The Who will once again expand their 1965 debut album, My Generation with a super deluxe remastered edition, due out in November. The set contains three previously unreleased Townshend cuts, which is completely surprising as it had seemed they had finally emptied those vaults for good some time ago. One of those singles popped up this morning, with a few words from Pete.
I have often said about my early songs that I tried hard to appeal to Roger’s sense of late teenage machismo. Either that, or I attempted to sound like Jan & Dean so that Keith Moon – who was a surf music fan – would get behind the song. Here, a rather machismo and bragging song slipped away because it was more about me than Roger Daltrey, and certainly not a surf number. It’s about my lack of success with girls when I lived at Chesham Place, partly because I spent all my time in my studio. Roger did very well with girls; it would never have worked for him to sing this lyric. The lyric is also fantastical. I make it sound as though I was turning down girls every day. In real life I was probably piqued that rarely happened. My tape machine was my mistress.
