But I have to go back

By the mid 1980s, I had drifted away from Pete Townshend. The Who’s last album, 1982’s It’s Hard, had left me cold, and I’d found Townshend’s recent solo album All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes dull and impenetrable, and I’d rarely returned to it. Townshend released his next album, White City: A Novel, in the fall of 1985; the nine-song album was accompanied by a 45-minute film entitled White City: The Music Movie, directed by Richard Lowenstein and released on videotape by Vestron Music Vi...