Flash were signed with Sovereign, a sub-label of Capitol Records and received support from the label, who were hoping for a similar level of success to other progressive rock bands such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer or Yes. The debut LP sold in excess of 100,000 copies. They toured North America a total of four times, and Continental Europe (Netherlands, Belgium and Germany) once, in early 1972, while regularly playing gigs in their native UK, including a joint tour with Beck, Bogert & Appice in 1973. Flash also did a brief tour of Australia, while making their third album. Without consulting the band, and to everyone's dismay, including Banks', Capitol released the third album under the name "Flash – featuring England's Peter Banks", to avoid a legal challenge from another local band named 'Flash', and to help promote Banks' solo album "Two Sides of Peter Banks" (1973) which was released on Capitol almost concurrently.