THE WHO FACE DANCE
With single You Better You MARCH 28 Bet at Number 9, The Who’s ninth LP, Face Dances, enters the UK LP charts at Number 3. With ex-Small Face Kenney Jones replacing the late Keith Moon on drums, the sleeve features portraits of the group by artists including David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake, though Francis
Bacon declines to take part. Pete Townshend later declares the songs – such as Cache Cache, which recalls his lost weekend as a vagrant in Berne sleeping in a bear pit, and How Can You Do It Alone’s encounter with a raincoated flasher – “weren’t right for the band.” They manage one more LP, 1982’s It’s Hard, before Townshend places The Who on hiatus.