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Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V6 #111



Various bits:

I like Empty Glass better than White City or ATBCHCE.

I thought setting the movie "Tommy" in 1945 was the final step in Pete's
acknowledging that Tommy was autobiographical.  He was born about two weeks
after the official German surrender, wasn't he?

Interesting point about After the Fire being about rock stars being like
soldiers back from the war, soldiers and young men are a theme in "English
Boy" (your promises to train me are just attempts to restrain me) and
there's always "I've Known No War", more military thoughts.

Horrible (non-Pete) lyrics:

Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man/
That he didn't, didn't already have.
     -- America (possibly pop music's only example of a _quadruple_ negative)

Alan
Be sure to read _McKendree: A Burning Novel of Murder and Revenge_
by Douglas Hirt, ISBN 0-8439-4184-7  (available at www.amazon.com)