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[[File:Who - 1975.jpg|thumb|250px|The Who, original line up, performing in Chicago in 1975. Left to right: Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Pete Townshend.]]
'''[[w:The Who|The Who]]''' are an [[w:England|English]] [[w:Rock music|rock]] band formed in 1964 by [[w:Roger Daltrey|Roger Daltrey]] (lead vocals, harmonica and guitar), [[w:Pete Townshend|Pete Townshend]] (guitar, keyboards and vocals), [[w:John Entwistle|John Entwistle]] (bass guitar, brass and vocals) and [[
==Quotes==
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=== Keith Moon ===
{{Main|Keith Moon}}
* My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.
** Introducing himself to [[w:Tommy Smothers|Tommy Smothers]], ''[[w:The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour|The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour]]'', CBS Studios, Los Angeles, September 15, 1967.
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**Interviewer: "The worst?"
**Daltrey: (laughs) "Yes! You couldn’t pick more, four more horrible geezers that make more… I mean, make the worst noise that you ever heard in your life”.
* What's it got to do with the rock business?
** [https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-whos-roger-daltry-says-brexit-wont-affect-british-musicians-as-if-we-didnt-tour-europe-before-the-f-eu-2462954 Response when asked if Brexit was going to be bad for British rock music] (17 March 2019)
* The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.
** [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55721729 Open letter to the UK government, co-signed by Daltrey, asking for exemption from the consequences of Brexit] (20 January 2021)
== Song lyrics ==
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* You think we look pretty good together;<br>You think my shoes are made of leather.<p>But I'm a substitute for another guy.<br>I look pretty tall but my heels are high.<br>The simple things you see are all complicated;<br>I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah.
** ''[[w:Substitute (The Who song)|Substitute]]'' (1966).
* I'm a boy, I'm a boy,<br>But my ma won't admit it.<br>I'm a boy, I'm a boy,<br>But if I say I am, I get it.
** ''[[w:I'm a Boy|I'm a Boy]]'' (1966).
* Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful.<br>Pictures of Lily let me sleep at night.<br>Pictures of Lily solved my childhood problems.<br>Pictures of Lily make me feel alright.
** ''[[w:Pictures of Lily|Pictures of Lily]]'' (1967).
* Every day I get in the queue (Too much, Magic Bus)<br>To get on the bus that takes me to you (Too much, Magic Bus)<br>I'm so nervous, I just sit and smile (Too much, Magic Bus)<br>Your house is only another mile (Too much, Magic Bus)
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* Do you really think I care,<br>What you read or what you wear?<br>I want you to join together with the band.<br>There's a million ways to laugh,<br>And every one's a path.<br>Come on and join together with the band.
** ''[[w:Join Together (song)|Join Together]]'' (1972).
* You can hear it in the street,<br>See it in the dragging feet.<br>The word is getting out about control.<br>Spies they've come and gone,<br>The story travels on.<br>The only quiet place is inside your soul.<p>From tree to tree,<br>From you to me,<br>Travelling twice as fast as on any freeway.<br>Every single dream wrapped up in the scheme,<br>They all get carried on the relay.<br>Pass it on.
** ''[[w:Relay (song)|Relay]]'' (1972).
=== ''[[w:My Generation (album)|My Generation]]'' (1965) ===
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* See Me;<br>Feel Me.<br>Touch Me;<br>Heal Me.<p>Listening to you, I get the music.<br>Gazing at you, I get the heat.<br>Following you, I climb the mountain,<br>I get excitement at your feet.<p>Right behind you, I see the millions.<br>On you, I see the glory;<br>From you, I get opinion;<br>From you, I get the story.
** ''[[w:See Me, Feel Me|See Me, Feel Me]]''.
=== ''[[w:Who's Next|Who's Next]]'' (1971) ===
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* Only love<br>Can make it rain<br>The way the beach is kissed by the sea.<br>Only love<br>Can make it rain<br>Like the sweat of lovers'<br>Laying in the fields.<p>Love, reign o'er me.<br>Love, reign o'er me, rain on me.
** ''[[w:Love, Reign o'er Me|Love, Reign o'er Me]]''.
=== ''[[w:The Who by Numbers|The Who by Numbers]]'' (1975) ===
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*The group's evolution has also been a function of Townshend's personal growth: "Look, rock and roll is above all an expression of the frustrations of youth. Well, this is 1969, I'm an adult, I don't have the same frustrations anymore. My concerns now are mainly spiritual." Nevertheless, the Who remain the Who, and at the core of their music, however spiritualized, is rock-and-roll. They look all white, but their dad was black. They are no longer kids, but they have not forgotten.
**[[Ellen Willis]] The Who Sell July 1969 in Beginning to See the Light: Pieces of a Decade (1981)
== External links ==
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* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fifwxqr5ldfe "The Who"], [[w:All Music Guide|All Music Guide]]
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