 "Rooftops" moved away from the raw, two piece feel of "Get It Back" and saw the band experiment with piano songs as well as larger, grander productions using horns and strings on some tracks.Halfway through the recording session they did a short tour of Germany taking in several festival performances and testing the "Rooftops" material to audiences for the first time.In August that year, Alex Chisholm suffered a terrible surfing accident in Cornwall, nearly drowning and breaking his neck, after being airlifted to hospital it was said by doctors he would be lucky to walk again and very doubtful that he would ever play drums again.