Of course these blog entries could be filled with Who songs and at the end I guess there will be quite a few. So how to pick them? Well this one comes to my notice because I was at the Camberwell Market for the first time in years this morning. I like taking my kids Ruby and Remi to the markets because they like looking through the junk. Anyway there was loads of vinyl there. A lot of the albums I already had but a lot of singles there. But no one was caring much about the singles and they were to be found lying sadly next to their 12 inch cousins wrapped in their shiny plastic while some of the 7 inches didn't even have sleeves. Very cruel but very rewarding as I came away with some beauties including the Who's Pictures of Lily. For a dollar.
And because I've finally fixed up my automatic record player from the 70s it's now a pleasure to play singles at home. The needle lifts off at the end of the record. I don't have to run over to the turntable to lift it off before it goes round and round.
Pictures of Lily was another sixties tracks introduced to me by my mate Pete's brother Phil. He had all these compilation tapes of sixties songs I'd never heard of back when I was 16. I thought The Who were all about Baba Riley and Tommy and then I heard these pop songs and I was hooked. The music is just so exciting and Roger Daltrey hasn't got his rock voice yet. And the drums and guitars. It all seems so effortless and majestic and makes you want to play it loud. Real loud. Oh Lily.
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