![]() I must have been stoned on something! I don’t have a lot to say about that song, but it’s strange, the fans love it because it’s a Bo Diddley riff, and that always worked. One song ‘Magic Bus’ may well be one of the band’s more memorable, but Daltrey couldn’t remember much when asked: “D’you know I can’t even remember recording ‘Magic Bus’. Really, we couldn’t have had any other drummer. I was like, ‘What the fuck’s THIS?!’ It was such instant chemistry. We got Keith, this kid we didn’t know out of the audience, on the drums, and it was like this fucking jet engine starting. ![]() Even from the very first night, he played with us. While Daltrey called it a “German oompah song”, he did note the fantastic drums provided by Keith Moon: “But listen to Moon on that track – in those days he was so distinctive. But… it’s a fucking great record, it really is.”Ī lesser-known song on the list is ‘Happy Jack’, which was also released in 1966 but came with a completely different sound. It was always in there, it was always suggested with the ‘f-f-fade’, but the rest of it was improvised. When we were in the studio doing ‘My Generation’, Kit Lambert came up to me and said, ‘STUTTER!’ I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Stutter the words – it makes it sound like you’re pilled’ And I said, ‘Oh… like I am!’ And that’s how it happened. I control it much better now but not in those days. Daltrey said of the song in his conversation with Uncut: “I have got a stutter. It was a single that launched the band’s career and confirmed them as generational ambassadors. It still does.”Īnother classic song that was always destined to be on this list was the seminal anthem, ‘My Generation’. That was us, y’know – it was an original song by Pete, and it captured that energy and that testosterone that we had in those days. The more we try to explain it, the more we crawl up our own arses and disappear! I was very proud of that record. ‘I Can’t Explain’ is another bonafide banger on the list, with Daltrey noting that the song was really an expression of the rock and roll spirit: “Well, it’s that thing – ‘I got a feeling inside, I can’t explain’ – it’s rock’n’roll. Not necessarily the sound he got – because most of the time making Tommy we were out of our boxes, God knows what we were doing – but the actual arrangements and the ideas, the harmonies and the structures.” I don’t think he got enough recognition for his work on that. ![]() The whole montage of sounds he got in emulating the pinball machine is extraordinary. Written for their rock opera Tommy, Daltrey says the song speaks most highly of the group’s producer Kit Lambert: “Kit’s production on ‘Pinball Wizard’ is absolutely tremendous. In fact, we’re sure there’s one song on this list that he absolutely detests, and it just so happens to be one of the band’s most beloved: ‘Pinball Wizard’.
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