Claude says:The Who's eighth studio album came out in August 1978 — Keith Moon died three weeks later, making the "Not to Be Taken Away" stencil on his chair an eerie epitaph. It's heavy with Townshend's Lifehouse obsessions (music as metaphor, songs about songwriting) and layered synthesizers meant to court commercial rock radio, though critics heard the strain: Moon was struggling through takes, and the sessions dragged for months while the band drifted into solo work and self-destruction. You played it twice over six years — once in 2014, once in 2020 — mostly for "Who Are You" itself, never digging past the title track.