"Eminence Front" is a song by the Who, written and sung by lead guitarist Pete Townshend.

"[5] In an interview, Townshend explained: "Eminence Front" was written around a chord progression I discovered on my faithful Yamaha E70 organ.

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.

The picture sleeve, by Richard Evans, depicted a 1930s Art Deco house in Miami.

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.