But most of the songs cited are older, some going back to the 1800s.
“ My Generation,” of course, became one of Daltrey’s longest-lasting showpieces, sung with sting and heat by what Townshend would later characterize, in the Who’s classic 1973 album Quadrophenia, as “the punk with the stutter.” That stutter has a story, perhaps not suitable for the impressionable young today it is a matter of record and curiosity that it was an afterthought that did not turn up until the third and canonical recording of the song, which shot up the charts on its release 45 years ago, in the last week of November 1965 in the States, a month earlier in Britain. (He needn’t have worried, as a spin of Live at Leeds will attest.) Biographer Richard Barnes writes in his 1982 book The Who: Maximum R&B that it took a couple of months before Townshend and Stamp could convince him to take part in the song. That was just the sort of thing that singer Roger Daltrey was actively weighing against, unhappy that the quartet was moving away from heavy blues and into pure pop. The story has it that he played a demo for producer Chris Stamp, brother of actor Terence Stamp, who responded that it needed speed and punch. Townshend first composed it as a slow, bluesy number patterned after Jimmy Reed.
#STUTTERING SONG THE WHO SERIES#
He would frequently disappear into his baffled room, only to emerge days later with demos for a battery of now-classic songs, demos since released on a series of albums bearing the Scoop moniker.Īn early song came about the time the band’s fortunes were rising-and, coincidentally, about the time the band was making the long transition from manic modism to pop art, visually if not aurally. In the mid-1960s, Pete Townshend, mastermind guitarist of The Who, cobbled together a home recording studio that rivaled many of London’s commercial studios.
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