When it was predicted "Bohemian Rhapsody" would be a commercial failure due to it's length, this record only making number 40 may have had something to do with that. It's even longer than Bohemian Rhapsody at 7 and a half minutes long and was split into 2 parts on the single version.
This was an anti-war song at the time of the Vietnam War, a common theme for music from around this time.
The Animals made their Top 40 debut in 1964 and reached number one with their 2nd single "House of the Rising Sun". In 1966 after 9 Top 40 hits, of which 7 made the Top 10, they became Eric Burden & The Animals with Eric Burden being the only original member left in the band.
Although they were songwriters, only one of their Top 40 hits by that point had been written by them. The first single as Eric Burden & The Animals, "Help Me Girl", also was written by someone else but the following 3 singles were all written by them, of which this was the 3rd. All 3 songs were Psychedelic Rock numbers.
It was their penultimate Top 40 hit and by the end of the year they would be no more. Their final hit, a cover of "Ring Of Fire" would come in January.
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