Fact #100471
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Short story:
The Who are recording Pinball Wizard at Morgan Studios, London, UK.
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Pete Townshend : I knocked it off. I thought, "Oh my God, this is awful, the most clumsy piece of writing I've ever done ... Oh my God, I'm embarrassed. This sounds like a Music Hall song." ... I scribbled it out and all the verses were the same length and there was no middle eight. It was going to be a complete dud, but I carried on.
I attempted the same mock-baroque guitar beginning that is on I'm A Boy, and then a bit of vigorous kind of Flamenco guitar. I was just grabbing at ideas. I knocked a demo together, and took it to the studio and everyone loved it. Damon Lyon-Shaw (engineer) said, "Pete, that's a hit." Everybody was really excited and I suddenly thought, "Have I written a hit?"
John Entwistle (bassist, The Who) : When we started work on Tommy it was going to be a single album but it didn't make sense and so we made another one.
(Source : Interview in Record Mirror, 24 April 1971)
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I attempted the same mock-baroque guitar beginning that is on I'm A Boy, and then a bit of vigorous kind of Flamenco guitar. I was just grabbing at ideas. I knocked a demo together, and took it to the studio and everyone loved it. Damon Lyon-Shaw (engineer) said, "Pete, that's a hit." Everybody was really excited and I suddenly thought, "Have I written a hit?"
John Entwistle (bassist, The Who) : When we started work on Tommy it was going to be a single album but it didn't make sense and so we made another one.
(Source : Interview in Record Mirror, 24 April 1971)