Listen to the best of The Who on Apple Music and Spotify.ĭaltrey, speaking to New Musical Express as the single scaled the charts, said: “The song just tells about a young kid who’s tryin’ to express himself, y'know?” He may have been stretching credibility when he added amusingly: “Apart from that, it was freezing in the studios when we recorded it. After studying John Lee Hooker’s “Stuttering Blues” and encouraging Roger Daltrey to exaggerate the effect in his vocal performance, the song was perfected, now also with space for John Entwistle’s great bass feature. He fashioned it into the style we know with the help of The Who’s co-manager Chris Stamp, who picked up on a stutter in Townshend’s vocal in the second demo. As Pete recalled in his Who I Am autobiography, he produced several sets of lyrics for the song and “three very different” demos. Verse 1 Rows of houses all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me Pre-Chorus 1 All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole Chorus And fade.
The first incarnation was inspired by Mose Allison’s “Young Man Blues,“ a song the band would later perform. Townshend worked on the song, originally as a slow blues, all through the summer of 1965, as The Who toured Scandinavia and Holland. fade Honey, enjoy, its gettin Here Are the Best Female Metal Singers. REMASTERED IN HDMusic video by Nelly Furtado performing I'm Like A Bird. The Beatles were just coming off “Help” and were soon to move on to “Day Tripper“ and “We Can Work It Out.“ The Stones were just unleashing “Get Off Of My Cloud,” the Kinks had just been in the Top 10 with “See My Friend” and the Animals’ new single was “It’s My Life.” All extremely powerful singles, but for sheer, visceral energy and anger, “My Generation” was the definitive statement of the era. Key lyrics: Take me down into your paradise/ Dont be scared cause Im your. To understand just what a powerful statement Pete Townshend’s new song made, it’s worth considering what the fellow heavy-hitters on the British rock scene were up to at the time. The lyrics outline the singer's irritation and confusion with the increasing commercialism of the modern world, where the radio broadcasts 'useless information' and a man on television tells him 'how white my shirts can be but he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me', a reference to the then ubiquitous Marlboro.
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