EMI ended up in a bidding war with Warner Brothers to sign the band. EMI won. In April 1974, David, Billy and Stuart began recording From the Album of the Same Name. David picked Alan Parsons to produce the album from a list of 10 staff producers offered by EMI. David was familiar with his engineering work with Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd. The picture of Alan was taken at Abbey Road in Studio 2 in June of 1974.

While recording Just Let Me Be, the band just knew they needed the person who played on the demo to do the guitar work. So they guys hooked up with Ian Bairnson at Tiffanys where he was playing and convinced him to come into Abbey Road to add his guitar work to the track. It wouldn't be the last they saw of Ian.