The Who in 1975. A lot of water and living under the bridge. Punk on the horizon. Only the band's seventh studio album. Pete Townshend turned 30 during the recording of the album and wondered whether he was too old to play Rock & Roll which ironic in retrospect.
In his words: ' (the songs) were written with me stoned out of my brain in the living room, crying my eyes out ... detached from my own work and from the whole project ... I felt empty.'
The recording of the album had a long gestation and was disrupted by numerous breakdowns for various reasons largely probably fuelled by substance abuse. It's meat and potatoes and poetry and power chords in the way the best Who records are. You can smell the sweat under its armpits for better or worse. That's what they are. It's not always for the tender hearted.. It couldn't be anyone else.Inimitable.
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