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Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V4 #90



>Why wouldn't the Who do Cache Cache live just because it was a joke 
>song?
>They did Squeeze Box live, after all. Not to mention Happy Jack (and 
>who
>knows what the hell that one is about). Was it somehow a particularly
>degrading joke?

Well, according to Geoffrey Giuliano, Happy Jack was part of an aborted
fairy tale/song cycle project, " 'a nonsense song' set on the Isle of Man
is a lyrical tale about a reclusive simpleton teased by youngsters on
holiday."   (see _Behind Blue Eyes_, pg 68 + 82)

SteveG