| 词条 | Too Late the Hero (album) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Too Late the Hero | type = Studio album | artist = John Entwistle | cover = TooLateTheHero-Poster-JAE.jpg | alt = | released = 23 November 1981 | recorded = 1979 - May 1981 | venue = | studio = Crystal Studios, Los Angeles and Ramport Studios, London | genre = {{flatlist|
}} | length = 42:07 | language = English | label = Atco (US) WEA (UK) | producer = John Entwistle, Dave "Cyrano" Langston | prev_title = Mad Dog | prev_year = 1975 | next_title = The Rock | next_year = 1996 | misc = {{Singles | name = Too Late the Hero | type = studio | single1 = Too Late the Hero | single1date = October 1981 | single2 = Talk Dirty | single2date = December 1981 }} }} Too Late the Hero is the fifth solo studio album by English singer-songwriter John Entwistle, bassist for The Who. It was released on ATCO Records in the United States, and WEA in the United Kingdom. This was his only solo album of the 1980s and his last album to chart. The album reached number #71 on the Billboard 200.[1] It was Entwistle's highest charting album since Smash Your Head Against the Wall in 1971 and the highest charting of his solo career. "Talk Dirty" was released as a single and also received significant airplay in the US on the album-oriented rock radio, along with "Fallen Angel". "Too Late the Hero" was released in Italy on Jukeboxes where he also performed the song live. The album features Joe Walsh on lead guitar, Billy Nicholls singing backing vocals, and Joe Vitale on drums. CoverThe album cover is an assemblage of photographs by Gered Mankowitz. It depicts Entwistle with an Alembic bass guitar over grainy photos of Entwistle dressed as various heroes. CompositionThe album was Entwistle's first solo album in six years. "I had stopped writing because I thought I was going in the wrong direction with the 'shoo-bop, shoo-bop,' old rock & roll stuff on Rigor Mortis Sets In and Mad Dog. When I started writing again, I went back to the kind of material I was writing before those albums. "Until about two years ago, I tried to stay away from certain subjects. I was getting a feeling from everyone – from the fans right through my wife and family – that if you write about hookers, you must go to hookers, and if you write about drugs, you must take drugs. I got this reputation for sinister black humour after things like Whistle Rymes, when I was getting up at six in the morning to feed my son, Christopher, and then sitting down at the piano at seven to write songs about peeping Toms and suicide cases."[2] RecordingThe album was recorded over a couple of years, during those infrequent months when both Entwistle and long-time friend Joe Walsh were free (Walsh's James Gang toured extensively with the Who in the early seventies, and the two planned to collaborate for years). Critical reception{{Album reviews| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|1.5|5}} [3] }} In the Allmusic review by Ben Davies, he praises the contributions of Joe Walsh on lead guitar and Joe Vitale on drums, but says that they were unable to save the album from being boring. The reviewer concedes that the combination of these musicians would have seemed, "Like something of a dream proposition back in the 1970s," making the album an even bigger disappointment.[4] Track listingAll songs were written by John Entwistle. {{Track listing| title1 = Try Me | length1 = 3:55 | title2 = Talk Dirty | length2 = 4:06 | title3 = Lovebird | length3 = 4:51 | title4 = Sleeping Man | length4 = 3:55 | title5 = I'm Coming Back | length5 = 4:01 | title6 = Dancing Master | length6 = 4:23 | title7 = Fallen Angel | length7 = 4:40 | title8 = Love Is a Heart Attack | length8 = 5:13 | title9 = Too Late the Hero | length9 = 7:25 }} Non-album track{{Track listing| title1 = Too Late the Hero | length1 = 3:16 | note1 = Single edit }} Personnel
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References1. ^[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E1JORU Amazon.com: Too Late the Hero: Music] {{John Entwistle}}2. ^https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-entwistle-the-quiet-one-speaks-out-19810903 3. ^Too Late the Hero - John Entwistle | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic 4. ^{{cite news |author=Ben Davies |work=Allmusic |title=John Entwistle - Too Last The Hero |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/too-late-the-hero-mw0000237260 |accessdate=14 August 2013 |date=}} 5. ^https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT25&lpg=PT25&dq=John+Entwistle+Too+Late+the+Hero+rolling+stone&source=bl&ots=2mjfRCME1x&sig=CMEkkSq8gQihMYv7XYO_iX2i0Us&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iQlBU4u-E5KThQfB84CABA&ved=0CHAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=John%20Entwistle%20Too%20Late%20the%20Hero%20rolling%20stone&f=false 4 : 1981 albums|John Entwistle albums|Atco Records albums|New wave albums by English artists |
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