Album: Scoop
Year: 1967
So let’s just start with this: except for Prince, I think that Pete Townshend is the most overall talented person of the rock music era. There were better guitar players, better songwriters, better singers, better producers, better lyricists. But for nearly two decades, nobody combined it all in quite the way he did.
We’ll get to The Who when we get to The Who, but even outside of the context of a band that I’m still not sure isn’t my favorite (along w/ R.E.M., The Replacements, The Clash & The Rolling Stones), he did tremendous tremendous work.
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