over from the Stereophonics were fusion kings, the Chemical Brothers, with their 3rd No. 1 album, "Come With Us". Despite having received success on the albums chart throughout their career, they hadn't received a chart topping single early 1997.