 Frampton retained British bassist Rick Wills, and drummer John Siomos (credited as John Headley-Down) for "Somethin's Happening" which was recorded, with Chris Kimsey engineering, at Olympic and Island Studios in London, and at Headley Grange in Hampshire, a former workhouse which had been previously used by Led Zeppelin for some of their notable recordings.The Hipgnosis-designed album cover is notable for its freeze-frame photos of the band having buckets of water thrown in their faces.Sales of "Somethin's Happening", like those of its predecessors, were disappointing.