stigwood's also produced the cult rock-musical teen girl 'buddy' movie "times square" (1980) but his autocratic streak resurfaced during this production. stigwood wanted to remove dialogue scenes to include more music, so that the soundtrack could be expanded to a double album, but director allan moyle refused to make the cuts, so stigwood fired moyle (who didn't make another film for ten years) and made the cuts himself. star robin johnson later said of the result: "it was disappointing. it could've been so much more powerful. i'd love to see what allan's cut would've been." although not successful at the time, "times square" now has a strong following among gay women. the music soundtrack became a cult favourite due to the inclusion of many significant new wave acts – patti smith, the pretenders, talking heads and roxy music – and it also became a collector's item for fans of english band xtc because their track "take this town", written especially for the film, was for many years only available on the soundtrack lp (until the release of "" in 1990).