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* TroubledProduction: Partridge fought so much with Todd Rundgren that he wondered if the band was actually breaking up.

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* TroubledProduction: Partridge fought so much with Todd Rundgren that he wondered if the band was actually breaking up. Colin Moulding actually did (very breifly) quit during the recording, over a clash with Partridge about a bass part.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Partridge and Rundgren constantly butted heads in the studio.
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* BreakthroughHit: "Dear God," though only released as a B-side at first, turned ''Skylarking'' into this in the U.S. when it became an unexpected hit. The song did the same thing for its parent album when Geffen reissued it with "Dear God" on it.

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* BreakthroughHit: "Dear God," though only released as a B-side at first, turned ''Skylarking'' into this in the U.S. when it became an unexpected hit.hit on CollegeRadio. The song did the same thing for its parent album when Geffen reissued it with "Dear God" on it.
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* CreatorBacklash: Andy Partridge disliked the production of the album, due to his clashes with producer Music/ToddRundgren.

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* CreatorBacklash: Andy Partridge disliked the production of the album, due to his clashes with producer Music/ToddRundgren. He eventually came around, calling it "a summer's day baked into a cake" and issuing the remaster on his own label.
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* CreatorBacklash: Andy Partridge disliked the production of the album, due to his clashes with producer Music/ToddRundgren.
* TroubledProduction: Partridge fought so much with Todd Rundgren that he wondered if the band was actually breaking up.
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* BreakthroughHit: "Dear God," though only released as a B-side at first, turned ''Skylarking'' into this in the U.S. when it became an unexpected hit. The song did the same thing for its parent album when Geffen reissued it with "Dear God" on it.
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