Pete Townshend - favorite Pop songs
From the wiki: “‘Squeeze Box’ was written by Pete Townshend, and was originally intended for a Who television special planned in 1974. The lyrics are couched in sexual double entendrés. In the planned performance of the song, the members of the band were to be surrounded by one-hundred...
Behind Blues Eyes Written and first recorded (as a demo) by Pete Townshend (1971). Hit versions by The Who (US #34 1971), Limp Bizkit (US #71/UK #18/AUS #4/NZ #5/SWE #1/SPN #1 2003). From the wiki: “‘Behind Blue Eyes’ was originally written by Pete Townshend for his abo...
Pete Townshend Announces New Box Set, ‘The Studio Albums’ ‘Sparkle In The Rain’: Revisiting Simple Minds’ Dazzling Sixth Album The Tragically Hip: 20 Essential Songs by Canada’s Legendary Rock Poets Formative Rockers Anything That’s Rock ’n’ Roll / American Girl Petty served wider noti...
The Who's guitarist,Pete Townshend, supposedly wrote "My Generation," his immortal fuck-off to the elders in his way, on his 20th birthday, May 19th, 1965, while riding a train from London to Southampton for a television appearance. The song wasn't intended as a youth-mutiny anthem at ...
As the Who began the last song of their live act at Monterey, Pete Townshend spoke to the audience, “This is where it all ends.” The climax of the act included explosions and smoke, and Pete Townshend took a swipe at a microphone stand with his guitar, breaking its neck, then smashi...
Well, Riley was inspired by the brave jazz innovations of players like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, and his music of the late 60s was a huge inspiration to The Who’s Pete Townshend. This lineage brought Riley’s experimental ideas to a mainstream audience, forever changing the limits of ...
and impressionistic, more about feeling than precision. the songs of surrender version is stripped down to piano with the edge on vocals, and the lyrics have perhaps more specificity than the original. that subversion, however, does not improve the song at all. in contrast, pete townshend ...
Few rockers are as openly opinionated as legendary guitarist/vocalist/songwriterPete Townshend, especially when it comes to his own material. Just look at his deservingly blunt backlash againstLimp Bizkitfor replicatingThe Who’s 1971 classic, “Behind Blue Eyes,” on their fourth studio LP: 2003...
of their “Flyswatter” single. If you don’t know or remember the original, it doesn’t matter. Mark Oliver Everett aka E brings his usual gravel-voiced pathos to this stripped-down cover. The guitar chords echo a similarly titled song: Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open the Door.”...