>>>>>>>>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.
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>>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. :-)
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>Do you know... I still have that album. One of these days I have to digitise my old LPs.

Tell me about it! But can you imagine the man-hours as you record in real-time? Unlike CDs you can't just burn them in 5 mins. I have hours and hours of camcorder tape to bounce down too. But you've got to watch that and edit, as you don't want all the dross, like when the cam was left on, pointing at Aunt mabel's skirt for 15 mins, et al! :-)

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