The Who - Eminence front - YouTube.Įminence Front is found on the album Thirty Years of Maximum R&B. It is the only song from the album that the band has opted to play live after the initial post-release tours. Этот внешний блеск – один обман.Įminence Front" is a song written and sung by Pete Townshend of The Who. He used the same.Įminence Front (оригинал The Who). Townshend created the distinctive keyboard sound using a Yamaha E70 organ with the Auto Arpeggio setting turned on. Whether I was pointing the finger at myself or at the cocaine dealers of Miami Beach is hard to recall. He said the song is about "the absurdity of drug-fueled grandiosity," possibly related to the Ativan detox program he went through shortly before writing the song. The sun shines And people forget The spray flies as the speedboat glides And people forget Forget they're hiding The girls smile And people forget The snow packs as the skier tracks And people forget Forget they're hiding.Įminence" is high power or fame, so an "Eminence Front" is the illusion of such, as Pete Townshend indicates with the line, "It's a put-on.
In the song, Townshend sings about the delusions and drug use of the wealthy and hedonistic. Lead singer Roger Daltrey, vocally critical of the album, described "Eminence Front" as the only song on it that he felt was worthy of being released. The single reached number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100. It appears as the sixth track on the group's 1982 studio album, It's Hard. Eminence Front" is a song written and sung by Pete Townshend of The Who.
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