"Even at this stage, Tarney was clearly interested in adult pop–I'm Your Man Rock'n'Roll didn't sound much like rock'n'roll to me, not as Led Zeppelin, Gene Vincent or even the Rubettes would have known it, but on Top of the Pops Tony Blackburn pointed out that Tarney had played all of the instruments bar the drums on their sleek single. That marked him out as different. With an ATV Music publishing deal, he had apparently spent the session musicians' money on extra studio time, and becoming an adept guitarist and keyboard player as well as learning his way around a mixing desk. Alan Tarney was a studio-bound pop fan, one who went for smoothness and warmth over angularity and shock. The introduction of synthesisers into the equation would be the making of him."
Bob Stanley in The Guardian calls Alan Tarney "the greatest British pop producer you've never heard of."
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