Tonight’s mystery artists were like many bands of their day with the exception of their songwriter who was not content to limit his topics to girls and cars.  Think you know who he is or the band he writes for??

I found this description in a Ultimate Classic Rock article about The Who’s Pete Townsend who wrote songs about political issues, equality and the new generations desire to transcend what their parents had been. They Write:

Like many of the bands that sprang up in England during the first half of the ’60s, the Who were heavily influenced by American R&B music. But they had something most of them did not: a guitar-slinging songwriter whose aspirations went beyond the usual songs about cars and girls. Pete Townshend first revealed his intentions on the Who’s 1965 single ‘My Generation,’ which became a timeless anthem for kids who didn’t want to end up like their parents. Over the next few years, the songs got bigger and more ambitious, culminating in 1969’s ‘Tommy,’ a hugely influential rock opera. They followed it up with one of rock’s true masterpieces, ‘Who’s Next.’ By the end of the ‘70s, drummer Keith Moon was dead and the group’s classic era closed.

Here they are with one of Pete’s lighter moments from the album The Who by Numbers about which Wikipedia writes, "Squeeze Box" was originally intended for a Who television special planned in 1974. In the planned performance of the song, the members of the band were planned to have been surrounded by 100 topless women playing accordions as they played the song.

Ah, the 70's

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