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httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h3h–K5928M&feature=fvst<\/p>\n

Today is Pete Towsend<\/a>‘s birthday (born 1945).<\/p>\n

When it comes to The Who, there are any number of songs that could be posted (and, damn, it’d be nice to put up just about any<\/em> track from Who’s Next<\/em><\/a>).\u00a0 But this early promotional video for an early hit, “I Can’t Explain”, is especially charming (and of extraordinarily good quality).\u00a0 It’s 1965.\u00a0 The Beatles are playing concerts to thousands of screaming girls.\u00a0 The Who, meanwhile, judging by this video, are drawing crowds of unsmiling boys who take their rock ‘n’ roll very seriously.\u00a0 And that pretty much sums it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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