History Trivia / TheWho

-->[Roger] called the next day, vey positive about what he heard. I had come up with a broad sweep of material, some upbeat. some R&B influenced, some reggae, some very light in tone, and some introspective and angry. I was surprised by the songs he liked best - the angry, cynical, depressive ones. The music was only partly complete, though; what I lacked on this collection, once again, was a defining context, a theme or concept. The songs Roger selected may have been the ones he liked best, but as a group they were later described as a kind of "suicide note" from me, and better suited to a solo album. I wasn't feeling suicidal at all, but I was terribly tired.

** A band whose image was largely built around [[RockersSmashGuitars their at-the-time-shocking and revolutionary act of wrecking their equipment onstage]] and for wrecking hotel rooms and causing havoc on tour[[note]]The Holiday Inn chain banned them for life from their hotels in the 1960's[[/note]] had the misfortune of being in constant debt for much of that decade, until {{Tommy}} became a success in 1969. This, and whatever "legal matters" the band went through over this behavior became a constant source of pressure for the band, and the group was very close to breaking up many times. It can easily be said, then, that any attempts by the band of, erm, "sell(ing) out", affixing a quirky pop song like "Pinball Wizard" onto ''Tommy'' to help sales, or playing Woodstock [[MoneyDearBoy for the money]] would be [[JustifiedTrope very well justified and understandable]]. The inside fold out of ''Live At Leeds'' shows bills sent to the band for their antics and instrument destruction

** A band whose image was largely built around [[RockersSmashGuitars their at-the-time-shocking and revolutionary act of wrecking their equipment onstage]] and for wrecking hotel rooms and causing havoc on tour[[note]]The Holiday Inn chain banned them for life from their hotels in the 1960's[[/note]] had the misfortune of in constant debt for much of that decade, until {{Tommy}} became a success in 1969. This, and whatever "legal matters" the band went through over this behavior became a constant source of pressure for the band, and the group was very close to breaking up many times. It can easily be said, then, that any attempts by the band of, erm, "sell(ing) out", affixing a quirky pop song like "Pinball Wizard" onto ''Tommy'' to help sales, or playing Woodstock [[MoneyDearBoy for the money]] would be [[JustifiedTrope very well justified and understandable]]. The inside fold out of ''Live At Leeds'' shows bills sent to the band for their antics and instrument destruction

** A band whose image was largely built around [[RockersSmashGuitars their at-the-time-shocking and revolutionary act of wrecking their equipment onstage]] and for wrecking hotel rooms and causing havoc on tour[[note]]The Holiday Inn chain banned them for life from their hotels in the 1960's[[/note]] had the misfortune of in constant debt for much of that decade, until {{Tommy}} became a success in 1969. This, and whatever "legal matters" the band went through over this behavior became a constant source of pressure for the band, and the group was very close to breaking up many times. It can easily be said, then, that any attempts by the band of, erm, "sell(ing) out", affixing a quirky pop song like "Pinball Wizard" onto ''Tommy'' to help sales, or playing Woodstock [[MoneyDearBoy for the money]] would be [[JustifiedTrope very well justified and understandable]]. The inside fold out of ''Live At Leeds'' shows bills sent to the band for their antics and instrument destruction

** Both of the {{Precision F Strike}}s in "Who are you" were supposedly ad-libbed by Daltrey but left in anyway.

-->[Roger] called the next day, vey positive about what he heard. I had come up with a broad sweep of material, some upbeat. some R&B influenced, some reggae, some very light in tone, and some introspective and angry. I was suprised by the songs he liked best - the angry, cynical, depressive ones. The music was only partly complete, though; what I lacked on this collection, once again, was a defining context, a theme or concept. The songs Roger selected may have been the ones he liked best, but as a group they were later described as a kind of "suicide note" from me, and better suited to a solo album. I wasn't feeling suicidal at all, but I was terribly tired.

* OneOfUs: Pete Townshend is a big animation fan. He produced Iron Giant and based on his positive review of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded The U.S. He loves anime as the book heavily covers the subject as well as anime porn, and cosplay among other things.

* CreatorBacklash: Pete Townshend's ''Scoop'' liner notes include a rather bitter comment of "Daft punters." after mentioning how their concerts always included shouted requests for "Magic Bus" and "Boris the Spider".

** John Entwistle himself wrote "The Quiet One", from ''Face Dances'', specifically because he was sick of having to play "My Wife" and "Boris the Spider" onstage. He also hated playing "Magic Bus" in concert because he had to suffer through inordinately long verses where he would only play one note on the bass.
** The band as a whole did not have a good opinion of ''Face Dances'', John being dissatisfied with the increasing use of keyboards and synthesizers crowding out the guitars, and Roger commenting that Pete's material was strong but "the band failed him for the first time". Roger Daltrey has also been vocally displeased about ''It's Hard'', deriding it as a poor-quality contractual obligation album, and saying in 1994 that it "should have never been released".

** The band as a whole did not have a good opinion of ''Face Dances'', John being dissatisfied with the increasing use of keyboards and synthesizers crowding out the guitars, and Roger commenting that Pete's material was strong but "the band failed him for the first time". Roger Daltrey has also been vocally displeased about ''It's Hard'', deriding it as a poor-quality contractual obligation album.

** The band as a whole did not have a good opinion of ''Face Dances'', John being dissatisfied with the increasing use of keyboards and synthesizers crowding out the guitars. Roger Daltrey has also been vocally displeased about ''It's Hard'', deriding it as a contractual obligation album.

* CreatorBacklash: Pete Townshend's ''Scoop'' liner notes include a rather bitter comment of "Daft punters." after mentioning that they couldn't get through a single concert without at least one Who fan shouting requests for "Magic Bus" and "Boris the Spider".

** John Entwistle himself wrote "The Quiet One", from ''Face Dances'', specifically because he was sick of having to play "My Wife" and "Boris the Spider" onstage.

** Pete Townshend [[WordOfGod claimed]] in his 2013 memoirs ''Who I Am'' that ''The Who By Numbers'' turned out the way it did almost [[EnforcedTrope by accident]], as a result of Roger Daltrey handpicking the tracks which were released on the album:

** Pete Townshend [[WordOfGod claimed]] in his 2013 memoirs ''Who I Am'' that ''The Who By Numbers'' turned out the way it did almost [[EnforcedTrope by accident]], as a result of Roger Daltrey handpicking the tracks which were relesed on the album:

* LifeImitatesArt: ''The Who Sell Out''? Rock stars doing commercials? Hilarious in 1967. Now ''de rigeur'' for every muscician, including The Who themselves.

* LifeImitatesArt: ''The Who Sell Out''? Rock stars doing commercials? Hilarious in 1967. Now ''de rigeur'' for every muscician, inluding The Who themselves.

* ThrowItIn: At the end of "Happy Jack," Pete Townshend shouts, "I saw ya!" to Keith Moon. Moon was banned from the studio during vocal recordings because he'd always crack the others up and wreck takes, so he would always try to sneak in, and Pete had just noticed him that one time. It became a part of the song, even when performed live.

* TroubledProduction[=/=]WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Lifehouse'', the project that started out as an idea for another RockOpera but failed and became ''Who's Next''.

* TroubledProduction: ''Lifehouse''.