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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Pete Townshend
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Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
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I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
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Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
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He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.
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But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
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As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
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