My Generation
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| The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist Pete Townshend, bassist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide and establishing their reputation equally on live shows and studio work. The Who developed from an earlier group, the Detours, and established themselves as part of the pop art and mod movements, featuring auto-destructive art by destroying guitars and drums on stage. Their first single, I Can't Explain, reached the UK top ten, followed by a string of singles including My Generation, Substitute and Happy Jack. In 1967, the Who at the Monterey Pop Festival and released the US top ten single I Can See for Miles. The Who's fourth album, 1969's rock opera Tommy, included the single Pinball Wizard and was a critical and commercial success. Live appearances at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival, along with the live album Live at Leeds, cemented their reputation as a respected rock act. Who's Next, released in 1971, included the hit Won't Get Fooled Again. The Group released Quadrophenia in 1973 as a celebration of their mod roots featured The Real Me and Love Reign O'er Me. They continued to tour to large audiences before semi-retiring from live performances at the end of 1976. The release of Who Are You in 1978 was overshadowed by the death of Keith Moon shortly after. Kenney Jones replaced Moon and the group resumed activity, releasing a film adaptation of Quadrophenia and the retrospective documentary The Kids Are Alright. After Townshend became weary of touring, the group split in 1982. |
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| Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE, was born in the Hammersmith area of London on 1 March 1944, one of three children born to parents Irene and Harry Daltrey. He was brought up in Acton, the same working class suburban district that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle. He made his first guitar from a block of wood, a cherry red Stratocaster copy, and joined a skiffle band called the Detours who were in need of a lead singer. They told him he had to bring a guitar, and within a few weeks he showed up with it, and he could play it too. When his father bought him an Epiphone guitar in 1959, he became the lead guitarist for the band. He invited schoolmate John Entwistle to play bass in the band, and on the advice of Entwistle, invited Pete Townshend to play guitar. At that time, the band also had Doug Sandom on drums and Colin Dawson on lead vocals. After Dawson left the band, Roger switched to lead vocals and played harmonica as well, while Townshend became the lead guitarist. In 1964 drummer Sandom left the band, eventually being replaced by Keith Moon. Early on, Roger was the band's leader, earning a reputation for using his fists to exercise control when needed, despite his small stature, reportedly 5'5" (1.65 metres). According to Townshend, Roger ran things the way he wanted. If you argued with him, you usually got a bunch of fives (slaps or punches). In 1964 the group discovered another band working as the Detours and discussed changing their name. Townshend suggested the Hair and Townshend's roommate Richard Barnes suggested the Who. The next morning, Roger made the decision for the band, saying It's the Who, innit? |
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| John Alec Entwistle was born on 9 October 1944 in Chiswick, a suburb of London. He was an only child. His father, Herbert, played trumpet and his mother, Maud played piano. ohn was the only member of the band to have formal musical training. Starting at age 7 with the piano and trumpet at 11, moving to French horn when he joined the Middlesex School's Symphony Orchestra. John met Pete Townshend in the second year of school, and the two formed a trad jazz band, The Confederates. The group only played one gig together, before they decided that rock 'n' roll was a more attractive prospect. Entwistle, in particular, was having difficulty hearing his trumpet with bands, and decided to switch to playing guitar, but due to his large fingers, and his fondness for the low guitar tones of Duane Eddy, he decided to take up the bass. He made his own instrument at home, and soon attracted the attention of Roger Daltrey, who and asked him to join as bassist for his band, The Detours. John's instrumental approach used pentatonic lead lines, and a then-unusual treble-rich sound (full treble, full volume) created by roundwound RotoSound steel bass strings. He was nicknamed The Ox and Thunderfingers, the latter because his digits became a blur across the four-string fretboard. In 2011, he was voted the greatest bassist of all time in a Rolling Stone reader's poll. According to the The Biography Channel, John is considered by many to be the best bass guitarist that ever lived, and considered to have done for the bass what Jimi Hendrix did for the guitar.
