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John Entwistle, bassist of The Who, releases a solo single, I Believe In Everything, in the UK. It is drawn from his solo album Smash Your Head Against The Wall.Full article:
John Entwistle : I'd been puttin' off bookin' time for the album for quite some time cause I didn't feel that I had enough numbers to complete the album, so I kept hanging back and waiting to compose the rest of the material. And I went down to the office and Cyrano, the guitarist, works at Track because he 's too lazy to join a group, and he decided to give me a push to do the album while I was there. We were looking for a drummer but we just couldn't find one and he was pretty friendly with Jerry Shirley so we got hold of Jerry. He sounds a bit like Townshend. He plays that way because he's seen him so many times. (Interview with John Swenson in Crawdaddy, December 1971)
John Entwistle : The single is more or less a send up of the album (Smash Your Head Against The Wall) to influence people not to take it all too seriously.
The album is all about heaven and hell but I don’t really believe in a place up there with angels. It goes into reincarnation and Father Christmas – although he really was St Nicholas.
There’s partially a theme running through it, including a couple of numbers that I wrote about three years ago. And some that I’ve written while The Who were working on their albums.
The Who’s style has really been dictated by Pete (Pete Townshend) I found myself with a backlog of material, seven which I liked and two which I dropped. I couldn’t walk into the studio with The Who and try to get all my compositions onto an album, especially if it’s a concept album.
(interview in Record Mirror, April 24, 1971)
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John Entwistle : The single is more or less a send up of the album (Smash Your Head Against The Wall) to influence people not to take it all too seriously.
The album is all about heaven and hell but I don’t really believe in a place up there with angels. It goes into reincarnation and Father Christmas – although he really was St Nicholas.
There’s partially a theme running through it, including a couple of numbers that I wrote about three years ago. And some that I’ve written while The Who were working on their albums.
The Who’s style has really been dictated by Pete (Pete Townshend) I found myself with a backlog of material, seven which I liked and two which I dropped. I couldn’t walk into the studio with The Who and try to get all my compositions onto an album, especially if it’s a concept album.
(interview in Record Mirror, April 24, 1971)