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“My name is Bill and I’m a head case!”
While I was in senior High School in 1968/69, I had a friend, who like me was a Rolling Stones fan. I used to call him Mick and he would call me Keith. It turned out that he was also, like me, a Who fan. Happy Jack was our favourite Who song at the time.
Just over two years later I’m doing National Service and during a well deserved week-end break from corps training in the centre of Victoria, I paid a visit to the big smoke of Melbourne.
I travelled there in my brand new Toyota Corolla with three of my fellow recruits. My Corolla had a cassette player with two speakers in the back. However, as I had never had a cassette player before (that was to come soon), I only had two cassettes. One was of early Beatles singles and the other was various Who hits from the sixties.
Now my fellow recruits were country bumpkins, and although the Beatles tape was acceptable to them, the Who was another matter. When the first Who track came on, one of them said, “What’s he singing? Sounds like I’m a boil!”
Everyone was into the Beatles in my adolescence and young adulthood, but there didn’t seem to be many Who fans around.
The Who – I’m a Boy (1967)
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