I do not believe we NATA Brats ever heard a single song by the Who while I was in Europe, simply given no air time on the US Post radio stations. This song was from 1967, this video shot at New Year's Eve, it was easily well into the 1970's before I ever heard the song. I heard other kids, recently from either the US or England, talking about the Who but was utterly clueless as to whom they were.
Years later, when I was in college, licking my wounds from my first girlfriend and I went, "Oh yeah ...", when I first heard this song. I understood this song all to well in retrospect. (I was with Mark Lindsay, of the Raiders fame, as he was spinning platters for his weekly radio show, so he had lots to share about the Who as the song played!)
Interestingly, this song was considered a bit of a curse. The song was literally built in pieces, in various studios around the world. Thus the drumming was almost impossible to duplicate, the vocals were hard to replicate on-stage, when performed by the Who it was always mimed!, and the album was dead on arrival in Europe. It was considered too "heavy" ... whatever that means! LOL!
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