>>>>>>Talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation....
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>>>>>Old Roger didn't die before he got old, eh? Instead he's making a small fortune from the CSI shows, and kicking back in his trout farm.
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>>>>>Stll gigging as well. Why don't they all fffffffffff-ade away?
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>>>>Roger? ROGER? Pete Townshend wrote those words, mate. Roger Daltrey was just his boy singer.
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>>>>I wish I had the opportunity to write Pete's obituary. The lead would be, "Pete Townshend, who penned the timeless rock phrase 'Hope I die before I get old,' died yesterday of old age."
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>>>Pete also produced what I consider to be the greatest rock record of all time, "Something in the air" by Thunderclap Newman.
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>>Interesting choice for best ever. I never knew that was a Townsend song. If I remember correctly (i.e. it was they), I loved the flip-side of that single - Wilhemiener is plump and round. Don't suppose he wrote that too!? :-)
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>I don't think Pete wrote it, but he discovered Thunderclap Newman, and produced their first records. Ironically The Who never had a number one hit, but Thunderclap Newman had, with Something in the air. So in a way this was Pete's only number one hit.

He produced "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown in 1968 that was No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 in the US. :-)

BTW Do you recall the flipside below?

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>>Wilhemiener is plump and round, plump and round, plump and round
>>Gertup(?) and Peter and Fritz and Hanz
>>Ask her permission to put up demands
>>All she says is "Nein, nein, nein. No wedding bells for me"
>>Each day they get leaner on plump Wilhemiener, the pride of the Zeider Zee