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...particular spun over and over again on the turntable: "Bargain" by The Who. As the music blasted forth, I would listen to Roger Daltrey and pretend his golden throat was mine. In my dream, the brown-eyed girl would sit entranced while I half sang, half shouted Pete Townshend's lyrics: "I'd pay any price just to win you, Surrender my good life for bad, To find you, I'd suffer anything and be glad, I call that a bargain. The best I ever had." Then, charmed by my earnestness she would fall into my arms...
...rock bands never die, they just give farewell concert tours. Can it be true? The Who, those open-throttled apostles of adolescent rebellion who once sang "Hope I die before I get old," will retire quietly like four old pensioners? Is Peter Townshend's flailing guitar now gently weeping for its lost youth? Confessing that touring is too difficult for "old guys like us," seraphic-looking Lead Singer Roger Daltrey, 38, has announced that their American journey-beginning this week with a sold-out date at the Capital Centre in Maryland-is their last waltz...
...tool for insulting your parents or establishing the fact that you are a free person. Kids are too cool for that now." Certainly the music is cool, not in Wexler's hipster sense, but in mean degrees. A go-for-broke performer-someone who, like Springsteen or Pete Townshend, has the temerity to believe that rock not only matters, but matters deeply-is working out of a hot center that no longer exists. Such an attitude even a decade ago would have been a way to reach for the listeners. Now, if it does not turn them...
...figures, early in life--the sure trigger to a Pavlovian response from a Freud-fancier. But Shaw pursues the issue with considerable sophistication. The patriots. Shaw believes, saw Hutchinson as the perverter of the king's wishes. By attributing the onus for contested British actions--particularly the Stamp Act. Townshend Duties and Tea Act--to Hutchinson and not the king, the patriots convinced themselves (incorrectly, as it turned out) that Hutchinson was acting on his own and out of control to oppress the hapless American subjects. As Shaw writes...
...Pete Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco). In which the generative force of the Who covers matters sacred and profane with roughshod lyricism...