"Lauder assured the band that this would be no problem since Edmunds already produced several acts for UA, and Jordan then discussed it in interviews about the group's signing to UA.However, no one from either the band or UA had contacted Edmunds, who read in the British music press ("Melody Maker") that he was supposed to be producing the Groovies on the same day in May 1972 that the band arrived at Rockfield.