Wild Frontier contains the hit “Over the Hills and Far Away’’ , which reached #20 in the UK as well as a cover of the Australian band The Easybeats ‘ hit of the middle of the 1960, “Friday on My Mind”. The Max Middleton-penned “The Loner” was originally recorded by Cozy Powell for his Over the Top album in 1979 (which Moore did perform on , albeit not on Powell’s recording of “The Loner”),but was substantially altered by Moor for his own recording, thus he was credited as a co-writer
All drums on Wild Frontier are sequenced with a drum machine (something bassist Bob Daisley voiced great dissatisfaction