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| Keith John Moon was born to Alfred Charles and Kathleen Winifred Moon on 23 August 1946 at Central Middlesex Hospital in northwest London, and grew up in Wembley. He was hyperactive as a boy, with a restless imagination and a particular fondness for The Goon Show and music. At school his art teacher wrote: Retarded artistically. Idiotic in other respects. His music teacher wrote that Keith has great ability, but must guard against a tendency to show off. Leaving public school at age 14 Keith enrolled at Harrow Technical College; this led to a job as a radio repairman, enabling him to buy his first drum kit. In April 1964, at age seventeen, Keith auditioned for the Who as a replacement for Doug Sandom. A commonly cited story of how Keith joined is that he appeared at a show shortly after Sandom's departure, where a session drummer was used. Dressed in ginger clothes and with his hair dyed ginger, he claimed to his would-be bandmates that he could play better; he played in the set's second half, nearly demolishing the drum kit in the process. Keith's arrival in the Who changed the dynamics of the group with all four members frequently being in conflict. Keith was particularly fond of touring, since it was his only chance to regularly socialise with his bandmates, and was generally restless and bored when not playing live. This later carried over to other aspects of his life, as he acted them out (according to journalist and Who biographer Dave Marsh) as if his life were one long tour. Keith developed a reputation for smashing his kit on stage and destroying hotel rooms on tour. He was fascinated by blowing up toilets with cherry bombs or dynamite, and by destroying television sets. These antics earned him the nickname Moon the Loon. In mid-1978 Keith moved into a flat in Curzon Place, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London, renting from Harry Nilsson. Cass Elliot had died there four years earlier. Nilsson was concerned about letting the flat to Moon, believing it was cursed. On 6 September, Moon attended a party held by Paul McCartney to celebrate Buddy Holly's birthday. Returning to his flat, Keith took 32 tablets of clomethiazole which had been prescribed to combat his alcohol withdrawal. He passed out the following morning and was discovered dead later that day. |
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| Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend was born on 19 May 1945, at Chiswick Hospital, West London. He came from a musical family: his father, Cliff Townshend, was a professional alto saxophonist in the Royal Air Force's dance band The Squadronaires and his mother, Betty, was a singer with the Sydney Torch and Les Douglass Orchestras. He enjoyed his family's frequent excursions to the English sea coast and the Isle of Man. It was on one of these trips in the summer of 1956 that he repeatedly watched the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock, sparking his fascination with American rock and roll. Pete is the main songwriter for the Who, having written well over 100 songs for the band's 11 studio albums, including concept albums and the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, plus popular rock and roll radio staples such as Who's Next, and dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations such as Odds & Sods. He has also written more than 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs. Although known primarily as a guitarist, he also plays keyboards, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, synthesiser, bass guitar and drums, on his own solo albums, several Who albums, and as a guest contributor to an array of other artists' recordings. Pete is self-taught on all of the instruments he plays and has never had any formal training. In 1983, Pete received the Brit Award for Lifetime Achievement, and in 1990 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who. |
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| The Who's contributions to rock include the power chord, windmill strum, the Marshall Stack, the guitar smash, and the use of non-musical instrument noise. The band had an impact on fashion from their earliest days with their embrace of pop art and the use of the Union Jack for clothing. The guitar-smashing incident at the Railway Hotel in 1964 is one of Rolling Stone magazine's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock 'n' Roll. |
My GenerationPeople try to put us d-downJust because we get around Things they do look awful c-c-cold I hope I die before I get old
This is my generation
Why don't you all f-fade away |
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Wanderin' Spirit
November, 2015
"My Generation"
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| Rolling Stones and American R&B | |||
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| Beginnings 1962-1965 |
Tripping Out 1966-1969 |
Flat Out 1970-1980 |
Rolling On 1981-2005 |
| Live Stones |
Exposed Mick Jagger |
Riff It Up Keith & Ronnie |
Forty Rocks |
| Muddy Waters | Little Walter | Jimmy Reed | Chuck Berry |
| Willie Dixon | Koko Taylor | Barbara Lynn | Etta James |
| Got Soul | Motown Classics | Doo Wop Party | Juke Joint |
| Favorites From the Record Cupboard | |||
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| Beatlemania 1962-1966 |
Pepper's MMT 1967 |
Beatles Revolution 1968-1970 |
Beach Boys |
| Jefferson Airplane |
Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead |
Grateful Dead American Beauty |
Grateful Dead Europe 72 |
| The Doors | Moody Blues | Pink Floyd | Jimi Hendrix |
| Them Van Morrison |
Van Morrison Into the Mystic |
Van Morrison Back on Top |
Eric Clapton |
| Small Faces | Faces | Rod the Mod | Rod Stewart Superstar |
| Flying Burrito Brothers | Chocolate Watchband | Flamin' Groovies | Electric Prunes |
| Bob Dylan | Simon & Garfunkel |
Mamas & Papas | The Byrds |
| Joan Baez | CSNY | Joni Mitchell | The Band |
| Jackie DeShannon |
Led Zeppelin Mothership |
The Who My Generation |
Carole King Natural Woman |
| M. Faithfull Swinging London |
M. Faithfull Aftermath |
Claudine Longet | Nancy Sinatra |
| Bruce Springsteen |
Tina Turner | Janis Ian | Olivia Newton John |
| Liberty Silver | Fleetwood Mac White Album |
Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
Eurythmics |
| Patti Smith Horses |
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| Rock'n'Roll Time Capsules | |||
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| 1950's Rock & Roll |
1960-63 Twistin' |
1964 British Invasion |
1965 Retrospective |
| 1966 Hits of 66 |
1967 Flowers, Peace & Love |
1968 Great in 68 |
1969 The 69er |
| Woodstock Festival |
1960's Psychedelic Era |
1970's Decade of Decadence |
1980's Big Chill |
| Rockin' Out in the Garage | |||
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| Canada | New York | California | Texas |
| Midwest | Heartland | North West | South West |
| Old South | Deep South | International | Spirit's Favs |
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