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Pete Townshend. " Naked Eye " is a song by The Who, written by Pete Townshend. The studio version was released on the group's 1974 compilation album Odds and Sods (reissued in 1998). Live versions appear on Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, View from a Backstage Pass, Greatest Hits Live, Thirty Years of Maximum R&B, and both reissues of ...
Tom Hull. B [9] Odds & Sods is an album of studio outtakes by British rock band the Who. It was released by Track Records in the UK and Track/ MCA in the US in October 1974. Ten of the recordings on the original eleven-song album were previously unreleased. The album reached No. 10 on the UK charts and No. 15 in the US.
Who's Next is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Who, released on 2 August 1971 by Track Records in the United Kingdom and Decca Records in the United States. It developed from the aborted Lifehouse project, a multi-media rock opera conceived by the group's guitarist Pete Townshend as a follow-up to the band's 1969 album Tommy.
The album cover, on which the band members' bodies are depicted as connect the dots puzzles, was drawn by John Entwistle.In 1996, when asked about the cover, he replied: "The first [piece of artwork] release[d] is The Who by Numbers cover, which I never got paid for, so now I'm going to get paid.
Pete Townshend's voice. from the BBC programme Front Row, 26 December 2012 [1] Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (/ ˈtaʊnzənd /; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is the co-founder, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. [2][3] His ...
Naked Eyes are an English new wave duo [1] that rose to prominence in the early 1980s. The band had four US top 40 singles. The group's first hit, "Always Something There to Remind Me", is a cover of the Burt Bacharach / Hal David standard. The band had subsequent hits with more of their own compositions: "Promises, Promises", "When the Lights ...
Jann Wenner The Who have been regarded primarily as a rock band, yet have taken influence from several other styles of music during their career. The original group played a mixture of trad jazz and contemporary pop hits as the Detours, and R&B in 1963. The group moved to a mod sound the following year, particularly after hearing the Small Faces fuse Motown with a harsher R&B sound. The group ...
Promises, Promises (Naked Eyes song) " Promises, Promises " is a song by British new wave band Naked Eyes, released in 1983 as the second single from their debut album Burning Bridges. The single went on to become a top-20 hit in the U.S. that October, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, [1] albeit after it was re ...