Face Dances is the ninth studio album by English rock band the Who. It was released in 1981 by Warner Bros. in the United States (the band's first release on that label) and on Polydor in the United Kingdom. It is one of two Who studio albums with drummer Kenney Jones, who joined the band after Keith Moon's death three years earlier. Despite mixed reviews from Rolling Stone and other critics, the album peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart and No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart. Album cover The album cover features 16 paintings of the band members by 16 British painters, who were commissioned by Peter Blake, designer of the cover of the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). Artists include Tom Phillips, Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones, David Hockney, Clive Barker, R. B. Kitaj, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Caulfield, David Inshaw, Mike Andrews, Joe Tilson, Patrick Procktor, David Tindle and Blake himself.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-illustration-to-the-cover-of-face-dances-p11031|title='Illustration to the cover of 'Face Dances, Peter Blake, 1981}}</ref> Photographer Gavin Cochrane took a reference photo of each of the four members of the band (Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Kenney Jones) which the 16 artists used to paint on canvases the portraits of each member of the band for the front cover of Face Dances. R. B. Kitaj did a charcoal portrait on Ingres paper of John Entwistle. Kitaj (1932-2007) was a Jewish American from Chagrin Falls, Ohio but made his home in England for many years and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991 – the first American to do so since John Singer Sargent in the 1890s. David Inshaw painted a portrait of Roger Daltrey which features on the cover of Face Dances. David Inshaw was a member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists along with Peter Blake and Jann Howarth and Graham and Annie Ovenden in the 1970s. In 1973, his painting 'The Badminton Game' was exhibited at the ICA Summer Exhibition and was subsequently acquired by the Tate. The late Richard Hamilton, RA (1922-2011) did a portrait of Pete Townshend for the cover of Face Dances. Hamilton was one of the first British Pop artists renowned for his painting and collage work. Richard Hamilton was the cover designer of The Beatles' White Album (1968) and its iconic poster insert, and for his painting 'Swingeing London 67 (f)' which depicted