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Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.
Pete Townshend The Who
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Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
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Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.
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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
Pete Townshend The Who