Living Eyes was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales during a break in the band's 1978 tour of Britain and Europe. Relations between members were falling apart and Sire had dropped the band prior to the start of recording. Their breakup soon followed. All releases of the album were cut from a tape dub of trial mixes as the band never received an official master. In 1994 the original tapes were retrieved from Rockfield Studios and remixed in Australia for a CD only release.

This pressing of Living Eyes is the remix version of the album and has previously been unreleased on vinyl. The album has been remastered and cut to lacquer for the occasion. The front cover is the same as the original release while the back cover has been altered and has the band pictures previously found in the inner sleeve. The new inner sleeve contains liner notes explaining the genesis of the remix as well as previously used artwork.

"Indeed, Radio Birdman was, for a moment, the greatest Rock & Roll band in the world. In the pressure cooker of the Oxford Tavern, Birdman cranked the sound harder and faster and pushed every moment to its limit. Birdman never played at anything less than full intensity. When was the last time that you danced non-stop for an hour and a half? When was the last time that you actually saw a band so overload the sound system that it fell apart on stage? When did you see a band that really didn't give a fuck what you or anybody else thought of them? They never played the same set twice. It was inspiring. It was, in fact, exactly what they tell you Rock & Roll is about but almost never is."   Toby Creswell August 2014