Once again, E.M.I. had minimal advertising for this L.P. (why bother releasing it then ??) ... and consequently, although it did eneter the chart one month after release, it was only in the lowest part (below the top 30).
After John's murder the entire Beatles catalogue were back in demand, and with this item being relatively new in the shops, sales escalated and it moved into the Top 20.

The cover art was taken from the excellent Alan Aldridge book The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (recently reissued as The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics) and is a painting by John Patrick Byrne which was used in the foreword on page 6. "Patrick" had also done album covers for other artists in the early seventies.

As an aside, during the week of the release of this album in October 1980, E.M.I. auctioned off some of it's studio equipment which included :
The Studer J37 4-track recording machine on which the Beatles recorded Sgt. Pepper. (£500)
and
The actual mellotron from the Sgt. Pepper sessions which still contained the Beatles last set-up. (£1,000 to Mike Oldfield !)