When Pete Townshend Said The Beatles Sounded 'Lousy'
When asked if he felt nostalgia for the old days Keith Moon and John Entwistle were with him in The Who, Townshend had a whopper of a reply. “It’s not going to make Who fans very happy, but thank God they’re gone,” he said. (Townshend later apologized to those he may have hurt.)
But no one could chalk that up to Townshend’s age and perceived crankiness. He’s been candid — at times, brutally so — from the start. In The Kids Are Alright (1979), you’ll find a much younger Townshend describing his own act as “musical sensationalism.”
In that documentary, you get a peek at another 1966 clip when Townshend spoke about a lack of quality in The Who’s music. And he said there wasn’t much in the quality in pop music as a whole — Beatles included.
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