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Studio album by Pete Townshend
Released 11 November 1985
Recorded November 1984 – July 1985
Studio
Eel Pie Studios, Twickenham
Eel Pie Studios, Soho
AIR, London
Genre
Rockpop rock
Length 38:27
Label Atco (US)
Producer Chris Thomas
Pete Townshend chronology
Scoop
(1983) White City: A Novel
(1985) Deep End Live!
(1986)
White City: A Novel is the fifth solo studio album by the English rock musician Pete Townshend, released on 11 November 1985 by Atco Records.[3] The album was produced by Chris Thomas (who had also produced Townshend`s previous two albums, Empty Glass and All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes) and it was recorded by Bill Price at three separate recording studios in London, England: both of the Eel Pie studios, and AIR.

The album peaked at No. 70 on the UK Albums Chart, and at No. 26 on the US Billboard 200. The album also reached the Top 20 in five other countries, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland.

Concept
A loose concept album, its title refers to a story (called a `novel` in the album title) that accompanies the album, which takes place in a low-income housing estate in the West London district of White City, near where Townshend had grown up. The story tells of cultural conflict, racial tension and youthful hopes and dreams in the 1960s – a world of `prostituted children`, `roads leading to darkness, leading home` and despairing residents living in `cells` with views of `dustbins and a Ford Cortina`. The song `White City Fighting`, which features Pink Floyd`s David Gilmour on guitar,[3] tells listeners that the White City was `a black, violent place` where `battles were won, and battles were blown, at the height of the White City fighting`.

Biographer Mark Wilkerson quotes Townshend’s explanation for the “a novel” subtitle: “‘Well, I thought, if I could get away with Rock Opera . . .’ Pete told Dan Neer, ‘[that’s] a bit of a gag, you know, to address the fact that I’d been working as a book publisher lately and that if I was gonna make a record and a video, that I should call it a novel.’”[4]

The album opens with crashing guitar chords (also played by Gilmour[5]) that capture a feeling of urban chaos, leading into `Give Blood`, a song with Townshend`s moral lyrics demanding listeners to `give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough`.[6]

Film
The disc also mentions a film based on the album, directed and `adapted for longform video` by Richard Lowenstein. The 60-minute video, entitled White City: The Music Movie, was released by Vestron Music Video in 1985 and stars Pete Townshend, Andrew Wilde and Frances Barber. The videotape also features exclusive footage of Townshend discussing the album and film, and the premiere performance of `Night School`. That song, in a different form, would be included on Hip-O`s 2006 reissue as a bonus track.

Album contents
The track `White City Fighting` originated as a composition written by David Gilmour for his 1984 solo album About Face.[3] He asked Townshend to supply lyrics, but felt that he could not relate to them, so Townshend used the song instead with Gilmour playing guitar.[3] Gilmour sent the same tune to Roy Harper, whose lyrics had the same effect as Townshend`s on Gilmour.[3] Harper used the result, `Hope`, which has a markedly slower tempo, on his 1985 album Whatever Happened to Jugula? with Harper`s son Nick on guitar.[3]

All tracks are written by Pete Townshend, except where noted.

Side one
No. Title Length
1. `Give Blood` 5:44
2. `Brilliant Blues` 3:06
3. `Face the Face` 5:51
4. `Hiding Out` 3:00
5. `Secondhand Love` 4:12
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
6. `Crashing by Design` 3:14
7. `I Am Secure` 4:00
8. `White City Fighting`
David GilmourTownshend
4:40
9. `Come to Mama` 4:40
Total length: 38:27

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the White City: A Novel liner notes.[10]

Musicians

Pete Townshend – vocals; guitar
John `Rabbit` Bundrick – keyboards
Tony Butler, Phil Chen, Chucho Merchan, Pino Palladino & Steve Barnacle – bass guitars
Mark Brzezicki, Simon Phillips – drums
Clem Burke – drums (tracks 2, 5)[11]
David Gilmour – guitar (tracks 1, 8)
Peter Hope-Evans – harmonica
Kick Horns: Simon Clarke, Roddy Lorimer, Tim Sanders, Peter Thoms
Ewan Stewart – voice (spoken word)
Emma Townshend, Jackie Challenor, Mae McKenna, & Lorenza Johnson – backing vocals
Justine Frischmann – backing vocals on `Night School`[12]
Technical

Chris Thomas – producer
Bill Price – recording
Chris Ludwinski, Dave Edwards, & Jules Bowen – assistant engineers
Artwork

Richard Evans – art direction; cover design; inner sleeve photography
Alex Henderson – front cover photography
Malcolm Heywood – inner sleeve photography