“You Better You Bet” reflects the way Townshend’s enthusiasm for punk rock was tightening his songwriting. Addressed to his new girlfriend, it also hits a note of sly nostalgia when Daltrey sings about getting drunk “to the sound of old T. Rex.” Daltrey, who has compared the song’...
Carradine offered the director “I’m Easy,” a song he had written in 1969 while starring in a national tour of Hair. Carradne’s character, Tom Frank, was a womanizer and when he sings “I’m Easy” at Nashville’s Exit/In, a number of women in the audience think he is singing...