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The instrumental version was also used by General Motors, in 2015–2016, for several advertisements of the GMC Denali truck line titled "GMC Precision". The song was played during the opening scene of Miami Vice, Season 3, Episode 3 "Killshot", which premiered October 10, 1986. Bye." Cash Box said that it "rides along on Pete Townshend’s cleanly slicing guitar and the band’s patented synth sound" as well as a "strong bottom" from the drums and bass guitar." Rolling Stone ranked the song as the Who's tenth best song, stating, "'Eminence Front' showed they could connect Townshend's new wave-influenced solo work with the classic sound of Who's Next." In popular culture In a wholly negative review of It's Hard, Robert Christgau gave faint praise to "Eminence Front" as the album's high point, sarcastically noting how the aging Townshend "discovers funk. Footage from the Who's 1982 concert at Shea Stadium was also used in the video. Ī promotional video was produced, shot at a rehearsal in Landover, Maryland, during their 1982 US tour. The single in its picture sleeve was finally released in 2017 as part of The Who's The Polydor Singles 1975-2015 box set. The picture sleeve, by Richard Evans, depicted a 1930s Art Deco house in Miami. "Eminence Front" was scheduled to be released as a single in the UK by Polydor Records in 1982 the catalog number was WHO 7 but the single was never released. Additionally, the remix has Townshend's vocals panned centrally rather than hard right in the stereo field. A more linear-sounding remixed version appears on the 1997 re-release of It's Hard (a live version, recorded on the band's final stop on their 1982 tour in Toronto, appears as a bonus track on the re-release). In the originally released version, there is a timing flaw or a syncopation in the first chorus, where Townshend sings "behind an eminence front" at the same time Daltrey sings "it's an eminence front", with Townshend one syllable behind. It's clearly about the absurdity of drug-fueled grandiosity, but whether I was pointing the finger at myself or at the cocaine dealers of Miami Beach is hard to recall. I hesitate to try to explain what it was about. "Eminence Front" was written around a chord progression I discovered on my faithful Yamaha E70 organ. Townshend has introduced the song in live performances with: "This song is about what happens when you take too much white powder it's called 'Eminence Front '". The lyrics describe a party in which people hide from their problems behind a façade. In the song, Townshend sings about the delusions and drug use of the wealthy and hedonistic.