1985 Pete Townshend – Face The Face (US:#26)
“Face The Face” is a song by Pete Townshend. The song is the third track on Townshend’s fourth solo album, a concept album titled White City: A Novel, and was released as a single.
Face the Face was done on a new keyboard, which was a form of DX7, and I was very keen to get something very, very fast and upbeat knocked out, and I knocked out a few sections that I couldn’t play all together. I could play bits of it, but try and do it all together and it confounded me, so I did a bunch of building blocks and said to Rabbit, “I want forty of them” — this is a Mozart technique — “five of those, six of these, seven of those,” and he wrote it all out and played it to a drum loop that we got from a box, and that became the beginning of the track. This was very much a new age type of recording, and that’s why it sounds pretty modern, I think. Simon Phillips overdubbed the drums, we later overdubbed the brass, we overdubbed backing vocals, we overdubbed everything. It was all overdubbed onto Rabbit’s synthesizer playing.[
Album
White City: A Novel is the fourth solo studio album by English rock musician Pete Townshend, released on 11 November 1985 by Atco Records. The album was produced by Chris Thomas (who had also produced Townshend’s previous two albums, Empty Glass and All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes) and it was recorded by Bill […]
Musicians
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Produced By
Chris Thomas
Songwriters
Pete Townshend
Charts
US:#26
UK:# –