The Rock
(liner notes written by John Entwistle)

Ten thirty in the morning the phone rang on my bedside table. On a normal day the phone would have fallen across the room at 100 m.p.h. But, this was no normal day. This was the day my band, "The Rock" were to sign our recording contract. After eighteen months of recording in my studio in Gloucestershire, and several changes of band personnel, the album was finished, mixed and the record deal sewn up.

I put the phone to my ear expecting to hear my wake up call. It was my manager Bill Curbishley's voice instead. "Are you sitting down?" he asked. "No - actually I'm lying down." I replied. "Good, that's even better" he continued. "You're not gonna believe this," my heart dropped. "The record company got arrested by the F.B.I. this morning, their assets and accounts have been frozen - the deal's off."

I laughed -- but he wasn't joking. I struggled on for a few more months financing the band but it became more and more obvious that the "Music Industry" was wary of taking on a band that had been dropped by their record company on the actual day of signing. We finally decided on a seven week make or break tour of the U.S. The shows were great but no record deal resulted. It would take way over a year before the record company was exonerated by which time the band had reluctantly broken up. But even to this day we never lost our faith in the album. So damn the record companies. What the f*ck do they know anyway? Here's the numbered, limited edition of "The Rock", PLAY IT LOUD!

John Entwistle

Track listing:

The Rock (US) WR0001 Release Date January 15, 1996

1. Stranger In A Strange Land

2. Love Doesn't Last

3. Suzie

4. Bridges Under The Water

5. Heartache

6. Billy

7. Life After Love

8. Hurricane

9. Too Much Too Soon

10. Last Song

11. Country Hurricane

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