The lyrics to “Squeeze Box” can be viewed as a playful and somewhat cheeky depiction of a domestic scene where the mother’s energetic and continuous accordion playing, referred to metaphorically as the “squeeze box,”...
“Magic Bus” is a pretty simple song, one that is said to literally be about “a man who wants to buy the bus that he takes to get to his girlfriend every day, but the driver...
Pete Townshend is a musician from England who’s primarily known for being down with The Who and rightfully so, considering that he has run with that act for almost 60 years now, and The...
Even though Limp Bizkit experienced more chart success with “Behind Blue Eyes”, this is a song that was originally dropped in 1971 via The Who, a highly-regarded rock band from England. In fact the original is...
It has been pointed out that both Roger Daltrey, who sings “Behind Blue Eyes” and Pete Townshend, who wrote it, do in fact have blue eyes. The prevailing theory is also that the lyrics were...
It would appear that the addressee of “Let My Love Open the Door” is someone who has developed a taboo to love or is currently under the impression that genuine romance is not part...
On “How Many Friends”, the singer is not chiming in on the subject of friendship per se. His focus is on the fact that as a successful musician and celebrity he has been denied true...
Cutting straight to the chase, the Acid Queen is a character tantamount to say a drug-dealing working girl. And basically, who she is addressing is a new customer as well as his parents. In not getting too...
As some of us are already aware, the 1950’s and so were an angsty time for youth in places like the United Kingdom, i.e. The Who’s homeland. And “My Generation” is an expression of such...
