The Who guitarist Pete Townshend launched his first solo single in 29 years, titled “Can’t Outrun the Reality.”
Impressed by the private challenges of the COVID lockdown that started three years in the past, the track was written and produced by Townshend’s spouse, Rachel Fuller, in 2021. A portion of each obtain sale can be contributed to the Teenage Most cancers Belief, a charity lengthy supported by the Who. You may see the video for the monitor beneath.
In an announcement, Fuller mentioned she wrote the track whereas struggling again ache firstly of the couple’s lockdown. “We’d simply moved home and Pete was as joyful as Larry up in his studio, working day by day,” she defined. “I could not do any artistic work and clearly, we could not go wherever. And I actually began to consider how unbelievably troublesome this time period was going to be for therefore many individuals. I wrote lyrics after which I sat on the piano and wrote the music, after which I believed, ‘Oh, I actually wish to file it as a result of it’s actually not a nasty track in any respect – and my singing days are lengthy over.’ So I requested Pete to file the demo.”
Townshend, who performed guitar, violin and lap metal on the monitor, mentioned, “The pandemic years had been horrible for charities. The Teenage Most cancers Belief was created in an effort to take the cash from a collection of concert events on the Albert Corridor yearly and varied different issues, and that had all dropped out. … You’ve acquired a situation wherein anyone in your loved ones or an adolescent has acquired most cancers – they’re being handled, lockdown hits and also you’re not allowed to go and go to them. There’s a poignancy to the entire thing.”
Artist Damien Hirst created the sleeve for a limited-edition run of 200 12″ vinyl singles, which can be on sale on the current run of Teenage Most cancers Belief exhibits at London’s Royal Albert Corridor. It ends on March 26 with a gala night time headlined by Townshend’s bandmate Roger Daltrey.
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