Too Late the Hero (album)
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| Studio album by John Entwistle | ||||
| Released | 23 November 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 - May 1981 | |||
| Studio | Crystal Studios, Los Angeles and Ramport Studios, London | |||
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| Length | 42:07 | |||
| Language | English | |||
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Atco (US) WEA (UK) |
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| Producer | John Entwistle, Dave "Cyrano" Langston | |||
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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 (his first and last album that was to be released on that label) in the United States, and his own pressing company WEA in the United Kingdom and other releases in different countries. The album was his only solo album of the 1980s and his last album to chart, (although he had tried to release The Rock in 1986)
The album stalled at number #71 on the Billboard 200, which later proved to be Entwistle's highest charting solo release since Smash Your Head Against the Wall and the last album to chart before his death in 2002.
The album features well known musicians Joe Walsh on lead guitar, Billy Nicholls singing backing vocals, and lesser-known Joe Vitale behind the drums.
The album cover was photographed by Gered Mankowitz. The cover depicts Entwistle with an Alembic bass guitar over grainy photos of Entwistle dressed as various heroes.
The album found marginal success in the US. It had charted in the Billboard album charts reaching and stalling at #71. That made it his highest charting album that Entwistle had achieved before his death in 2002.
"Talk Dirty" received quite a lot of 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 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.
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