The Who, British rock group that was among the most popular and influential bands of the 1960s and ’70s and that originated the rock opera with Tommy (1969). Their hit songs included ‘My Generation,’‘Happy Jack,’‘Baba O’Riley,’ and ‘Behind Blu
The Man Who Made Spelling Simple In English the spelling of words does not always represent the sound.So people say /rait/but spell it right,or write,or even rite.Combinations of letters(like ough) may be pronounced in a number of ways.And some words just seem to have too ...
I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
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" hewrote on Instagram. "Whether it was jazz, pop, r&b or rock, no genre of music escaped his genius…Say ‘We Are the World’ and say ‘The Color Purple’ and you’ll understand the range of his music. He was the ultimate music renaissance...
Culture Club (a portion of the band’s publishing and master recording income to Primary Wave), price undisclosed Devo (a chunk of their catalogue to Primary Wave), price undisclosed. Jim Vallance, Bryan Adams’ songwriting partner (his share of songs he ...
The original master tapes for the Who Are You? album.Photo: Harry Goodwin / Redferns The Missing Minutes Lastly, whatever happened to the 15 minutes of middle section that were edited out of 'Who Are You?' (see box, below)? Sitting in the upstairs studio of his Twickenham house that ove...
“Boris the Spider” (‘A Quick One’, 1966) The Who Michael Ochs Archives/Getty “He was a very strange fellow,” Townshend said of Entwistle. “I loved John, obviously, for his eccentricities.” The first song Entwistle wrote for the Who bowled the band over, highlighting his dark, ab...
with California rockers Sweet Baby). Since the members shared a fondness for marijuana, they chose to represent themselves with a Bay Area slang term for spending an entire day doing nothing but smoking pot. In fact, Armstrongwrotethe “Green Day” song about his first encounter with cannabis....