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February 17, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Won’t Get Fooled Again

“The simple things you see are all complicated”, he said as he scrolled through Pete Townshend’s internet history.
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November 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Won’t Get Fooled

The 50th Anniversary edition of The Who’s album, Who’s Next is a deluxe edition – featuring  17 versions of Won’t Get Fooled Again. That song plays again and again and again  and again and again and the fools gather  to listen to the next one and the one after that and they don’t see the […]
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September 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Roger Daltrey: The Who’s ‘Tommy’ Orchestral

Roger Daltrey The Who’s ‘Tommy’ Orchestral Polydor Need further proof that Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are locked in a strange professional marriage? Well, after countless new tours as, effectively, The Two, Rog takes the summer off and tours one of Pete’s most personal set of ‘work stories’ all on his own. Well, all on […]
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December 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Who: The What Where When And Why

My introduction to The Who came from that compilation, Who’s Better, Who’s Best. My brother arrived home from one set of university holidays with that and when he brought a new CD into the house he would always give me the sample treatment. He would invite me into his room to hear the album and he’d […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry, The Two, The What Where When And Why, The Who, The Who: The What Where When And Why ·

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June 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Got Live Cos I Want It: 10 Important Live-in-Concert Albums In My Life of Listening

I know I’ve written about live albums before – several times, and I always will, I love live albums! – but I thought I’d give you a list of the ten live albums that I consider the most important. That is to say important to me, these lists are a chance for me to remind […]
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June 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 677

The Who, Live At Leeds (1970) A candidate for the greatest live rock album right? Has to be on any list of Best Live Albums. If, by the end of this, you don’t want to be in a band you might as well sell your stereo, give your records away and fuck right off outta […]
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July 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 858

The London Symphony Orchestra, Tommy (1972) Is this the best version of Tommy? Yes…yes, it is. Or at least, I think it is right now. I’ve had a few different versions, movie soundtrack, Broadway musical version (horrid), and of course The Who’s double album, Tommy. The one that started it all…Something about this one really […]
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March 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Who: Quadrophenia – Live In London

The Who Quadrophenia – Live In London UMe Somehow, stoically, middle finger raised always, Daltrey and Townshend rage on into the dying of the light. Essentially they are now The Two – but in keeping with their combined anger, the way it’s always seemed, converting it into an energy all of its own – and […]
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December 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 1 – Keith Moon

New Yorker writer James Woods wrote an incredible piece about Keith Moon’s knack for cramming so much into his fills, for running across lines and wedging extra sounds in even if they didn’t seem like they might fit. He referenced John Bonham’s very compositional approach to playing – how everything was cut to fit. You […]
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July 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1075

Steppenwolf, For Ladies Only (1971) I’m betting a lot of people only know Steppenwolf for Born To Be Wild and Magic Carpet Ride and figure that’s enough. They may even be right – but this was a pretty record to find. Buried down in a pile of LPs I acquired – oldies that were passed […]
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July 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Guided By Voices: Motivational Jumpsuit

Guided By Voices Motivational Jumpsuit Guided By Voices Robert Pollard called time on his Guided By Voices vehicle a decade ago – and then just a few years ago the band reformed, did the reunion-tour thing and in the last couple of years has pumped out around a half-dozen albums – and Pollard released this […]
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June 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1111

The Who, Face Dances (1981) By no means my favourite record by The Who but an intriguing one nonetheless. Worth it, on vinyl, for the Peter Blake cover – always did like You Better You Bet too, from back in the days when I really only knew The Who via that great Who’s Better Who’s […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1981, Did You Steal My Money, Face Dances, LP, Peter Blake, The Who, Vinyl, Who's Better Who's Best, You Better You Bet ·
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