Pop: Lyric sheets
In the month that Pete Townshend's biography, `Behind Blue Eyes', is published and Townshend, Entwistle and Daltrey premiere `Quadrophenia' in Hyde Park - a fan's tribute
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Your support makes all the difference.Peter Dennis Blanford Townshend's
Sulky face stared out at me
Winter, nineteen-sixty-seven
From THE WHO SELL OUT LP
Fifty shillings in old money
Proceeds from a paper round
Track one/ side one, broken shards
Of backwards psychedelic sound
Clanging daily from my bedroom
Twice before I ran to school
Sudden realisation dawning
That the Beatles weren't as cool
Like Hank Marvin's madder brother
Bird-man of the Goldhawk Road
Broken nails and Rickenbacker
Driving amps to overload
Heroes fit for boys in trouble
Spawn a tough and stubborn breed
So I struggled with a guitar
Til I made my fingers bleed
Peter Dennis Blanford Townshend
Gawky in his moddy togs
Never heard my schoolboy tributes
Ringing in the breaktime bogs
Never saw the windmill thrashings
Or expert scissor-kicks
As the clumsy teen pretender
Dogged his Player's No 6
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