Early within the twenty first century, thousands and thousands of TV viewers got here to acknowledge it because the theme for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. However on August 26, 1978, “Who Are You” was merely an important new Who track that was making its debut on the Billboard Sizzling 100. It was on its technique to turning into the band’s greatest American hit for eight years.
A intelligent Pete Townshend development with a fuel-injected lead vocal by Roger Daltrey, “Who Are You” is tinged with disappointment, because it was the band’s final main hit to function Keith Moon. The inimitable drummer handed away on the age of simply 32 on September 7, even because the track was climbing the US chart.
An eight-year excessive
“Who Are You” entered the American bestsellers as the best new entry of the week at No.70. Throughout the Atlantic, on the identical UK chart date, it climbed two locations to what turned its No.18 peak. Over the approaching weeks, the track gathered gross sales and airplay within the States and reached No.14 in November, The Who’s highest singles rating there since “See Me, Feel Me” hit No.12 in 1970.
The album, additionally known as Who Are You, adopted quickly afterwards and have become a considerable success, incomes double platinum standing within the US, although The Who didn’t tour to assist it. However, Daltrey was in optimistic temper when he spoke to Sounds across the launch of the “Who Are You” single and album.
‘I don’t suppose we’ve offered out’
“The Who — maybe not as a stage group, but The Who as a feeling, as an idealistic group, which is what we are — is stronger than ever,” he stated. “And I don’t suppose we’ve offered out ever, although I suppose we’re ‘out’ in the meanwhile.
“When you hear people say, oh we’re rich and I’ve got a big house and all that — I can’t hide the fact that I’ve earned a lot of money. What am I supposed to do? Put it all in the bank and live in a bungalow? I don’t know. I make no apologies for being successful.”
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