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Certain Songs #1524: Pete Townshend – “Drowned (Secret Policeman’s Ball, 1979)”

April 30, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Secret Policeman’s Ball – The Music
Year: 1979

The Secret Policeman’s Ball was the name given to a series of concerts for Amnesty International in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1979, the show was directed by John Cleese, who not only recruited Peter Cook, but fellow Pythons Michael Palin and Terry Jones.

On the musical side that year were John Williams — yes, that John Williams — Tom Robinson and Pete Townshend, who was still in his post-Keith Moon’s death spiral, and in the middle of recording his first solo album, to boot.

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