Fact #122067
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The Who play at The Goldhawk Social Club, Shepherd's Bush, London, UK.Full article:
Pete Townshend : Having written I Can't Explain, which was a love song of frustration, I was informed by various members of the Goldhawk Club audience, me being informed by them, these uneducated, inarticulate kids, that what it actually was was a song about their inability to communicate their inability to communicate. Now that's a pretty high concept.
They got it, and I didn't. When they came to me with that idea, telling me, "You have to write more songs like that", sort of nailing the nail into my skull for me to get it - "What? Songs about the fact that you can't explain what you want to explain?" - like they're idiots, and they're going,"Yes, that's what we mean. We want you, because you're articulate and you can speak and you can write songs..." So I was charged with this job.
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They got it, and I didn't. When they came to me with that idea, telling me, "You have to write more songs like that", sort of nailing the nail into my skull for me to get it - "What? Songs about the fact that you can't explain what you want to explain?" - like they're idiots, and they're going,"Yes, that's what we mean. We want you, because you're articulate and you can speak and you can write songs..." So I was charged with this job.