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Studio album by John Entwistle | ||||
Released | September 1981 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Atco | |||
Producer | John Entwistle, Cy Langston | |||
John Entwistle chronology | ||||
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Too Late the Hero is the fifth solo album by John Entwistle, bassist for The Who. Entwistle is joined by guitarist Joe Walsh and drummer Joe Vitale on all tracks. Walsh and Vitale produced the album.
It was released at the height of the popularity of the new wave music movement. Talk Dirty received some airplay in the US on album-oriented rock radio, but the album was generally poorly received. Entwistle soon returned to the Who for their last studio output for 24 years, It's Hard, and their "Farewell Tour".
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All songs written by John Entwistle
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Too Late the Hero may refer to:
'Too Late the Hero' was a Single by John Entwistle, Bassist for The Who.
The song is also the title track from his fifth solo album Too Late the Hero.
The single reached #76 in the United Kingdom and #101 in the United States.This would later proved to be Entwistle's only single or album to chart in the UK.
Entwistle was joined by Joe Walsh on lead guitar, Billy Nicholls on backing vocals and Joe Vitale behind the drums on the album Too Late the Hero.
The song is also found on Entwistle's compilation albums, Thunderfingers: The Best of John Entwistle, So Who's the Bass Player? The Ox Anthology, .
Too Late the Hero is a 1970 Anglo-American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Ken Takakura, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Lance Percival, Ronald Fraser, Harry Andrews and Percy Herbert.
In the 1942 Pacific War theater of World War II, Lieutenant Sam Lawson, USN (Robertson), is a Japanese language interpreter who — so far — has avoided combat. His commanding officer (Henry Fonda in a cameo role) unexpectedly cancels his leave and informs Lawson that he is to be assigned to a British infantry commando unit in the New Hebrides Islands for a combat mission.
The British base is in the middle of a large open field, several hundred yards from the edge of the jungle; on the other side of the jungle is a Japanese observation and communications post. Shortly after Lawson's arrival at the base, a patrol of British soldiers sprint out of the jungle and across the open field, pursued by the Japanese. The base commander, Col. Thompson (Harry Andrews), instructs his men to keep well back, out of enemy range; they watch as the patrol are cut down by Japanese rifle fire.