@JohnPhilpin Because it’s Daltry singing, I assumed for a long time without thinking too deeply that he rather than Townshend was the one “throwing punches around”. Silly, really: I should have checked the writing credit. Also a bit disappointed to learn that the doorway was in SoHo rather than Soho W1.
The Who is probably the band my opinion of whom has changed most over the last 50-odd years. I loved them in my youth; watched a concert on tv a few years ago and thought they looked (and sounded) like a group of bank managers.
@artkavanagh not sure how you picked up SoHo - article says
> One of the clubs Townshend frequented was The Speakeasy Club at 48 Margaret Street in London’s West End. On the evening of 20 January 1977, following a 13-hour business meeting with Allen Klein, the reco
did I miss something?
Never an overly big who fan my self - so didn’t really track them post ‘hey day’ - BUT they did have some bangers - and this one is IMHO included.
another is ‘the song is over’ -
My go to would be that it would always be Pete that wrote the song. I would have said Roger wrote none - but just checked - he did have his name on ‘up to’ 5 - songs - depending on how you count. So new learnings today.
@JohnPhilpin You’re right, it’s definitely London: references to “the underground” and even the “tube” make that clear. (That’s a relief.) As far as I remember, I heard that the song was based on Pete Townshend’s personal experiences when I watched a tv interview with him maybe 7 or 8 years ago. I’m pretty sure the interviewer mentioned that it had all happened in New York, but perhaps he was making an assumption, based on the two ambiguous syllables. I’m glad to have mentally relocated the song where it belongs.
@artkavanagh we can both take a seat, wipe our respective brows and declare that ‘all is good again’ .. at least in this little corner of the interweb.