Fact #105897

Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : I suppose what I wanted was to rescue the pop song which seemed to me to be in serious trouble in the late sixties, partly because of the kind of post-psychedelic wetness that seemed to be everywhere. You could write a song that went 'Weee love you, weeee love you.' And it would get to No4 in the charts. I was outraged and desolate because I knew I was too much of a cynic to ever be able to do that. I was a believer in what a certain group of writers like Ray Davies, Bob Dylan and certain moments in Lennon and McCartney, were occasionally uncovering.
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