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Re: "Who Are You" Lost Verse
>I think the boardroom refers to the "Tin Pan" location (probably London's
>version, Denmark Street of the Kinks song) where he had just spent 11 hours
>negotiating with Allan Klein for the final settlement of The Who's suit
>against Lambert and Stamp.
>
>The thrust of the lyric, as I see it is, "look out kids, I used to pose
>before a mirror pretending I was a rock 'n' roll star just like you do and
>look where I ended up; spending a day in a boardroom arguing about money.
>But you can't hear me; you're too busy dreaming how great everything would
>be if you were a rock star."
Sounds good to me. I had wondered about that Tin Pan reference before.
Thanks, Brian (as usual).
keets
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