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Fact #118086

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Short story:

Pete Townshend of The Who tells UK pop weekly newspaper Disc that the group's ambition now is to have a hit record in the USA.

Full article:

Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : Our ambition now is to break into the American chart. We're all hoping our promotional visit there will do it for us. A film of us is being shown on tv there to coincide with the release of I'm A Boy.

I don't know why, but we're one of the few British groups who haven't made it there yet.
(Source : Disc magazine, Oct 1, 1966)