From Pete Townshend's 2001 compilation Scoop 3.
Pete: "Bill Price recorded this at my Oceanic Studio on 28th July 1988 on Mitsubishi 32 track digital. I then made several 'slave' reels on Fostex16 track analogue machines for various other musicians to work on. Clem Burke was on drums, Pino Palladino on bass, Rabbit on piano, me on electric piano-Billy Nichols and his singers did the vocals. The members of KICK HORNS developed this particular version of this song which is why it is so brass oriented. This 'second unit' project was engineered and mixed by Ashley Alexander.
During 19881 was recording a follow up album to WHITE CITY. Chris Thomas was producing for an album that was intended to support a series of story videos that I was planning that would have come out very much like that wonderful movie STRICTLY BALLROOM had I the talent of its director Baz Lurhman. However, my father died during the sessions and I had to let the idea go. There were a number of tracks recorded at this time, ALL SHALL BE WELL and LONELY WORDS are worthy of a mention. There is even another song from these sessions with the same title which has a tango heat. The subtitle of this song was 'Real Word', and I used the idea later in a different form as a song for Iron Man."
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12 years ago